Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Tommy Lee Jones Soren Kierkegaard said “Purity of heart is to will one thing”. Understanding what he meant is to not ask what the ‘one thing’ is. Or at least to realise that when he said it was ‘the good’ he was starting a search for spiritual […]
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet A Scanner Darkly – Richard Linklater (BBC Prize Review with philosophical coda) Consciousness is the last mystery. It is the holy grail of brain scientists and K2 to philosophers. If consciousness is the substance of this mystery, personal identity is its form. The conceptual, even spiritual, genesis of Philip K Dick’s book upon which […]
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Holiday – Nancy Meyers Meet the Impossibles. The impossibly gorgeous Cameron Diaz, has been impossibly jilted (is there a man on earth who would? But then is there a man on earth who wouldn’t?) and seeks a man-free holiday by exchanging houses with impossibly feistily sexy Kate Winslett whose long-term lover neglected to […]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Singin’ In The Rain – Stanley Donen and Gene kelly My wife has my funeral wishes. She will just need a movie-loving, liberal vicar. So to speak. At the end of what I expect to be at best, a modestly attended event: large screen, good sound, no popcorn – not that liberal a vicar; […]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
TweetThe Scarf You are dust, seeding the careless wind the form of absence is your presence now yet your living essence lingers, real to sense in the fibres of your scarf I touch, caress, and breathe you in, fold you round me in unfriendly sleep this sense of you, as ever stubborn, clings to this […]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Riding Giants – Stacey Peralta What is your ultimate image of man in harmony with nature? Until man’s inventiveness contrives a way for him to fly with only the natural force of the wind to support him, Riding Giants offers perhaps the most compelling image to date: surfer Laird Hamilton riding waves as high […]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Walk The Line – James Mangold Screen biographies of celebrities are about dreams. Ours. The accepted constraints of the genre are not cinematic. They are imposed by our expectations. And this is about a curious form of possession. The sense that fans ‘know’ you and have the right to certain expectations of you, must […]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Da Vinci code – Ron Howard – Dan Brown’s mystical mystery tour Crossword puzzles inspire considerable devotion and commitment. In some. TDVC is pretty much a lock for such cryptic captives. Each clue of a crossword has a certain logic that when cracked, satisfies. But the only connection between the various clues is […]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet “5 x 2” – Director Francois Ozon Sexually, more Catch-22 than 5 x 2: in this film you can have sex when you want it – but not with the person you want; or you can have sex with the person you want – but not when you want it. I’m not quite sure […]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet A Good Year – Ridley Scott (BBC Prize Review) Russell Crowe doesn’t do charm. It was perverse therefore for Ridley Scott to cast him in a film based upon Peter Mayle’s book of the same name. The book at best was a light, slight, quizzical account of the travails of a dropped out advertising […]
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