Alice from Wonderland and Dorothy from Oz rolled into Pepperminta by Pipilotti Rist [...]
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Review of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. My first experience of a 3D film. [...] Continue reading Narnia in 3D There are some great lines in Fantastic Voyage (some of them cited below), but I ended up going for a cheap joke at the expense of Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. I was inspired by the strip in the middle of the postcard above here, which is a still from the DVD. (What she’s [...] Continue reading Not now, Cora! As my own birthday present to myself, I bought a box of DVDs (mostly Science-Fiction related). I anticipate working my way through them bit by succulent bit (inclding, of course, all the Extra Material) and boning out some favourite quotes. Which I plan to share here in postcard form. As chance would have it, [...] Continue reading Human teenagers Yesterday evening to see Star Trek. Very satisfactory! (Italicised text below quoted from the Star Trek trivia section of the appropriate Internet Movie database page. Pictures from the IMDb’s collection of photos or taken from stills from the film’s trailers on the Star Trek Movie official site.) To make the film appeal to the [...] Continue reading Star Trek Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Winslet Gothenburg International Film Festival 2009 Revolutionary Road is not Titanic despite Kate and Leo. Suffocation of youthful dreams by 1950s US middle-class norms. None of the characters really sympathetic – mostly rather pathetic. All immature and kicking at the limits, but no one daring to cross [...] Continue reading Revolutionary Road Tilda Swinton, Isaac Julien and Derek Jarman's tombstone Gothenburg Film Festival 2009 To see Derek – Tilda Swinton’s film about Derek Jarman. Very good, documentary. Visually powerful and fascinating. Wonderful use of archive film (including what looks like private footage) and very well intercut with interviews Jarman gave and with Tilda Swinton’s own [...] Continue reading Derek |
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