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Post by maxx02 on May 2, 2007 17:02:16 GMT
Okay, I'll fess up. I've been trying to crack this for 2 weeks. I have a copy. I have a login. the problem is the the DRM restricts it to play by region so it's not as simple as saving it and just sharing it around. The DRM has to be broken. If someone in the UK feels technically literate I can tell you how to do it and share, but you must be able to play it the first time.
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Post by quoll on May 2, 2007 17:29:54 GMT
Ah, but she isnt in Aus!
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Post by maxx02 on May 2, 2007 17:36:55 GMT
splendid! and by the way, I greatly admire your dedication. You get to the UK and the first thing you do is download Victoria Station and figure out how to get it to work. you have your priorities in order.  |
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Post by quoll on May 2, 2007 21:04:09 GMT
Well not actually the first thing but I needed to use the DS' credit card and computer and he will be out of circulation from Sunday so I had to move fast!
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Post by mcr5137 on May 2, 2007 23:15:19 GMT
Geez I hope this works! It took me forever to find someone in the UK willing to even try it for me! Of course, I had to send it to Maxx immediately because I couldn't get it to work.
Go Quoll! Go Quoll! Go Quoll!!!
(Good luck, I really hope this works!)
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Post by ree on May 3, 2007 4:45:41 GMT
We are all rooting for you Quoll!
And I hope you are having a marvelous time with your
marvelous DS and the rest of your UK family!!!
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Post by maxx02 on May 6, 2007 22:32:15 GMT
[glow=yellow,2,300]to various and sundry, let's take the above part of the conversation to PM from this point forward then shall we?[/glow]
Well this is Harold Pinter. If you know his work you'll know what to expect. The feel is a combination of someone slipping into complete insanity vs. alien abduction with a little hyperbole in between.
Rufus is a cab driver in London sent by his dispatcher who apparently does not know him, to collect a fare at Victoria Station. Only Rufus can't go because Rufus already has a fare. A woman who has fallen asleep in the back seat and not given him specific instructions about where to take her. So he has chosen to park next to The Crystal Palace until she awakens when he vows he will ask her to marry him as he's fallen in love with her. Never mind that the Crystal Palace burned in 1936. Not for Rufus.
VS is an interesting little bit of drama about the nature of reality and how we perceive our place in it. Rufus must have loved it because you never see his face until the very last frames--you see bits of him, eyes, mouth, hands, but not his full face. Your only real connection, like the dispatcher is through that wonderfully expressive voice.
I loved it. I'm a theatre geek. I thought it was a very ingenious use of film and theatre. I like the ambiguity at the end and not understanding if the driver has actually disappeared into the past or if he's lost his mind. I like the ever increasing hysteria of the dispatcher. I like the backdrop of modern day London and the allusion that the cabbie has somehow broken with reality to travel back into the past--there is a lovely shot of a radio tower and the crystal palace sort of superimposed over each other.
another grown-up Rufus pick, complicated, expressive, romantic, left of center and a bit dark. There seems to be a pattern emerging here. ;D
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Post by ukelelehip on May 7, 2007 2:44:11 GMT
LOVED it. Robert Glenister kicks total ass btw. What a great actor. And an amazing directorial job by Doug Hodge (the doctor in Middlemarch). Great great great.
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Post by sevensisters on May 7, 2007 3:00:22 GMT
This sounds so intriguing! I hope we all get a chance to see it eventually.
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Post by catdishy on Jan 3, 2008 8:27:55 GMT
Did anyone ever get the entire film? I've seen 15 minutes, thanks to Ree, and would like to see the entire film, when possible.
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Post by quoll on Jan 3, 2008 11:49:42 GMT
That is the entire film!
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Post by Tinkerdog on Jan 3, 2008 19:13:38 GMT
You guys just make me laugh - just the way it is written is really funny.
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Post by catdishy on Jan 3, 2008 21:18:54 GMT
Are you serious?THe entire film is only 15 minutes long?
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Post by megagem on Jun 16, 2011 22:54:25 GMT
Has anyone else been able to get anything on this since the last posting? I'd love to see it, but it's still not available on amazon or youtube  |
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Post by nell on Jun 17, 2011 22:30:01 GMT
Megagem I've never been able to find this anywhere either I just found out a few minutes ago that Victoria station is coming back on stage at the young vic theatre for a short run in October this year, together with One For The Road. The cast is still to be announced. I know I'm dreaming but wouldn't it be nice? Here's the link: www.youngvic.org/whats-on/one-for-the-road-victoria-station |
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