AnneElicious

Thanks to Lars and the Real Girl I’ve rediscovered this classic:

Oh the film isn’t bad either! I probably would have loved it only I watched it the same day I finally saw Once for the first time and fell head over heels in love with it, and everything else just seems mundane in comparison.

.. but Bertie announced his resignation date an hour ago - 6th May.

EDIT: Bertie’s speech in full on rte.ie

The Beeb’s news website has a list of famous videos on t’interweb including Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up, Ok Go’s treadmill video, Beyonce falling on her face (OUCH!) and this:

“In 2005, a film-making body in New York issued a challenge to America’s assistant film editors - take an existing movie trailer, and re-edit it in an entirely different genre. The winner was 25-year-old Robert Ryang, who took Stanley Kubrick’s psychological horror The Shining and turned it into a breezy romantic comedy, set to the tune of Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill. So so good. I love how it shows how editing and music can completely change the tone of a film.”

They also list this wondeful piece of sunshine from the legend that is Will Ferrell