...to my obsessive humming to eventually finding it on youtube to you. From Un Monstre A Paris.

Of course, getting the song by this path leads to the sort of confusion you suffer when you read the book before watching the movie - even if the script isn't a travesty, you've still already pictured it all completely differently. From my daughter's ( Read more... )

via niemandsrose. 5 years into a 6 year shoot, minor director Ilya Khrzhanovsky seems to have succeeded in reproducing something like a corner of Stalin's Russia. Almost enough to make me consider reading GQ regularly.

Elsewhere, "I be like whoa"* must, I think, represent the greatest violence done to English so far in four words. I was willing to respec' it on ( Read more... )

...with my son, I realise what it is that most bothers me about Jackson's interpretation: it's all around too concrete. That's a strange criticism for me to make, since I generally like it when films do what they must - put a visual on things that a novelist can elide or dress up in phraseology. And I really appreciate what Jackson does to ( Read more... )

Robin Laws wrote all you need to know about Ip Man 1, and in almost all regards Ip Man 2 is a carbon copy.

So why does it have any kind of suspense or drama? I can only put it down to extraordinarily good direction and fine acting from everyone except the British contingent, who range between mediocre and regrettable, and who have trouble fronting ( Read more... )

( shamelessly stolen from st_rev's slowed down jello post )

inertiacrept gets me to reflect again on the peculiar statement "Johnny Depp est Rango." In France this statement is true only if you are willing to accept that (a) Johnny Depp's regular French dub voice actor may be taken as a true votive for The Artist, and (b) the chameleon's mannerisms may be taken as Depp's legitimate trace filtered through ( Read more... )

 Even after all these years I still don't really get tokenism. I don't get its rules of necessary and sufficient signs. I don't think I could do it properly.

For instance, I've just got up to the episode of Glee which contains a dream sequence dance number where Artie, the cast member in a wheelchair, gets up and struts his stuff in a shopping mall.

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Finally saw this, only a few months  after princeofcairo 's unreserved recommendation. It's very small and doesn't go very fast, but it's surprisingly comfortable. And it's nice to deviate for once from the usual overengineered movie script that has to leave room for a sequel, reach out to all audiences, and quote 12 movies you might also enjoy based on your ( Read more... )

is really good, even if you're not an architect. If you are an architect, it's pretty much your very own Blade Runner, as Minority Report was to glass engineers. But, atypically, I'm most interested in it not for its Harold and the Purple Crayon appeal but for its retelling of Bluebeard's Castle, on which count it presents probably the smartest ( Read more... )

So I've mostly managed to avoid blogging about my belated introduction to Lost here, but halfway through season 4 there are two realisations I need to exorcise:

1. every single major character has a look. Like Zoolander's Blue Steel (on which, this). Reminds me that TV/movie acting is a subdiscipline of modeling, but that actors can get away with ( Read more... )