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Digging deep for some picks this week, but nonetheless a collection of interesting movies, I think. I've been enmeshed in DVD Times reviews (a missed attempt at The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Walk Hard, the entirety of the Warner Gangsters Collection Vol. 3). The August schedule is now up on the TCM site and looks to have several interesting ob...
clydefro 09-05-2008 12:38
Sight & Sound's special issue, 'Cinema of the New Europe', was published this week. The coverdate is June 08, though the Andrzej Klimowski-designed cover makes it instantly recognisable from a fair distance.
As the title implies, it's an Eastern European special edition, including the following articles:
'Out of the Past' by Shane Dani...
Kinoblog 09-05-2008 11:17
I'm starting a new project for DVDTimes - I am going to build 'The Ultimate Home Cinema PC' using top of the range components and will take you through all of the steps needed to build a system capable of running anything you wish to throw at it. There will be no limitations on format - DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD will all be compatible and regions wo...
Colin's Film Journal 08-05-2008 10:08
Directed by: Jon Favreau
It’s the start of May, so it must be summer! Right? Well the sunglasses are out in Hollywood, as the first of the big summer releases hit theatres last weekend, hoping to grab an early share of audience blockbuster spending before the busy school holiday period kicks in. And it may just work. Iron Man reaches u...
Slate Scrawl 07-05-2008 23:51
1983 | Eddy Graham | 67 mins | DVD | U / G
Peter O'Toole is Sherlock Holmes (well, his voice) once again in this animated Conan Doyle adaptation from the '80s (see also my reviews of two others, The Sign of Four and A Study in Scarlet). Of course, this is an adaptation of that perennially popular Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and ...
100 Films in a Year 07-05-2008 23:28
"Some people say it didn't happen that way....."
I want to preface this piece by saying that Wyatt Earp is a film for which I've never had any particular fondness. However, having said that, I've just watched it again after making a conscious decision to try and keep an open mind, and hopefully be as objective as possible. I first saw th...
Riding the High Country 07-05-2008 21:27
Where have I been this last ten days or so you may be wondering and the short answer is offline. Thanks, apparently, to a technical problem that coincided with Virgin Media moving all the old NTL customers to a new server, I’ve been without internet access since the 26th April, as they were unable to sort the problem until the migration was compl...
Mine Was Taller 06-05-2008 23:58
Many met the return of the grand, large-scale historical epic with indifference, but for me it was a good thing. Though I would stop my life for two hours of film noir happily enough, nothing really beats a lush, three-hour marathon with a cast of thousands, vast ornate sets and soundtrack thundering throughout. In the fifties and sixties, the work...
The Big Whatsit 06-05-2008 13:19
One cinema visit this week, marked with a *. More next week.
Innocence (2004)
A seven year old girl appears barely dressed inside a coffin in a room in a school building in the middle of some woods surrounded by a wall. There are five other buildings in the grounds, each occupied by five girls between the ages of 7 and 12. When the seven year...
Nobody Knows Anything 05-05-2008 17:30