“Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become…habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think we become. My father always said that… and I think I am fine.” One of […]
Category Archives: Film Reviews
Off to see The Iron Lady tomorrow!
posted by lisathatcher
… and I have to confess to being especially nervous. I’d really like this film to be good. But is there much chance of that? Particularly seeing as tonight’s film is Louis Bunuel’s The Phantom of Liberty, and I will be watching in the slipstream of that. How can it hope to compete? I can have […]
Jean Pierre Melville: Un Flic
posted by lisathatcher
I’m lucky enough to be on a Melville kick at the moment. I have a small box set that I was smart enough to buy a while back and I have several brilliant films on order. So my Melville review will be spread over several films, seeing as many of the themes of his work […]
The Empire of the Passions: Japan at its most passionate.
posted by lisathatcher
I saw Norwegian Wood earlier this year, and enjoyed it very much. It’s a beautiful film, made in Japan, sourced from Japan’s greatest living writer, made by a Vietnamese filmmaker. I also watched Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, a Japanese film starring Western actors made by a Japanese director. In the case of Tran Anh Hung, […]
The Earings of Madame de: 1950’s French Cinema chic
posted by lisathatcher
“Whenever love touches history, events of the past belong to the present.” What a glorious pleasure it was to be immersed in The Earings of Madame De for an evening. The sumptuous filming, the beautiful costumes, the witty and sophisticated complex story line. The basic story is: a silly spoilt wife of a General sells […]
Restless: Gus Van Sant’s take on death.
posted by lisathatcher
Ok. I have a confession to make. Everyone who reads this blog is no stranger to the fact that I adore film. No – let’s do a take two on that – I adore good film. I’m not willing to say (as a very dear writer friend says to me regularly) that film has replaced […]
We need to talk about Kevin: Cinematic quality in a sea of ambiguity.
posted by lisathatcher
It’s been a bit of a film week for me. I saw We Need To Talk About Kevin, and I need to fess up right away that I haven’t read Lionel Shriver’s book. Nor do I intend to. I have nothing against Ms Shriver, but I read Room by Emma Donoghue and I will confess […]
The Ides of March: Bit of a yawn really.
posted by lisathatcher
The Ides of March is a film full of ‘good moments’ and that is about the best you can say of it. It’s an old story / message – one we all know and suspect Clooney of harbouring. That is politics is tired and cynical itself; driven by a lust for the win rather than […]
Jules and Jim: Genius locked away in a moment in time.
posted by lisathatcher
There are many ways to appreciate a Francoise Truffaut film. In this respect he is the aesthetes greatest friend. There is never the moral simplicity we see in a Bresson film or the obtuse avantgarde we see in Godard. Truffaut is an artist who makes films he thinks are beautiful. Jules and Jim is an […]
Lisa Thatcher 