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Breton Breton Breton
10 February 2010Breton are Fox & Firkin regulars and favourites, putting on an amazing performance at FoxFest 2009 (I’m sure we’ll be seeing them in 2010 as well). Roman’s nipples added to the excitement (maybe we’ll see them again too).
If you don’t know the band, I thoroughly recommend you watch VIRAL, a two minute film that has [...]
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Closer
17 December 2007‘Closer’, directed by Mike Nichols
‘Closer’ poses a single, wrenching question, articulated by one of its principals in the story’s dying moments, just as the full import of its narrative has hit you viscerally, in the stomach, invoking waves of nausea to pummel you with a force that can only be generated by unwavering submission to [...]
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Crime and Punishment
24 October 2007‘Crime and Punishment’, directed by Lev Kulidzhanov
Although the impulse to create a cinematic rendering of a literary masterpiece may be born of a commendable desire to introduce it to a wider audience, a director must be confident that the essence of that great work is indeed transferable across media. Unfortunately, Crime and Punishment is not [...]
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Red Road
24 October 2007‘Red Road, directed by Andrea Arnold
‘Red Road’ is the first of three films under the ‘Advance Party’ banner of Lars von Trier which will see the same actors playing the same characters in each. Von Trier has said that “a film should be like a rock in the shoe”, an uncomfortable and challenging experience, a [...]
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My letter in the Guardian
5 October 2006film.guardian.co.uk
Like so many before him, Erlan Idrissov has grossly misinterpreted the comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen (Offensive and unfair, Borat’s antics leave a nasty aftertaste, 4 October).
Just as the target of the character Ali G is not young black men, but those who are ignorant enough to believe that his charicature is a fair representation [...]
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