Not that this requires a great deal from me, as it’s not as if I still had to post my reviews of the films I saw last year.
I’ve been surreptitiously updating the site to include my reviews of the films I saw at last years EIFF, and got slightly distracted by the vast number of cinema tickets I’ve accumulated.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival opened it’s box office today, so I spent my lunch booking my summer holiday. 22 films, fairly miscellaneous – actually 18 films, two of their animated short film collections and two real-live people events…
You can probably tell that I’m flagging, right? I couldn’t think of anything to write about the World Animation 2 selection, and by the time I got through today’s four films, I was only able to write about two of them. Oops…
Another indie film about the lives of failing writers – in this case, turning to a life of crime in addition to flirting with the girl of his dreams.
OK, it’s true – I don’t know enough (read: anything) about the 1956 revolution in Hungary, so I can’t really judge the accuracy of the film (as with I served the King of England) I mean, I know there was a revolution, I know tanks were involved – it was in the news last year [...]
Aw, bless
Another indulgence, but after all, Richard is theatre, literature and cinema’s quintessential anti-hero, and never more so than in Olivier’s gloriously all-out performance, the complete antithesis of his Henry V. I don’t really have anything to say about it (I’m obsessed with the character, the play, this film, even Al Pacino’s documentary about the play, [...]
I don’t really know why I do this to myself…
More than OK…