Articles in the film Category
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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