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Writer for The Herald, The Sunday Post, Nutmeg & anyone else who will have me. Getting on a bit. Contact me @ [email protected]
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Which inevitably leads me to Aaron Neville's take on Mickey Mouse March, a reminder of what a great singer can do with any base material
youtu.be/97PF7tNsEio?...
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The House on Haunted Hill (William Castle, 1959)
Amazingly never seen it before. Junk, but Vincent Price & Carol Olhmart are having fun as a murderous couple. Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House used for exteriors. Interiors disappointingly Victorian. & are skeletons ever scary?
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Feb 27: Nighthawks (Bruce Malmuth, 1981) Merits one par in Nick de Semleyn's Last Action Heroes. Seems plenty. But it has grungy sense of early 80s New York - 1 shot is a Joel Meyerowitz photo come to life - & scene of the chopper hovering by Roosevelt tram is quite something. As is that last scene
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Feb 26: Four Mothers (Darren Thornton, 2024)
There are still tickets available for its Scottish premiere @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social on Monday/Tuesday (just one for Monday). It's v sweet. & funny.
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Feb 25: Two Cars, One Night (Taika Waititi, 2003)
Dipping into Cinema 16 DVD set (double bill with Yamakawa's Attack the Bakery). Just 11 minutes long but distinctively Waititiesque in its humour. Camera movements suggest he was watching a lot of Scorsese.
youtu.be/N5Wf1L0aIks
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Feb 24: Paperboys (Mike Mills, 2001) Mills' shortish doc plays with American iconography & coincidentally charts the impact of hip-hop on middle America. A where are they now feature overdue.
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Feb 22: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Haven't seen it for years. Perhaps it was a mistake not to realise the film's heartbreak would now map onto my own grief a little too much. The last/first memory sequence hits even harder as a result
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(Always have time for this though) youtu.be/1LmvAUmvLA4?...
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In short, a film not as comfortable as its characters. I spoke to James Ivory in 2023
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2334292...
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Feb 21: A Room With a View (James Ivory, 1985)
40 years already & so many of the cast gone (Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott &, yes, Julian Sands). The violence in the square, George swooping in to catch Lucy as she faints, then swooping in for a kiss in the barleyfield, Cecil's genuine heartbreak
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Feb 18: The Revenge of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1958)
Never really got the cult of Fisher. Or the cult of Hammer for that matter. Cushing always better when he plays a villain, but this is draggy & dull. Amusingly amoral, I guess.
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That should be Feb 16, duh.
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Jan 16: Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, 2024) A film that aches for closure but is too honest to give it.
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John Mahoney's line "I'm too old for me, that's my predicament." & the moment at the airport when Danny Aiello looks at his hand and flinches (he's seeing the accident again; the accident we don't know about yet). I just noticed that look this time, even though I've seen the movie a dozen times
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Jan 14: Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987) Phoned my friend V and asked, "Has your husband arranged anything for Valentine's Night?" She started laughing. "Come and see Moonstruck with me then."
The joy of the Cher transformation scene, Nic Cage going for it from his very first scene...
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But if you can't wait, it's already online.
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
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Anyone else seen Hardcover?
youtu.be/x159t6xMlMs?...
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Walking and Talking (Nicole Holofcener, 1996)
Made me nostalgic for video stores. The hours I spent in the one in Cowane Street in Stirling. The junk I watched as a result
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This hit hard when I was 12
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Feb 12: Babygirl (Halina Reijn, 2024)
It's a film about corporate architecture, right?
(Nicole Kidman should have turned up at the rave wearing a Michael Douglas green V-neck sweater, just for the smiles)
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Feb 11: Baby Assassins Nice Day. Japanese teen reimagining of John Wick. Action sequences six parts brutal, four parts contemporary dance. One to catch @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social at the beginning of March.
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Feb 10: Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
"Moja sestra ..."
Fear and desire and shadows around the swimming pool. Basically, don't mess with Serbian girls.