I kept thinking of reasons not to like this film which I wanted to see despite all the bad reviews and quite liked anyway perhaps as much to see for myself and or to prove how clever I was at being able to skilfully pick a movie apart with all my film classes and working [...]
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
I saw this Live HD broadcast from the NY Met yesterday evening and tweeted from the cinema about it but these are my first blog musings.
This was the last one of the season but they are proving so popular that they are going to add more performances next year, up to 11 from 8 this [...]
deception
Lisa Gay Hamilton as a homicide detective was the best thing about this movie which really didn’t live up to its potential. Marcel langenegger has directed one other film and a commercial and it could look like that, nothing wrong with the cinematography done by Dante Spinotti who was director of photography on Heat and [...]
un homme perdu
Le Film ‘Un homme perdu’
Dirigé par Danielle Arbid qui est elle-même libanaise.
Ce film est en arabe, français avec un peu d’anglais.
Il commence hors de Beyrouth et se passe en Syrie et en Jordanie.
Un photographe découvre un homme qui est perdu au sens propre comme au figuré mais après un moment il [...]
Persepolis
I read this graphic novel in translation not in the original French. This film version was also in English with voices done by Sean Penn and Catherine Deneuve amongst others. It was well done the parts with the traffic flow were interesting. I have read a half a dozen accounts of life in Iran by [...]
Happy Go Lucky
Directed by Mike Leigh and was good actually. Socialist realism nice for all the pedagogues to have confirmed their aspirations. Sally Hawkins was in most of it. Eddie Marsan did a pretty good uptight driving instructor temper tantrum.
Lars and the real girl
This film was amazingly funny but serious too. Patricia Clarkson as (Dr) Dagmar brought the film together in the same that the community came together around Lars (played by Ryan Gosling) and his delusion.
In Bruges
Your basic Irish hitmen holed up in Bruges at Christmas waiting for instructions as to their next move sort of movie. Colin Farrell with Clémence Poésy reminding of Scarlett Johansen as the love interest. Genuinely funny.
[REC]
Scary movie from Barcelona. Manuela Velasco carries it. Only one hour and fifteen minutes long but pretty intense for most of that. Starts out innocently and almost amateurishly but don’t let that fool you. Could remind of an indoor Blair Witch project. If you like the films coming out of mainland Spain and you like [...]
21
This movie opened in the States 3 weeks ago and has been hanging in at the Box Office steadily every weekend since. However it just opened in the UK this weekend with the preview Wednesday. Seems the critics don’t like it that much and after seeing it I understand why.
It was endurable and I thought [...]
