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@Barbanera I have no idea how it would sound in the version of MARIANO Apicella, which I don't even consider, TONINO is the father, a "famous" tear-jerking melodic singer. I believe he is more suited than his son to cover "Song to the Siren."

Don’t provoke Bartleboom because he openly threatened us at no. 13. I’ll list for you the 5 groups known from Starblazer: these guys, the legendary and seminal Wolfsbane by Blaze, Dream Theater, Cradle of Filth, and Sabbath but without Ozzy.

Well done Blackdog, even if in the first part you were a tad too bucolic for my tastes, the album had little success because the further free jazz turn bewildered the "fans" who adored the folk of the early Buckley. "Song to the Siren" is so beautiful that it would still be so even in Tonino Apicella's version, and I remember one done by the Cocteau Twins (for the This Mortal Coil project by Ivo Watts-Russell) that was truly outstanding (though never as much as the original). Get your hands on the bootleg "Return of the Starsailor" from four years later; it's worth it in all five senses.

Already in your review of George Best, I commented on my inability to make it to the end of the album without yawning, with the risk (if listened to in the car) of receiving a fine from the traffic police for overload caused by an excess of boredom. Not so much because of the beautiful exuberance of the Wedding who bring forth a melodic, guitar-heavy punk, but because of the extremely monotonous voice and the guitar riffs that resemble each other too much. Listening to just two or three songs (for example, the 9 minutes of the magnificent "Take me!") they are an extraordinary band, but over the long haul, I can't take them. It might be my flaw. Anyway, Albini is already the engineer on 4-5 tracks on this album.

"I don’t see why we have to defend this Spartacus at all,"... instead, I don’t see why we have to throw it down the toilet like you do, Poletti. Or is the fact that Kubrick disavowed it (always for some reason) a cause for disgust and repulsion towards the film?

@vellutogrigio: "overall I agree with him also on the value of the film, which, however, deserves a different rating for me" ...classic Gialappa's Band.

Percy says that Kubrick did it just for the money. I would love to see a young thirty-something director with only a couple of films under their belt like Kubrick refuse the opportunity and the challenge (beyond the money) of shooting their first color film in 70mm, with ten thousand extras to direct in the battle scenes and with great actors like Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton.

Two to Spartacus... which is still a model for films like Gladiator or Braveheart, with battle scenes divided between the organized march of the Roman legions and the chaos of hand-to-hand combat, the Marxist screenplay of class struggle by the communist Dalton Trumbo, Kubrick's difficulty in directing a film written by others that nonetheless reveals his mark. The very scene of the fight between Woody Stroode and Douglas makes clear how the vote of poletti for the film has been mishandled. If Kubrick produced a masterpiece like Barry Lyndon, he owes it also to the experience of Spartacus, which remains a fascinating film for me, seen at twelve as well as at forty.

@gummo, what's the problem? You're not ruining any party; I told number 50 that this writing is the CHEWED UP result of what I've RECONSIDERED about this film (I originally gave it a 4) from its release to today, including the reviews and comments and critiques of a million other people before me. At 8:30 one morning, I wrote this stuff in half an hour without any pretensions of being praised or original; in fact, it’s clear that it was written and posted in a rush because it’s full of punctuation errors without even checking it. As for the spit issue, Alessio is right about the bus matter, but it came to me while rehashing "Take the Money and Run" by Woody Allen, when Virgil introduces the accomplices of the robbery by illustrating their crime "curriculum," among which, besides the spitting in subway cars, had me in stitches was "obscene proposals to a postman."

I don't think Chirurgh would give Poletti the chance to play it heads or tails.