January 2010
31 posts
Ne'er a truer word spoken.
“This is the one.”
“Who’s she?”
“She’s the soul of the world. She’s in a very important spot here. This is you, what you are bringing to the reading. She say’s ‘You are part of the world. Air, water, every living thing is connected to you.’”
“That’s a nice thought.”
“It is.”
“What does...
“Beautiful Mine” (Instrumental...
Ebert reviews "The Lovely Bones" →
And yet again nails my chief objections and concerns regarding the film, and I haven’t seen it. And never will, it sounds vile.
In ‘Game Change,’ Insight on the 2008 Campaign →
Fascinating, if gossipy, stuff from the book review in the NYT. See our future in terms of the nature of political campaigning and polititians people.
Possibly my favourite review of "A Single Man" →
I cannot but concur on his Colin Firth judgement, and yes much of the film is hardly subtle, but I put it in my top 10 of the year and stand by that - primarily due to the revelation of Mr Firth’s performance (but the cinematography too, both desaturated and saturated).
Eric Rohmer: Let's talk about … everything →
A well written article by Gilbert Adair in The Guardian.
Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian →
The Onion does it again.
Solar system may be more compact than thought -... →
My Top 5 Films of the Decade
Weirdly, this list was far easier to compile than my top 10 of last year. Probably because I restricted myself to just five - picking another five would be torture. These are just the films that I knew were masterpieces the first time I saw them and only had that opinion reinforced on subsequent viewings. Again there are many other films that I’ve loved over the last ten years, but these...
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