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25 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘movies’
Weeknotes #488-493 Mon 18 Apr 2011 | 0 Comments
Some highlights (and lowlights) of the past few weeks: – My commute to work in the mornings takes me over the old Broadstone rail line, of which only the trackbed remains. I’ve got a thing for disused rail lines (maybe...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 2 Tue 01 Feb 2011
More links from the archives, this time 2004: Tufte Vs. Bloom / Paul Ford’s thoughts on Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees, which I never got around to finishing at the time; it’s about evaluating literature in context, the kind of...
Weeknotes #481-482 Sun 30 Jan 2011
Looking back over the last two weeks, I find two prevailing themes: reviewing the past, and predicting the future. The past I’ve already alluded to in my first Blogfodder link dump. Some of those links are nearly eight years old,...
The Cartographers of Cinema Sat 29 Jan 2011 | 0 Comments
From an otherwise unremarkable interview with the Coen brothers in The Guardian last week on release of their latest, True Grit, there’s this: It is their 14th to date, and the latest instalment in what appears to be a concerted...
Movies in 2009 Wed 31 Mar 2010 | 0 Comments
Looking back over my movie-watching habits in 2009, I was surprised at how little I’d actually seen, whether at the cinema or on TV or DVD. My calendar never lies: I sometimes went weeks without sitting through anything of feature...
Kong Bomb? Tue 27 Dec 2005 | 2 Comments
A little over a week ago I went with Dave No Spaces to see the big Peter Jackson remake of King Kong. Dave loved it, but I wasn’t so enthused. I mean it was alright as big action-adventure event movies...
Holy Sith! Fri 17 Jun 2005 | 12 Comments
Two points, after seeing Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith: Doesn’t it strike you as odd that at the beginning of the movie the technology is all plasma screens and shit, but by the end they’ve regressed to...
For Love Or Money? Tue 14 Oct 2003
Mark Lawson writes in Saturday's Guardian on the case of Georges Lopez, the school teacher featured in the excellent documentary Être et Avoir (here's a review I wrote over the summer) who is reported to be suing the film's producers...
Google Celebrates Hitchcock Wed 13 Aug 2003
Yet again, Google marks a special day with an appropriate logo. Last time around it was the birthday of M.C. Escher. This time, it's someone a tad more renowned: ==== That's right, today is Alfred Hitchcock's birthday. I wonder how...
To Be and To Have Sun 13 Jul 2003 | 3 Comments
(or, _Two Films Recently Enjoyed_) Though they appear to have gotten themselves somewhat of a reputation for being, for lack of a better term, _boring_, my own response to the two (very different) films I've had the opportunity to see...
Matrix Schmatrix Sun 01 Jun 2003 | 5 Comments
I'm probably the last weblog writer on earth to see The Matrix Reloaded. I was in fact much later getting around to seeing the original because, to be honest, I just wasn't that pushed about it. (I didn't bother until...
A Day in the Life of a Wannabe Critic Tue 06 May 2003
Most of my day today was spent at the Buena Vista screening room for not one, but _two_ media previews, courtesy of Touchstone Pictures. More review fodder for me. Could only be a good thing, I expected. After lunch, we...
Thoughts On the Film Festival Thu 13 Mar 2003
The film festival finishes today, and even though I only attended a handful of screenings and so obviously can’t judge for the festival overall, it was well worth the hassle for me. Even the badly-soundproofed confines of the Screen on...
At The Movies Fri 07 Mar 2003
I haven't had much to do lately (besides enjoying the box of goodies from Midheaven that arrived yesterday, and one or two other, very important things that I don't need--or want--to divulge here), and as you might imagine I'm kind...
Adaptation Mon 10 Feb 2003 | 3 Comments
I had the good fortune last week to attend not one, but two free media screenings. Tuesday morning was spent watching Analyse That (the sequel to Analyse This, natch); it was nothing to write home about. Wednesday's screening of Adaptation...
Dark. Darker. Darko. Sun 05 Jan 2003
I saw Donnie Darko for the third time yesterday. This time however it was on the big screen, at the IFC with Eoin and Joana. Having made many mental notes for the duration of the film, I actually think...
Bowling for Columbine Wed 27 Nov 2002
I met Dave on the bus on the way into town, which was convenient since we were supposed to meet in town anyways, and we went to see Bowling For Columbine. Powerfull stuff indeed. Entertaining, yet very thought provoking....
Watching Movies Sat 21 Sep 2002
Keyboard problems sorted: I swopped the one that shipped with my eMac for a proper local version, with all the keys in the right place, in town this afternoon. While I was there I also got a 250mb Zip drive...
Storytelling Tue 23 Jul 2002
I watched Todd Solondz's Storytelling earlier today. It was shit. Uncomfortably manipulative, laced with flavour of forced post-modern irony (you know, the kind that went out of fashion in 1995), his characters designed to be either repulsive (frustratingly so)...
Controversy? What Controversy? Thu 16 May 2002
I completely agree with Woody Allen regarding this so-called 'controversy' at the Cannes Film Festival. Why should he boycott? If these 'American Jews' actually practiced their own logic, surely they'd have to boycott their own country. How come such...
Amelie Sat 27 Apr 2002
I rented Amelie on DVD yesterday and watched it last night. Everyone I knew who'd already seen it said it was great, but I wasn't sure. I thought Jeunet made a dog's dinner out of Alien: Resurrection, and I've...
Chasing The Dragon Tue 12 Mar 2002
It suddenly dawned on me today why there's a menagerie of film-related vehicles in the tennis club car park down the road from my house: they're filming Chasing the Dragon, the new film based on the Veronica Guerin murder...
Mulholland Drive to South Park Mon 07 Jan 2002
Just got back a while ago from Mulholland Drive at the IFC. I enjoyed it, which surprised me, it being a David Lynch and all. But as we were on our way home, Dave seemed to crack it (the...
Godard Sucks Wed 19 Dec 2001
Went to see the new Jean-Luc Godard film this evening, Éloge de l'Amour - what a pile of pretentious wankery. The moment I saw the 'book without words', I knew it was gonna be bad. It just didn't go...
The Contenders Sun 11 Nov 2001
I can't believe I read nothing today. Not that the day has been entirely unproductive. I watched the DVD of Series 7: The Contenders before it was due back at Xtra-Vision. (It was good, could have been better, the...
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