October 2011
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'Tomboy' Wins Odessa International Film Festival... →
One of the great films made by adults for adults about children, according to me.
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June 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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Going out to Llano,
Llano del Rio.
Try to find Utopia
In the stucco grids and...
– Frank Black.
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more...
– Leonard Bernstein, November 25th 1963.
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September 2010
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August 2010
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There are always a few people in Hollywood who are considered mad dreamers for...
– Pauline Kael back in 1971, when things were a bit different.
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The word is 'oubliette'
Honestly forgot this place existed.
June 2009
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No tumblelog left behind
One post per year seems reasonable to me. Edinburgh beckons.
EIFF Last
Death Defying Acts: Scotch mist. Did Harry Houdini really talk like Johnny Depp?
Sleep Dealer: Leonor Varela. That is all.
Transsiberian: Deeply odd to see Emily Mortimer carry the gun, but it works. Deeply annoying to see Woody Harrelson play the idiot, but presumeably the money kept him in hemp for a while.
Somers Town: Shane Meadows is a great guy, but after the impact and dread of Dead Mans...
EIFF 2
The Kreutzer Sonata, in which director Bernard Rose incises deeply into a rich man’s jealousy, and I fall madly in love with Elizabeth Rohm after stepping on her train on the way out.
Red: an unspeakably taut neo-noir modern western whose success is almost ridiculous when you find out that it was made in two halves by two directors at two different times.
Understatement of the week: “I...