TweetBeen a bit thin on the movie front so have taken the opportunity to put up some other stuff. Only do TV that seems interesting or fun. Poetry is what it is. And other writing is as and when. Hoping to find some Solace this week – but what is there new to say about […]
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TweetLiberal Values – Zettel In a New York Times article in December 1951, prophetically called ‘The Best Answer to Fanaticism – Liberalism’, Bertrand Russell defined liberal values in the form of a liberal decalogue, generously remarking for such a committed atheist and liberal, that it was intended to supplement not supplant the old one. Together […]
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TweetMargot at The Wedding – Noah Baumbach This is a HUIAM – a Head Up Its Ass Movie. 93 minutes of lose-the-will-to-live self-obsessed, narcissistic, articulate anal angst set in alternative universe California. This farrago of misused intelligence manages to stereotype absolutely every character, gender and emotion and then self-abuse them to exhaustion. This movie gives […]
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Tweet Miss Potter – Chris Noonan Innocence is by definition unknowing. The ‘magic of childhood’ isn’t something a child experiences but an effort by adults to describe the palpable, heart-stopping delight they see in the eyes of children entranced, absorbed in a picture, a story, a game. Or poignantly, cherished memories of their own childhood. […]
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Tweet Million Dollar Baby – Clint Eastwood Don’t be put off. This superb film is not light, trite or funny as it’s silly title suggests. Rope Burns, its working title, would have been fine. More importantly: boxing is its context, not its subject. Even if you hate boxing, you can still enjoy this movie. And […]
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Tweet Sin City – Miller, Rodriguez, Tarantino (BBC Prize Review) Sin City is critic-proof. I guess that is the point. Any level on which you take it is uncool. Take it seriously and you’ve missed the cool joke. Treat it simply as a clever joke and you have missed the post-modern, movie-referential, ironic noir parody. […]
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Tweet The Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine) – Nicolas Klotz Challenging, austere, masterly. That’s me. Drivel, pompous, dire. Those are some other comments – mostly from punters rather than critics it must be said. For me, if you take cinema, film, as an art form capable of the expression of profound ideas and deep emotions, […]
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Tweet The Fog of War – Director Errol Morris In Fog Of War ex-US Secretary of State Robert MacNamara, is given enough rope by Director Morris to almost hang himself. Once one of the most hated men in America for his central political role in the Vietnam War, MacNamara graces us with 11 ‘lessons’ or […]
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