Watching Werner Herzog’s South Pole documentary, Encounters at the End of the World, is an exceptionally humbling experience.Herzog sets out his stall early in the film, telling us that he was not interested in making a movie about ‘fluffy’ penguins and instead he takes his tiny crew to McMurdo Station, the American headquarters, and a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘film’
There was blood
Posted: April 21, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: film, jonathan fisher, let the right one in, music
Having spooked the bejesus out of myself by watching Let The Right One In recently, it has taken me a few days to get back to a normal, uneventful, solid night’s sleep. Even Amityville II: The Spookening (or something) seemed scary, having subjected my human eyes to a Swedish vampire film with one of the [...]
Animal Collective – My Girls from Rob Chesnutt on Vimeo. Not much point me posting this here as you probably already saw it on Nialler‘s blog but it’s just too good to not re-post. So many ideas overflowing in this video for Animal Collective’s My Girls by Rob Chestnutt – it has a cracking hodge [...]
Saw Frost/Nixon last night. Solid entertainment with Langella’s Nixon being a wonderful replacement now for my shitty Al Pacino impression – all jowly and gruff. Great performances by all involved although it takes Michael Sheen about 15 minutes to get past the impression stages of his performance. Sam Rockwell and Oliver Platt are great but [...]
For anyone involved in a relationship, Revolutionary Road might prove a somewhat uncomfortable ride; not for the caustic, bitter, spittle-laden fury contained in its simple plot but for the horrifying idea that any couple, once in love, could end up filled with such abject hatred and resentment towards each other. Sam Mendes – director of [...]
I’ve just gotten home from the work Xmas drinks thingy and In America is on TV. Sweet jesus promise me you’ll never watch this dire shite. I love Paddy Considine and Samantha Morton but even they cannot save this self indulgent twaddle, with a pair of D4 brats playing supposed ‘working class’ kids, in America. [...]
Why watching Gandhi fucking Penelope Cruz is wrong…and other ruminations on the film Elegy
Posted: December 1, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: elegy, film
I’ve just watched the Ben Kingsley film Elegy, an austere adaptation of one of Philip Roth’s recent novels, A Dying Animal. But first things first, the new trains between Galway and Dublin are becoming more common than the old trains and so it is now actually possible to plug in the trusty old laptop – [...]
Have been lazy about the blog recently so just a quick film post here.Having read the interview with Mickey Rourke in the weekend’s Observer, it seems that Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Wrestler is set to be the catalyst for one of the biggest Oscar wins of all time.Rourke is a man who has really [...]
A leaked trailer has emerged for Oliver Stone’s upcoming George W. Bush flick. This should be an interesting work to say the least..
The Dark Knight
Posted: July 24, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: film, review, the batman, the dark knight, the joker
The ‘reimagining’ of the Batman franchise continues with this black, bleak, typically dystopian, chaotic masterwork, The Dark Knight. With a script penned by his brother Jonathan, Christopher Nolan has fashioned a modern crime saga that displays its comic foundations proudly and takes all the best things about smart summer blockbusters and makes them even better. [...]
