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Yon silver screen.

2011 in Print

Comics A nice mix of mainstream, European and indy this year.   Asterios Polyp – David Mazzuchelli   Britten & Brulightly – Hannah Berry   Chance in Hell – Gilbert Hernandez   Doing Time – Hanawa Kazuichi   Fun Home – Alison Bechdel   Hellcity: The Whole Damned Thing – Macon Blair and Joe Flood [...]

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2011 on Screen

These are straight from the viewing diary. Those that I remember with a smile get some link-love. Features   13 Assassins   Animal Kingdom   Another Year   Born into Brothels   Buck   Chugyeogja   Contagion   Frozen River   Get Low   Leaves of Grass   Please Give   El secreto de sus [...]

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IMF

The latest Mission: Impossible instalment is around the corner and I’m kinda interested, kinda excited, though not because I’m a fan of either the franchise or Tom Cruise hisself – it’s for the directors who’ve gamely signed on (and the first one doesn’t count because Nobody knew)*:   –  M:I-2 by a post-Killer, pre-Paycheck John [...]

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Dream It

“I asked [Ayrton Senna] about dreaming,” Cronenberg said. The Brazilian replied that he “dreamed the racetrack. It’s almost like I am practising the racetrack in my dreams.” Asked the same question, [Keke] Rosberg replied abruptly: “No. Why would I dream about the racetrack? I spend too much time of my waking life on the racetracks.” [...]

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Self-Flagellation

What is it with long flights and the bad terrible tragically awful films that I choose to watch? It’s not the carriers’ fault. Nowadays, all international carriers have screens on the back of the seats with hundreds of channels of choice at each traveller’s fingertips. So why’d I watch an eight-figure budgeted action comedy when [...]

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Choose

Whenever I think of narratives that escalate as exquisitely as Aliens, I think, I should blog about that – y’know, how character decision A leads to situation B which requires character decision C but whenever I sit down to write it, I keep flashing on this, from Pulp Fiction: INT. PAWNSHOP -- DAY Butch sneaks [...]

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How We Got Here

The latest abridged script‘s opening made me laugh out loud: EXT. LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES is getting ASS-FUCKED by ALIENS. VARIOUS MARINES IN HELICOPTERS (shouting) OO-RAH! LET’S GO GET THOSE ALIENS! AUDIENCE Yay, they’re getting directly into the action! Maybe this will do that good-movie thing of jumping right in and cleverly filling us in [...]

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