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Cinephile: Martin Freeman stars as Rembrandt in Nightwatching
19th March | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
“It really is very conventional and straightforward film for Peter Greenaway,” explains Martin Freeman who plays Rembrandt in the famed British director’s latest outing. Nightwatching. “But I was very flattered when I was offered the part. There aren’t many Greenaway’ s in this world making films for the reasons that he makes films.”
Indeed, this rather delicious film tells the story behind one of the painter’s most famous masterpieces that although... -
Cinephile: Letter from an Unknown Woman and The Firm
19th March | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s novella of 1922, is widely considered to be German born director Max Ophüls’s over-riding masterpiece. Now released for the first time in thirty years on the big screen it stars Joan Fontaine as a woman infatuated by the rakish former concert pianist Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan) who send him a letter that starts with the immortal line, ‘By the...
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Cinephile: Invictus, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and Fishtank
19th March | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I truly appreciate the work of Clint Eastwood. Always have. Indeed as far as I’m concerned he has created some of my favourite and most watched movies, but sadly, his latest offering, Invictus, falls way short of his usual mark. Basically, it tells of how in 1995 Nelson Mandela’s in his first term of office joined forces with the Captain of the countries rugby squad in order to win the cup...
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Where The Wild Things Are - a Christmas cracker…
9th December 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
With the Yuletide season bearing down on us cinemas the world over have turned their attention to the family movie –which on the face of it is not such a bad thing. That said, the highlight of this years seasonal offerings has to be, Where The Wild Things Are. Based on Maurice Sendak’s landmark book of the same name, this cracking turn is directed by Spike Jonze, stars Max Records...
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Oh la la - ‘tres amusant’ indeed
8th December 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
I’ve always been utterly disdainful of slapstick, pratfalls and silent movie comedies but, will admit, that the Gallic director/star Jacques Tati (France’s main purveyor of such) had me chuckling like good ‘un with, Mon Oncle (1958). As his alter ego, the well meaning, but enormously accident prone, M. Hulot, Tati visits his relatives the Arpels and their incredibly chic friends. Ensconced in Paris, the rather bourgeois family are everything that...
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Christmas is coming, and Disney’s getting fat
6th November 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Christmas is a bit like the flu. You are forced to lie around all day, watch crap TV, consume lots of food you wouldn’t normally eat, and each year both seem to arrive earlier and than the last. This year I had flu fashionably early,setting the trend in July while London’s utterly loathsome and incompetent major, Boris Johnson has been bribed by Disney to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas...
