Monday 7 January 2013

TV

Animal Antics
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Britain's Brightest
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Elementary
1x06 Flight Risk

Films

A Trip to the Moon (1902)
[#2a in 100 Films in a Year 2013]
aka Le Voyage dans la lune, Georges Méliès' seminal sci-fi short, in the 2011 restoration of a rare hand-coloured print. And to accompany it:

The Extraordinary Voyage (2011)
[#3 in 100 Films in a Year 2013]
Shown alongside the restored short (and included on Park Circus' UK DVD released last November), this just-over-60-minute documentary describes Méliès' life and work (with specific focus on A Trip to the Moon), before moving on to the cover the various attempts at restoring his most famous work.