Dave Grohl’s Sound City Nostalgia
Friday, March 8th, 2013Sound City, Dave Grohl’s documentary on a Hollywood recording studio doesn’t promise much, on the surface, and yet it turns out to be a heartfelt and eloquent history of something that, with the digital revolution, we seem to have lost – sound. The film doesn’t promise much?Have I gone mad?? It’s got Dave Grohl (of [...]
Hurling the little streets on the great – Gorbaciof
Saturday, February 18th, 2012While everyone’s getting caught up in the buzz about The Artist, I have a shameful confession to make: silent movies have always bored the bunions off of me – as a child I gnashed my teeth in despair when Charlie Chaplin or, god forbid, Harold Lloyd came on the television. That’s not to write off [...]
Mute Points: A Love Letter to Silent Artists
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012I remember the first time I saw Nosferatu. I was 15 and in the full throws of gothic angst – complete with importance, poetry and pianos. The dramatic German Expressionist stylings of Murnau’s Carpathian landscape, therefore, offered the ideal genre –especially when it came to an extremely teen-friendly subject…..vampires. Made in 1921 in the extremely [...]
Kinsey
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Biopic of the American sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon. Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, and Peter Sarsgaard.
Starsky and Hutch
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Movie version of 70′s classic – starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson,Vince Vaughn and Snoop Doggy Dogg. Directed by Todd Philips.
Munich
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Director:Steven Spielberg
Cast: Erich Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Ciaran Hinds,
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011The true story of a failed assassination attempt on Richard Nixon, Directed by Nils Mueller and starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Don Cheadle.
School of Rock
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011American Comedy Starring Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack
Directed by Richard Linklater
La Bestia nel Cuore
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Director: Cristina Comencini.
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Alessio Boni, Stefania Rocca, Angela Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Battiston, Luigi Lo Cascio, Francesca Inaudi.
Bridget Jones. The Edge of Reason.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Follow up to the hugely succesful Diary of Bridget Jones, starring Renee Zellwegger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth. Directed by Richard Curtis.
