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Comment on In The Shadow Of The Multiplex Experience – An Interview With Mark Kermode by In The Shadow Of The Multiplex Experience – An Interview With Mark Kermode Part 2 «

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:24:07 +0000

[...] Here’s the second part of our chat, which is essentially the pair of us talking about Paul Thomas Anderson movies and Goodfellas. For part one of the interview, click here. [...]

Comment on The Sound of The Shining by tif-ni

tif-ni — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:40:09 +0000

Thanks for posting the Bartok clip! I was curious about the use of Bartok in the film but haven’t gotten over my fear of watching the movie yet…

Comment on Coulda Been a Contender…. Night Skies, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 2 and Gremlins by Strannik

Strannik — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:38:43 +0000

I can’t help but think that, in the alternate universe where Spielberg did make the E.T. sequel, he’s probably as love/hated as George Lucas.

Overall – an interesting, very informative piece, as usual

Comment on The Devil You Know… Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior by Monday Blu(e)s and DVD «

Monday Blu(e)s and DVD « — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:00:47 +0000

[...] Our original review of Warrior can be found here. [...]

Comment on In Defence Of… Point Break by magiclanternfilmclub

magiclanternfilmclub — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:53:50 +0000

Nice article, Damon! Watched Point Break again recently and found it as wonderfully preposterous on the small screen as it did first time round on the big one. Everyone is going for full-on mugging, Lori Petty as lurve interest and Antony Kiedis from the Red hot Chili Peppers can hardly keep their faces straight, and right at the end you truly expect Keanu to flip into Bill & Ted mode, “Vaya con Dios….DUDE” (he doesn’t actually say that but he might as well)
Marvellous.

Comment on Chaplin Week – A Countess From Hong Kong by Update – The Hope Lies Universal 100 «

Update – The Hope Lies Universal 100 « — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:00:49 +0000

[...] of. There will be an in-depth piece on Alex Cox’s Repo Man up over the next few hours, while we made a case for Charlie Chaplin’s A Countess From Hong Kong a few weeks back. Wagon Master is great fun [...]

Comment on Griffith’s Storm – The Birth Of A Nation by Tim Popple

Tim Popple — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:46:14 +0000

This was the first silent film I ever saw, back 1999 when I was studying film, briefly. It was another 9 years before I watched another silent film.
Anyway, we watched it in the lecture, not long after The Phantom Menace was released. SPOILERS FOR BIRTH OF A NATION – When the black people chase the girl off the cliff, she’s incomprehensibly still alive at the bottom. When the father reaches her, and she dies in his arms, he looks up with murder in his eyes and, beautifully timed if I do say so myself, in my best Darth Sidious voice I growled, “wipe them out, all of them”.
It was the best bit of the film.

Comment on Méliès Reborn – Martin Scorsese’s Hugo by LA INVENCIÓN DE MÉLIÈS « MyTrend

LA INVENCIÓN DE MÉLIÈS « MyTrend — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:25:10 +0000

[...] http://hopelies.com/2011/12/04/melies-reborn-martin-scorseses-hugo/ [...]

Comment on Truffaut at 80 by magiclanternfilmclub

magiclanternfilmclub — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:52:10 +0000

Aaah…made me want to see this again (and all the others for that matter..)
Lovely, lovely photo too.
Merci!

Comment on The Hope Lies Film Of 2011 – The Tree Of Life by Monday Blu(e)s and DVD «

Monday Blu(e)s and DVD « — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:02:20 +0000

[...] – Paddy Considine’s directorial debut was the highest placed British film in our top ten of last year; an achievement all the more impressive when one considers that 2011 was such a vintage year for [...]