Archive for August, 2008
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Fuori Orario
My previous post concerned that odd television programme, Fuori Orario. It’s broadcast on Italian channel Rai Tre late at night. It’s shown nightly for a couple of minutes. Monday nights the show is longer and a documentary is shown. But the real stuff is broadcast during weekends. Fridays and Saturdays Fuori Orario kicks off between [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Television by Kurtodrome
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Focus
Fuori Orario’s sexually themed weekend was a bit strange. Not because of the subject, but because of its execution. On Friday night the transmission started with such a delay the programme was different from what had been promised in the tv guide. Still the two movies they’d planned to show (the homosexual drama Sex in [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
2008, so far…
Time now for our annual tradition of our Summer Check-up of This Year’s Movies. Alright, so I’ve never done this before, but every annual tradition has to start once, no? Seven months of 2008 have flown by, let’s look at the good films they’ve given us so far.
1. JUNO (8)
Best film of the year? I [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Best of Year, Mini Review by Kurtodrome
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
The Strangers
It may be one of the best lines I’ve heard in a while. Picture yourself, a couple, bound to chairs and three masked figures standing near you, holding knives. Ask them: “Why are you doing this?” Hear the reply: “Because you were at home.”
The line belongs to the movie The Strangers and it’s out in [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Eye Candy, Review by Kurtodrome
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Monster at the Soda Shop
The Fifties teenager is one of the most recognizable images from that decade. From James Dean, tormented in his screaming red jacket in Rebel Without a Cause, to John Travolta, embodying a Seventies’ black-leather fantasy of the Fifties teen in Grease, the images tell us what we all know: that the 1950s gave birth to [...]
