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Three February Movies

On February 21, 2010 By nick2209In movies1 Comment

Three fairly quick movie reports as I don't have much time these days. Easily the best both in terms of quality and enjoyment was Godard's Une Femme est Une Femme (1961) ; well that almost goes without saying. Godard's third film and his first in colour it is, by his standards, a lighthearted, even frothy …

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October Movies

On October 27, 2009October 27, 2009 By nick2209In movies1 Comment

Continuing my Godard viewing I come to his second film Le Petit Soldat (1960 but not released until 1963) starring Michel Subor and Anna Karina. The reason for the three-year delay between the making and release of the film was due to the fact that the French Government banned it because of its sensitive political content. Subor plays …

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Three August Movies

On August 20, 2009 By nick2209In movies3 Comments

The Cat's Meow (2001) directed by Peter Bogdanovich tells a story about the events which occurred in November 1924 during a cruise on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida. The official version of events is that Thomas Ince, silent film producer/mogul and 'father of the Western', one of the guests on the cruise, died of …

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July Miscellany (2009)

On July 30, 2009September 7, 2010 By nick2209In books, byron, movies, television, theatre4 Comments

I re-read, with more concentration, Caryl Churchill's Fen (1983). It is a remarkable piece of work mainly concerned with the lives of a number of women in a Fen village. There are a couple of male characters - Mr Tewson, the landowner, and Frank, for whom one of the women, Val, is leaving her husband and …

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