Extraordinary movie
When a City Falls is an extraordinary movie. The opening shots of the intact Christchurch cathedral before the quakes had me in tears. I remembered the excitement of running up the worn steeple steps...
View ArticleHugo Review: Movie and Book
Scorsese’s Hugo is a beautiful movie complement to Brian Selznick’s brilliant novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The book is in the style of a film, using pictures interspersed with tightly-wound...
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Silent Movies
Following up on my review of Hugo, here’s an excellent interview with the author Brian Selznick. The article describes Hugo as ‘a perpetual motion of correspondence‘ between book and film. Fascinating...
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The Little Things
The classic little sci-fi film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1958) was a metaphor for the atomic angst of the 1950s but it’s themes have not dated – Fukishima has revived fears of radioactive...
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Great movies 1. Rear Window
Rear Window (1954) has a superb script and acting, but its underlying strength is the use of set design and viewpoint to carry the theme. We’re trapped in a room for 99% of the movie and ‘forced’ to...
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Great Movies 2. A Matter of Life and Death
A Matter of Life and Death is both awesome and intimate, suggesting that a single tear shed for love might stop heaven in its tracks.- Roger Ebert A Matter of Life and Death (1946) is a romantic...
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The Most Important Relationship on Earth
It’s the most important relationship on Earth. Everything you taste and smell in Nature depends on pollinators who carry the essence of life. Pollination is ‘a love story that feeds the Earth.’ – Louie...
View ArticleBlack and White Film
I love black and white (b/w) film – the dream-like, yet oddly documentary aura. In her novel Fosterling, Emma Neale observes that the ‘yearning’ feeling of b/w film is ‘The melancholy recognition of...
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