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  • I’m Gonna Explode: Godard in Mexico

    I’m Gonna Explode: Godard in Mexico

    4th January 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    When I saw Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna's names as producers on at the front of Gerardo Naranjo's I'm Going to Explode I immediately got a sense of what might be in store. Young love, beautiful outcasts and a sun bleached road trip. I'm not sure what that says about the pair or the definitive themes in Mexican Cinema itself which has been blooming since the late nineties; But...

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  • Nowhere Boy: A Tale of Two Mothers

    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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  • Film Review: Katalin Varga, a low budget winner?

    Film Review: Katalin Varga, a low budget winner?

    20th October 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Peter Strickland's debut feature, made from inheritance money of £25,000 and shot in Hungary nearly 2 years ago, in a language he hardly spoke, seems, from the out set, a film which more than many independents even, could have never seen the light of day. The fact that it did is a real testament to the spirit of film making which feels like it's becoming rarer every day. After filming...

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  • Little Scene: Roman Polanski’s The Tenant

    Little Scene: Roman Polanski’s The Tenant

    5th October 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Whether you see Roman Polanski as a dirty old man or as a masterpiece making auteur, watching him going mad, dressing in full drag and cooing “I'm pregnant!” towards the camera probably isn't going to change your mind either way. Its terrifying and hilarious no matter which side of the fence you sit. The Tenant, the last film in a loose trilogy dealing with urban loneliness at its most horrific,...

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  • Julia: Tilda Swinton’s Broken Bird

    Julia: Tilda Swinton’s Broken Bird

    1st September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    The words Tilda Swinton and knockout performance are nearly always within the same sentence these days. Powerful and complex roles, including a career best (and Oscar winning) performance in the excellent Michael Clayton, are coming thick and fast for the Scottish wonder woman. However, the unconventionally beautiful, almost androgynous, actress was hand picked by director Erick Zonda for the role of a down and out self obsessed, alcoholic, one night...

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Neil Innes

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.