Articles in the film Category

Searching for Sugarman
Posted in Searching for Sugarman on 19 March 2013

A friend lent me this and I watched it over the weekend.

It is a gorgeous film. The blurb on the cover suggests that it is the best documentary ever. I haven’t seen enough documentaries to make that definitive judgement, …

An introduction to pop culture
Posted in The Matrix on 23 February 2013

So your son is 11, going on 17, going on 3. You want to prepare him for the world; how to ‘read’ pop culture and how to come to a view. You want to teach him what to accept and …

Friday Music
Posted in Leonard Cohen, Natural Born Killers on 1 February 2013

I finally go around to watching ‘Natural Born Killers’ last week. An extraordinarily powerful film. By turns fantasy, profanity, violent, thoughtful and funny, I found that I had trouble in turning away from it.

I can understand- but not wholly …

Braveheart
Posted in Braveheart, thoughts on 30 January 2013

One of the joys of freesat is that you can watch the same film over and over again: scarcely a night has gone by when ‘Love Actually’ is on. As an alternative to ‘Love Actually’, some channels have gone onto …

Gladiator: Sunday
Posted in family, Gladiator, thoughts on 17 October 2012

On Sunday I went to http://www.visitmima.com/ (of which more in a couple of days). There was a really powerful installation there about life; about growing old and about dying. There is something in Heidegger’s phrase about most of …