ph: Tom Munro
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Four Lions (2010)
Four incompetent British jihadists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
Well-intentioned black comedy, but only ocassionally funny.
Friday, October 19, 2012
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First Lines: Dorothy Allison - Bastard Out of Carolina
I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Sylvia Kristel R.I.P.
In my teens I was mesmerized by her beauty, my favourite movie with her is Claude Chabrol's Alice ou la derniere fugue.
Obituary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19990457
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
First Lines: Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
2012 (2009)
An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Basically a remake of When Worlds Collide with more spectacular destruction scenes but just as trashy.
Maltin **: "State-of-the-art CGI wizardry is employed to eye-popping effect in this latest apocalyptic extravaganza from the director of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. But the pace too often is plodding, the performances wildy uneven, and the script crammed with laughable cliches and preposterous coincidences...this amped-up version of a '70s disaster film offers little more than very expensive cheap thrills."
Une affaire d'état (2009)
The assassination of a girl on a street in Pigalle and the shooting down of a plane are two cases related and both involve people in high places.
Complex and fascinating political thriller revealing ever deeper levels of corruption.
Monday, October 15, 2012
First Lines: Heinrich Böll - The Clown
It was dark by the time I reached Bonn, and I forced myself not to succumb to the series of mechanical actions which had taken hold of me in five years of traveling back and forth: down the station steps, up the station steps, put down my suitcase, take my ticket out of my pocket, pick up my suitcase, hand in my ticket, cross over to the newsstand, buy the evening papers, go outside, and signal for a taxi.