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It Might Get Loud: 3 Men & an Amplifier
4th January 2010 | 2 comments | 3 people like this
Davis Guggenheim leaves the brain battering Powerpoint presentation of a documentary that was The Inconvenient Truth in the dust to make a simple film about three guitarists getting together to discuss the instrument they love.
I'm sure the thought of Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White sitting in a room together would have even the most modest player salivating on their pick guard, but does the film have anything to... -
Nowhere Boy: A Tale of Two Mothers
4th January 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
I was listening to John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band LP yesterday after watching Sam Taylor Wood's impressive directorial debut about the teenage years of the most discussed and arguably most loved of the fab four. The always painful opener "Mother" somehow sounded deeper and even more sad. The hopeless wailing, angry vocal about his only parent makes for a small window into the relationship that almost passed both of them...
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Synecdoche New York: The Film of 2009
21st December 2009 | 8 comments | 3 people like this
Rather than hit up another top ten list of films from the last 12 months (mine would probably include The White Ribbon, A Prophet, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Milk, Fish Tank, A Serious Man and Encounters at the End of the World amongst others) I instead decided to put one egg in one basket.
Its a weird egg too so I must apologise.You know one of those ones with two yolks in... -
The Cove: The Flipside of Flipper
18th December 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Richard O’Barry is the man who trained Flipper; The Lassie of the sea and surprisingly, in the opening moments of The Cove the man who believes that by sparking the public interest in these fascinating creatures, he is directly responsible for the way the species is treated, bought and sold today.
The Cove takes us to a small beach near Taiji, in Wakayama, Japan, which O’Barry has discovered is actually a... -
Raging Against the Machine?
15th December 2009 | 8 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
As was the case last year when <insert 2008 Xfactor winner name (when I can be bothered to look it up) here> was nearly debunked by Jeff Buckley's sublime cover of Leonard Cohen's hallelujah (Cohen himself got swept up in it also I believe and made it to the mid 30's), a similar upset laden beast has emerged from the swampy depths of Facebook.
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The Top Ten Albums of 2009
14th December 2009 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
10. The Dodos - Time to Die
Though sadly still, not a patch on the staggering Visiter, The Dodos headed for clean cut Shins/Fleet Foxes producer Phil Ek to make their third record Time to Die as a three piece. I thought (and still do a little) that the album suffers slightly without the rough edges that made their previous efforts so alive and human.
But in saying that it was only... -
Avatar: Average & Spectacular
14th December 2009 | 8 comments | 3 people like this
James Cameron has always, honestly, made me go "wow". Watching from behind a cushion as Arnie popped his ruined eyeball into sink, grinning from ear to ear every time I watched Ripley fight the Alien queen sometime around 3am on channel 4 for the 3,000th time or seeing T1000's metallic bullet wounds heal over and that little smile curl his lips. Yet, oddly and as much as I love those...
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Micheal Haneke: Masterclasses in Fear
3rd December 2009 | 4 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The first time I saw a Micheal Haneke film I was fourteen. Late at night I stumbled across a story, whose title I had missed, about a somewhat reclusive young boy obsessed with violent images, including his own home made video of a pig being killed on a relatives’ farm. A deconstruction of the media, it's violent draw and the moral reactions of those who rely on it's power unfolds...
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Terrence Malick: The Reluctant Auteur
24th November 2009 | 13 comments | 2 people like this
The furious way that the beautiful free flowing style which Terrence Malick has curated over his career is talked about often disguises the fact that he has made just four features and one (some people say two), rare as hens teeth, shorts. So, after only a hand full of features in 37 years what is it about the director that has celluloid lovers chomping at the bit.
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Orphan: Who’s a good girl, then?
20th November 2009 | 4 comments | 3 people like this
Jaume Collet-Serra's horror/thriller Orphan certainly treads familiar territory. Imperfect parents Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) head off to the local orphanage to adopt a brother or sister for their two children. With Kate's recent still birth and bouts of alcoholism and infidelity playing heavily in the backstory the pair settle, as much as you don't want them too, on the obviously odd, charming and artistic Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman),...
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Neil Innes
Neil was born in the UK but weaned on cinema in the world's most isolated capital city (Perth, Australia). He moved to london in 2001 where he works as a film editor and writer. He has travelled widely and is passionate about cinema and music and can often be found waiting on line in the Brixton Sainbury's. This column is a little celluloid-like piece of him.
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