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Film
Various writing on films, most of which I’ve seen. Warning: may contain opinions.
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10.04.04Brands in moviesBrandchannel has an excellent and comprehensive cataloguing of brands appearing in movies. I'll leave it to you to decide whether those placements might have been paid for or not.
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09.15.04Underground cinema in ParisMore background on the subterranean cinema discovered in Paris recently.
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07.25.04Just watched…...Big Fish and very much enjoyed it. Deliciously tall tales.
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01.13.04Film biteThe Shipping News. Not having read the book, I was impressed by the film - though possibly more by Lasse Hallstrom's dramatic treatment of Newfoundland as its own character in the film than by the story.
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01.07.04Film biteThe Man Who Sued God. I think God should sue Billy Connolly for making such a decidedly average film.
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01.01.03HalfI'm a completist. I like to see things through to the end. Once I've committed to something, I try to see it through. I've seen some bad movies. I've seen some real doozies - Jade, Operation Dumbo Drop, Species to name but a few - but I've only ever walked out of one film: Roadhouse. It was a sticky saturday afternoon in Cochabamba, and I headed for the only air-conditioned cinema in town to take in a double bill - Congo and Roadhouse. During the week and in the evenings, the cinema played porn, though at the weekends, it was family entertainment ...
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01.01.03Star Wars: The Waiting Is OverIt's been a long wait. It's felt like a very very very long wait. I'm glad it's finally over, and yet... on another level, the waiting seems to have been half the fun. It certainly seemed that way in Leicester Square last night, as we joined the end of a long queue of moviegoers six abreast, which snaked around the square and buzzed with excitement and the combined power of 200 lightsabers. It was even more fun as the line advanced toward the Odeon, and we readied our tickets for the door, giggling and sweaty-palmed. As we found our seats ...
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01.01.03Star Wars: The Waiting GameI haven't watched television for a week. Yes, I've paid my licence fee. No, I'm not some kind of weird puritan. It's not because there's nothing on, and it's not a protest either: it's survival. It started two months ago. It started slowly - the odd mention buried in the middle pages of the dailies; the "and finally" spot on the nightly news, having a laugh at the expense of those wacky Yanks. Most people didn't pay much attention, but some of us did. Across the UK, people stood in line at bus-stops, flicking through papers and shaking their heads, amused. ...
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12.08.02Movies on the MoveWent to see LOTR at the Odeon Leicester Square. Our arrival was heralded by a sparkle of paparazzi flashes and a huge cheer from the waiting crowd - although it later transpired that they were actually waiting for Joshua Hairnet and crew to show up to the premiere of Black Hawk Down. Ah well. I'll save my mumblings on the movie for another time - suffice to say for the moment that it was visually spectacular, and there was a lot of it. An arse-numbing three hours, in fact. There was also a lot of it in the sense that there ...
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12.08.02Blues for BettyThe first 15-rated movie I sneaked into was Top Gun in 1986. I was 12 but looked a lot older (always have done - good when I was a teenager, not so good now I'm approaching 30. Argh), and couldn't see why the film merited a 15 rating. It wasn't till years later that I noticed the highly homoerotic subtext of the film - all slapping arses with wet towels and manly men promising to be each others' wingmen, or fighting in the shower room. Nice. I didn't feel guilty about sneaking in at all. A year later, on a sunday ...
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