On the weekend, Moira and I wanted to go to see the movie, "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" which we had heard about. It had a nice review in The SMH, and the gang from "At The Movies" said nice things about it too.
A rollicking adaptation of the classic 18th Century comic novel THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN, by Laurence Sterne. Set on a modern film set complete with insecure actors, scandal-hunting reporters and balky investors, the story folows the fortunes of one blood and one professional family, revealing the calamities, crises and flirtations that transcend the centuries...
Margaret: David:
But when we were checking movies times, it was no longer playing in the cinemas. What The??
So, I did what any self respecting geek consumer would do, I went over to Amazon and ordered it on DVD. It arrived yesterday.
The Long Tail Rules!
Oh, while I was at Amazon, I got a bunch of other DVDS, as one does.
My order consisted of:
Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story
Syriana
Monk - Season Four
Carnivale - The Complete Second Season
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
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