Just saw “four lions.” The review that said it leaves you with the aftertaste of ash in your mouth, and that’s apt, was spot on. Funny and frustrating. Here: google it then watch it http://www.google.com/m?hl=en?=us&client=ms-android-verizon&source=android-browser-type&action=devloc&q=four+lions
Jean-Yves Escoffier’s reflections on Gummo (2)
Gummo’s screenplay was a montage of over 200 different episodes, one card per scene, which Harmony would then stick onto the wall and combine them together also allowing for improvisation. The opening scene of Tummler (Nick Sutton) and Solomon cycling down the hill was shot from a camera car and just happened. Who knows how [...]
easy a
just shed a few tears at the end of Easy A. That sounds like a stereotypical twitter post. But they were literally just a few. More like a smear. Two or three smears. Shelly didn’t notice. Though she would have found it cute. And Ira Glass said more people cry at movies in planes than [...]
Relocating To District 10: Targeting The District 9 Sequel
Just saw District 9, and of course loved it. And of course, my libby heart was bleeding for those prawns. I am as itching for a sequel as I am scared of what it could be. Let’s just say that cut to the scene with the chickens pecking about was lovely. Reminded me of mornings [...]
easy rider
Just saw Easy Rider for the first time. All I knew about the movie was the ending – someone actually told me the ending after making sure I had not seen the movie before. Dick. Anyway, it added a sinister dread to the entire film, and made me love Peter Fonda’s character all the more. [...]
gtt liverpool actions vid
Here’s the web version of the DVD of the first set of actions from The Ghana Think Tank, Liverpool taking place at FACT right now. It’s over 50mb and nearly ten minutes long. Below is a selection of the first Liverpool action, or click here for the version with a more general intro to the [...]
thu tran baguette party
Thu Tran‘s got a new DVD out, showing at Monkeytown, and some other amazing news!
my life without me
though my life without me is clearly staged, from the “phony poetic moments”* to shots when you feel precisely that you are looking through the eyes of a video camera (but not in the blair witch cloverfield i did this on purpose way), the film was still quiet and beautiful and even more touching and [...]