The Wider World perceives fashion as a frivolity that should be done away with. The point is that fashion is the armour to survive the reality of every day life. I don’t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization. Fashion as the armour to survive the reality […]
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Drive: A boys film the girls will love.
posted by lisathatcher
Ok! So I saw drive this weekend. I went with my guy, which I think makes for a better movie experience in this case because this is a celebration of some great ‘blokey’ flicks and it’s kinda nice to do the viewing with a man you have that soft spot for. After all, Nicholas Winding Refn […]
Top ten Films Blog-a-thon
posted by lisathatcher
So the great blog Top ten Films is having a blog-a-thon. The deal is, you have a magic ticket and you can hop into any film you want to grab a ride on. Once you have these choices available, how would you answer the following questions: 1. What character would I most like to be sat […]
Death and the Maiden: Dorfman’s guide to Hell
posted by lisathatcher
If you live in London or are going to London between now and January, then you are lucky enough to be able to grab a ticket to the performance of Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden. Teh Guardian have done a wonderful review of this amazing play. Read it here. I haven’t been lucky enough […]
Midnight in Paris – Woody’s letter to himself.
posted by lisathatcher
Woody Allen likes to make films for himself and if other people like them too, well, that’s just darling. If he wants to copy a Bergman, he does it. If he wants to bash on endlessly about his neurosis, he does it. if He wants to be asking the same questions about the invisible pathways between men […]
Off to see Midnight in Paris this afternoon.
posted by lisathatcher
OK – So I am off to see this tonight. I’m going to suspend my Woody “opinions” (like can we PLEASE make something other than an Annie hall remake?) and see if I can just get into the celebration of modernism. I mean, hey! I’m up for a midnight visit with Gertrude Stein right? I’ll post a […]
Norwegian Wood: Death, grief and sex.
posted by lisathatcher
Ok – so I am now reading this because the film is so alluring, I decided to take on my first Haruki Mirukami novel. (The great love recommended it to me as well, and who can resist that combination?) This novel has been called impossible to adapt for film. It is the fifth of Mirukami’s […]
The Eye of The Storm – sex and molestation for those over 55.
posted by lisathatcher
Review: The Eye of the Storm Like most Australians, I haven’t read any Patrick White. You see, it’s complicated for us. Australia suffers from the worst cultural cringe of almost any Western Nation (something our close neighbours the New Zealanders take great pleasure in observing) and to have an Australian awarded a Nobel “for an […]
Submarine – A journey through a genre.
posted by lisathatcher
Submarine is a coming of age story based on the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. It serves as the directorial debut for Richard Ayoade. There is a scene in this very sweet film that flows thusly: “It’s rude to leave a film before it’s finished.” “who to?” “to the filmmakers.” “how are […]
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Francois Ozon: Film as art, art as film.
posted by lisathatcher
“I think cinema has to deal with desire. In the cinema, you are with a big screen, it is dark, and you watch some images, like a fantasy, so I think it is important for you to feel desire for what you see.” So, I did write in my post Top ten films blog-a-thon, that […]