23 July, 2011 at 1.55 pm
This is going to be a really fun review to write because Waste Land features a very famous and an amazing contemporary artist, Vik Muniz.
Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist from Sao Paulo who currently lives and works in New York. His work came to attention on an international scale with his series “Sugar Children” in 1996, portraits of the children of sugar labourers in St. Kitts made out of sugar.
Big James Sweats Buckets, from the series "Sugar Children", Vik Muniz, 1996
Since then Vik Muniz has been known for creating pieces out of [...]
16 May, 2011 at 5.27 am
Last night we watched L’Illusionniste, an animated drama directed by Sylvain Chomet and based on a script written by mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1958. The story revolves around a magician who meets a girl in rural Scotland who believes that he is a real magician, and how they impact on each others lives. What makes L’Illusionniste so beautiful is that it’s a very sad film. Apparently Tati wrote the script as an open letter to his estranged daughter and the film reflects an exhaustive and complicated father-daughter relationship.
taking a stroll down Princes Street
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16 March, 2011 at 6.58 am
I didn't take this photograph. Nor did this happen in Beijing. But something very similar did.
All those in HK I suggest you go on see the Whitest Boy Alive on Thursday (17th).
They had quite a few technical problems/synthesizer problems/disagreements with the lighting guy, but it all worked out in the end and they were amazing. Actually the synthesizer not working should have been devastating but Daniel Nentwig is an amazing keyboardist, and I don’t think it detracted from the show in any way.
I also didn't take this photograph of Erlend Øye, and I'm going [...]
31 March, 2010 at 6.09 am
Things go boom in The Hurt Locker
I’ve been thinking about doing a post for awhile so I thought reviewing The Hurt Locker would be a good way to provide my lacking contribution to this blog. I’ll just start by stating that it’s one of the best films I have seen in a long time and I’m not a fan of war films (unless it’s some WW2 romance flick, I always fall for that shit). It follows a Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, focusing mainly on three individuals in the team and how they operate together.
I’m glad [...]
27 March, 2010 at 11.23 pm
Okay, so the Blind Side is finally out in the UK after all the Oscars hype. I have no idea what I can really say about it. I can’t tell if it was good, or fairly patronising. I know the fact that it was lapped up in the US probably indicates that it was a fairly patronising film. A rich, white, Southern, Christian family take in a poor black boy from the Projects and teach him how to play football, and how to get good grades, and how to live his life. Granted, this is based on a true [...]
16 February, 2010 at 5.27 pm
photo courtesy of Miss Rosie Isaac
Click here to read my review!
31 January, 2010 at 12.28 pm
Romance is Boring is the third album of Los Campesinos!, a seven piece band based in Cardiff. The album follows Now Hold on Youngsters… and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.
The first thing I thought when listening to this album was how my mother would probably only ever describe the music as being “noise”. Which I suppose is an accurate description, though I would mean it in a completely different way than my mother would. As a seven piece band, what you get is a few guitars, drums, a glockenspiel, a couple of keyboards, a [...]
14 December, 2009 at 11.35 pm
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE – a review
“It’s going to be a place where only the things you’d want to happen, would happen.”
It’s hard to explain how beautiful Where The Wild Things Are is, especially when a bunch of teenage boys kept on walking in and out during the entire thing, before finally deciding that they should all stage a walk out. For a film based on a children’s book, and largely aimed at children, it’s strangely serious, and in some [...]
2 October, 2009 at 4.24 am
As someone who loves anything that has anything to do with musicals, this was a HUGE dissappointment.
I knew I shouldn’t have gotten too excited when I found out that the tried to “modernise” the music, but I told they were trying to stick more closely to the stage production than the film, so I allowed myself to hope.
4 years of highschool are covered in around 1 and a half hours. And with around 8 main characters, this translates into a very poor coverage of their development over the years. One second they’re auditioning, the [...]
27 September, 2009 at 5.27 pm
南京！南京！(Nanjing! Nanjing!) or The City of Life and Death is a film directed and written by Lu Chuan (陸川). The film took 4 years to complete and was released earlier this year. It was a box office success, yet has sparked some controversy in China.
The film is a dramatisation of what is often referred to as the Nanjing Massacre – The Japanese invasion of Nanjing during the years 1937-1938. To give a brief history of the event, after taking Shanghai, the Japanese forces attacked Nanjing, the then capital of the Nationalist Party. City officials, families [...]
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