Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 24th, 2006
The Story of Film (Mark Cousins)
I confess I don’t own a lot of movie books. I often find them too specialized. Mark Cousins wrote The Story of Film, a brave attempt to talk about all the movies made from 1895 to now, not just from Hollywood and the UK, but also from Europe, Asia and Africa.
The question is, can [...]
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
Adrift: let’s drown this baby
Adrift is a German movie that has just been released. Only it’s no longer called Adrift, the title has been changed to Open Water 2.
This makes perfect sence: just like Open Water, this movie is set on sea and features people floating in the water. Okay, this set of floaters has nothing to do with [...]
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Tideland
Terry Gilliam had become more of a non-director than a director: his trouble with making his Don Quijote movie was so epic they made a movie about it (Lost in La Mancha). So Tideland came nothing too soon.
But what to think of Tideland?
I’ve just seen it and I think it’s hard to make up my [...]
