ph: Carlotta Manaigo
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Absolute Beginners (1986)
A nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with a model, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world.
Splashy and colorful, but silly musical by a director you would have expected more exotravagant fair, and better music.
Halliwell (no star): "Deafening, mindless, musical, multi-screen pot-pourri of teen culture which sadly needs narrative links, not to mention better music and firmer control."
Maltin**1/2: "Energetic, original musical...Highly stylized film (directed by music-video veteran Temple) suffers from two-dimensional characters and a misguided attempt to add substance by dealing with the rise of racism in England...but its virtues almost outweigh its shortcomings."
Friday, December 13, 2013
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First Lines: Robert Lewis Taylor - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
On the day when I first learned of my father's journey, I had come back with two companions from a satisfactory afternoon in the weeds near Kay's Bell Foundry, shooting a slingshot at the new bells, which were lying out in the yard and strung up on rafters.
New Stuff: Woodkid
I must admit I heard Run, Boy, Run first in a TV commercial, but the tune didn't get out of my head.
New Stuff: An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music
And now the 7th and probably last edition in this spectacular series.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
R.I.P Eleanor Parker
Eulogy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/movies/eleanor-parker-91-oscar-nominated-actress-dies.html?_r=0
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
First Lines: James Agee - A Death in the Family
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
New Stuff: The Machinery of Life
Intrigued by a documentary I saw on TV I wanted to catch up with the most recent and fascinating discoveries in molecular biology.
New Stuff: Neil Young
Classic concert from Neil Young's After the Goldrush phase, which in my opinion is his best album.
Runaway Train (1985)
Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.
Based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa this simple story story turns out to be an enormously exciting and captivating thriller.
Halliwell*: "Violent, foul-mouthed melodrama with no interest beyond breathtaking photography of the speeding train. Its general pretentiousness, perhaps, is also something to experience."
Maltin***: "A rare bird, this film: an existential action movie!...Tough, violent, with hair-raising action footage and a superb characterization by Voight in his most atypical role to date."
New Stuff: Alban Berg
On my want list for years I finally got it; now I'll need to find the time to listen to it...
The MacKintosh Man (1973)
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Although produced by a crew of professionals, this spy thriller is sloppily made and the plot sounds more exciting than it actual is.
Halliwell*: "Convoluted but entertaining spy thriller with good performances and action sequences."
Maltin**1/2: "Well-made espionage thriller has only one problem: it's all been done before."
Halliwell*: "Convoluted but entertaining spy thriller with good performances and action sequences."
Maltin**1/2: "Well-made espionage thriller has only one problem: it's all been done before."
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