Tristram Shandy: A cock and bull story
I haven’t read the “book”:http://www1.gifu-u.ac.jp/~masaru/TS/contents.html so I can’t make any comment about the accuracy of this movie. What I can comment on is how much I enjoyed it; and enjoy it...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Truth
I should start by saying (no pun intended) that I was already warm to the idea of global warming. So, this film (doco) about “Al Gore”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore and his crusade to inform...
View ArticleWah-Wah
Still at the “festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz … This movie is a semi-autobiographical piece by “Richard E. Grant”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001290/ recounts a his life in Swaziland. Not...
View ArticleAnimation for kids
It’s going to be a busy weekend. We’re seeing five movies over the weekend. Today started off with more animation at the “film festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz/. The two best films were...
View ArticleThe Science of Sleep
So, having watched “The Method”:http://www.petersmith.org/diary/archives/2006/07/22/the-method.html we rushed down to the Civic for the 21:15 showing of “The Science of...
View ArticleKeane
Last movie of the weekend was Keane. Overall, I found it slow and overly long (maybe the two are connected). Two out of five stars.
View ArticleHow much do you love me?
This was the last file that we sent to see at the “film festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz/. Maybe I don’t _get_ French comedy, but I found the end of this film incompressible. It started off...
View ArticleThe Lives of Others
We went an saw the Oscar winning “The lives of others”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/ this evening. As “Mark Kermode”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kermode said, its good but “Pan’s...
View ArticleThe Pillowman
“Lisa”:http:/www.yellowoasis.org/ and I went to see “The Pillowman”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillowman tonight. It was marvellous. We both enjoy a black comedy and this was very black and...
View ArticleVideon or Vide-gone
For a long time (ever since I’ve been in Auckland) my preferred video store has been Videon. No matter where in Auckland I have lived, I have always used them. They’ve a great range (more than just...
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