MUSICALMISANTHROPY.BLOGSPOT.COM

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: November 2004

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Friday, November 12, 2004. I'm an unabashed michael mann fan. stupidly i'd seen only two of his films before 'collateral' came along - 'heat' and 'the insider' - but they alone were enough to confirm him in my mind as a kind of latter-day kubrick. actually, let me rephrase. i think i. I would say mann is as. Assured in his sensibilities. As kubrick. he knows what he's good at - (primarily) male character study, supplemented by the most well-honed visual sense of. War of the...

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: December 2004

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Tuesday, December 07, 2004. Forgive the quietude. literary business has taken precedence. What of the two leads, then? Reports always mentioned how it took mann something like two takes to film their long coffee-house encounter (which in any case isn't really written that well; it stresses too overtly the way the two men are mirror-images of one another). Posted by focy at 11:49 AM. View my complete profile. War of the worlds. The saint (with digression).

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: April 2005

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Thursday, April 21, 2005. To trace my nauseous anxiety. Back to the fact I was born. With what the doctors and dad. Said was a ‘wet lung’,. To my disappointing inability. To scull, to smoke anything more. Than a quarter of a cone. To eat in tiny portions. That say anal austerity. Then when the television. Third of the world that will. Never learn to breath properly. Your revelatory detective goes. A-ha and jots another origin. You know when I get time away. Of a tarmac night.

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: September 2004

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Monday, September 27, 2004. Interesting that i should choose to 'review' oliver stone's paranoid epic on the heels of my curtailed 'casino' review. both films push the 3-hour mark. both are packed full of facts and characters and general madness such that first-time viewing is, if anything, a chore. but both, my god, both are such good. Ish sense of conspiracy-theory fun. What a shock i got when i decided to 'read around', to see what people thought of the film, to see how ...

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: February 2005

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Wednesday, February 16, 2005. So the gun-toting conclusion is a bit much. so the post-shootout marriage proposal is a bit much. who cares. there is so much to be excited about here. not least the discovery of what can happen when writers/directors/performers strive to combine genres and create a kinda dramatic overlap that says: laughs, action, and love in 90 minutes. you gotta see this film. Posted by focy at 10:28 PM. Monday, February 07, 2005. Or comic set-piece that.

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: March 2005

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Monday, March 21, 2005. Drive that knife/gun into the embodiment of wrong. I cannot believe how beautifully and perfectly this plan has been synchronised. Is that enough kubrick references for one entry? The firm' is better. Posted by focy at 4:15 PM. View my complete profile. War of the worlds. The saint (with digression). A wild young under-whimsy. Extreme black and white. HG Poetics (closed but quite awesome). Visitors since 26 august 04.

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: January 2005

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Monday, January 24, 2005. For our first date, i once asked a girl if she'd like to come around and 'watch a video'. i'd seen 'contact' for the first time a few days before this enthralling offer was made, and i, umm, wanted to watch it again. terrible. anyway - we watched it, i had a great time, and the relationship lasted about a fortnight. What made me love this movie so much? Posted by focy at 1:22 PM. Thursday, January 13, 2005. In the line of fire. Kevin costner stroll...

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: August 2004

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Monday, August 30, 2004. Ps fair to say that the majority of the academic literary criticism i read lacks any such enthusiasm. rather one constantly comes across the dull tone of a writer who knows his/her readership expects no fanfare. 'if you're so academically specialised as to actually want to read this article, you're probably already committed to/excited about the text in question'. maybe. but what a limiting (dare i say cliquey? Way to go about things. All interestin...

filmism.blogspot.com

filmism: October 2004

http://filmism.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_archive.html

By and large, movies are crap. Friday, October 15, 2004. Have such an ambiguous temporal function. Ambiguity is good, filmmakers! Ambiguity is not the very 'american beauty'-ish electro-piano score that seeks to infuse. But loving and stable. Parental unit) - what does this say of the director/writer's underlying motivations? Posted by focy at 1:34 PM. Thursday, October 14, 2004. But because i can't resist thinking it's a pretty mediocre movie. it's so very odd the way it drops away beyond that wonde...