I'm already dreading the lazy links forged between the 1930s and the upcoming trainwreck of a biopic film W.E, should we start seeing this decade permeate the A/W 12-3 season as the 1920s did for spring summer 12. Last season, we declared that it was Baz Luhrmann's not-yet-seen, not-yet-released film adaptation of The Great Gatsby… Continue reading So it Begins…
Straight Up
Paris has got the old houses tied up with conglomerates and swanky creative directors infrastructure down to a textbook pat. The weird downside to the set-in-stone establishment is that there's very little young blood in Paris. Quite literally I can only name a handful of names and even then, they tend not to be French… Continue reading Straight Up
Summertime A-Coming
>> A lazy afternoon spent meandering over the many MANY versions of Gershwin's Summertime thanks to this documentary on BBC4, has tricked me into thinking that hot and sweaty days are not too far away. To be fair, save for the few gusty days and one or two hours where I thought the temperature had… Continue reading Summertime A-Coming
Enter the Void
Who knew that a film that left my brain slightly damaged and broken down would still be permeating the blog a year on? Gaspard Noe's Enter the Void was a challenge to chug through in the cinema and left me feeling queasy, made worse by the fact that we saw a guy get run over… Continue reading Enter the Void