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10 Great Filmmakers’ Top 10 Favorite Movies 1 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
Kubrick, Scorsese, Coppola’s top 10 movies of all time. A lot of Fellini.
Lore 31 Jul 2013 | 07:28 pm
There is a murder scene in Lore which simultaneously inhabits the world of war where this is acceptable and the post war one where it is not. The movie itself spills out of these two worlds and so bre...
WTF happened to Smashing Telly? 15 Jul 2010 | 09:41 am
Two things: it was taking up too much of my time for something which I felt was half-assed since the niche for picking the good full length stuff out of google seemed to disappear after Hulu, Netflix ...
Every Tarkovsky Movie Online for Free 15 Jul 2010 | 09:19 am
Kottke writes: “If Smashing Telly were still going, this would be perfect for it: every feature-length Andrei Tarkovsky film is available for viewing online for free.” Voice of mysterons: “In…deed”. S...
What Darwin didn’t Know 28 Sep 2009 | 07:21 pm
The BBC iPlayer link is here. [Note this is not the creationist nonsense of the same name] What Darwin didn’t know was exactly how right about natural selection he was. This is a great documentary, no...
Tarkovsky’s Cinema 3 Aug 2009 | 11:44 pm
I have low tolerance for self indulgent artsyness and Tarkovsky films look superficially like they might be in this category, which is a shame because, as Tony the Tiger might say, they’re great. Noth...
Hallmarks In British Ingenuity Presents: The Mellotron 29 Jul 2009 | 03:33 pm
The Mellotron M400 in lucite. Gorgeous…. With the possible exception of a Gibson Les Paul or SG running riot through an overdriven Leslie speaker, there is no more glorious sound than that of a Mello...
Paris is Burning 29 Jul 2009 | 06:13 am
This is a documentary about vogueing, and the extremely refined and detailed aesthetic sensibilities it reflects, shot in New York City around Chelsea and the Meatpacking District in the late 80s. The...
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) 27 Jul 2009 | 10:01 am
The Crystal’s “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)“, caused a storm of protest when it was released in 1962, and its ambiguous sentiment underlies ‘It Felt Like a Kiss’, Adam Curtis’ new film. It is a...
Cyclists Special 23 Jul 2009 | 08:37 am
This film is from 1955. It depicts, or appears to (I have no idea if it's all a fantasy), a cycling idyll, during a postwar period in England when the bicycle was a working man's (and woman's?) transp...
