March 24

Katzelmacher – Fassbinder makes his first “bourgeois” film. (film review)

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When Fassbinder called Katzelmacher his frist “bourgeois” film (it was made in August 1969 over nine days and is his second feature ever made) word has it he called it that because it is a film conceived against real life rather than other films. The first film he made, Love is Colder than Death (a […]

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March 24

2013 Lammy Awards – The Submissions, The Nominations and me.

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I am a proud member of the LAMB (Large Association of Movie Blogs) and have been for just under a year now. I’m still not able to spend any social time on The Lamb, but what I do go there for is the large range of high quality film blogs available. Like everyone, I have […]

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March 20

Warm Moonlight – Joseph Wurtenbaugh spins a tale of the supernatural. (fiction review)

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Warm Moonlight is a nice little novella – or rather a longish short story – that I found on Amazon in one of my rare moments of strolling around on that site. Joseph Wurtenbaugh writes under several names, as far as I can tell from his Amazon bio,  and has several stories and novellas gathered together […]

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March 20

Farewell My Queen – Benoît Jacquot and the object of desire between women. (French Film Festival film review)

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I enjoyed this film much more than I expected to, but because it was capped off with a wonderful chance to chat with Benoît Jacquot who is a very charming man, it somehow turned a night at the cinema into an event. Farewell My Queen is billed as the final days of Marie Antoinette’s reign, but it is also a […]

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March 16

Destroy, She Said – Marguerite Duras and the radical power of subversion. (fiction review)

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You’re all remarkably interested in her,’ says Bernard Alione. ‘Yes.’ ‘Might one inquire why?’ – his voice is stronger again. ‘Literary reasons,’ says Stein, laughing. He goes on laughing. Alissa watches him, enchanted. ‘So my wife’s a character in a novel?’ says Bernard Alione. He sneers. But his voice is still strained in spite of […]

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March 16

Performance (A Late Quartet) – Yaron Zilberman’s astonishing debut. (film review)

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It is so interesting that I saw The Paperboy a week or so ago, and I put the writing problems of that film down to inexperience.  Then I go to see Performance (titled A Late Quartet in the States) and it is easily one of the best films of 2012, coming from a first time […]

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March 12

Judy Kang – Judy Kang reimagines our relationsihp with the classical. (Music review)

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I’ve been listening to this album for quite a while and it has grown on me, so much so that I’m searching for it in my playlist these days. It covers such a variety of sound imagery that I find my mood has to be right in order to grasp the depths in her offerings, […]

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March 12

Camille Rewinds – Noémie Lvovsky realises sometimes bad things happen for good reasons. (film review from the French Film Fest)

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Noémie Lvovsky has had quite a year.  With a leading role in the uber french hit Farewell my Queen, she also released to much critical acclaim, her project (with HER stamped all over it – she directs, writes and stars in this) Camille Redouble, or Camille Rewinds in English. No wonder she’s the name on […]

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March 11

A trick of the Light – Wim Wenders reminds us the German’s did it first. (Film Review)

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When Martin Scorcese’s Hugo came out at the end of 2011, we were all re-entranced with the Lumier brothers again, and the birth of cinema. The interest sparked a kind of revival of sorts, with the rocket in the eye of the moon motif suddenly being found all over the place.  However Wim Wenders charming […]

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March 05

The Paperboy – Lee Daniels and the question of what went wrong with a butchered script. (film review)

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I’ve said on this blog before that I don’t review works I don’t like, but The Paperboy is such a mess, that to review it feels like a necessary act of catharsis. It’s an enormous shame, because in the hands of a director with more experience I think it had the makings of a truly […]

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