Well, this one is a little awkward, but only from the point of view of anyone who is reading back through the archives of my blog, because I talked about this film only two posts ago. It’s Pixar’s Up. I loved it. Simple, plain, uncynical, sense-of-wonder stuff that made me laugh and cry. Beautiful animation, [...]
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Up
October 12th, 2009 1 Comment
I went to see Pixar’s new release, “Up” at the cinema on Friday night. II appreciate that my friends in other parts of the world will have seen it months ago, because Pixar are apparently the only studio left who like treating England like second class citizens when it comes to release dates, but there’s [...]
Drowned in Sound
March 24th, 2009 No Comments
Specifically, Jon Boden’s completely superb new album “Songs From The Floodplain”. I have owned it for slightly over a week, after a friend recommended it, and I thought “it’s that chap out of Bellowhead, I ought to see what he does solo”. And as a result I appear to be developing a worrying obsession with [...]
Starting In A Way With Kontroll
February 2nd, 2008 No Comments
Topic: The one film I’d like to watch again for the very first time, suggested by Alasdair Stuart. Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian film, about ticket collectors on the Budapest underground, directed by Nimród Antal, who you might recognise as the guy that directed the more recent (and more mainstream) Vacancy. Which I forgot to see. [...]
