Sunday, 27 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Summer is in the air
Here's what I'm excited about......
the smell of summer and the first rays of sunshine penetrating London's grey blanket of cloud for the first time in a very long time.
and this:
the smell of summer and the first rays of sunshine penetrating London's grey blanket of cloud for the first time in a very long time.
and this:
STARRING:
My beloved Strokes
The Arcade Fire (yes it is 'the' - that's how Win introduced them when I saw them last year)
Blink 1 8 fucking 2
Bright Eyes
Two Door Cinema Club
Lykke Li
Band of Horses
woooooooooooo!
Labels:
Arcade fire,
music,
party,
the Strokes
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Bloody brilliant mate
Hæven (In a Better World) is a superb recent film by Danish director Sussane Bier which won Best Foreign Language Film at this year Oscars. The film is quintessentially Scandinavian – intelligent, beautiful and emotionally restrained. And it is heavy in the enjoyable sense of the term.
Labels:
screen
Monday, 14 March 2011
Marty up to some news tricks
I love Martin Scorsese. Many of his films - Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Age of Innocence - are among my favourite and I think his understated storytelling is magical.
Marty's latest creation is a HBO show about prohibition era America, the fascinating decade when the American government banned alcohol. As Boardwalk Empire shows, the illegalisation of liquor had no effect on the amount of it that was drunken (alchol consumption in fact increased during the prohibion years). Rather, a black market for alcohol made a bunch of gangsters rich, and these bootleggers are the protagonists of Scorsese's latest venture.
Although Marty only directed the (world's most expensive ever) pilot episode, he is involved with the show as a producer. The characters teeter on the edge of good and evil in a manner that is trademark Scorsese. Starring hot-as-hell Michael Pitt as a jaded World War I veteran, and the unfailable Steve Bucemi as crooked Atlantic City mayor Nucky Thompson, the show is well-acted, well-conceived and well worth checking out.
Marty's latest creation is a HBO show about prohibition era America, the fascinating decade when the American government banned alcohol. As Boardwalk Empire shows, the illegalisation of liquor had no effect on the amount of it that was drunken (alchol consumption in fact increased during the prohibion years). Rather, a black market for alcohol made a bunch of gangsters rich, and these bootleggers are the protagonists of Scorsese's latest venture.
Although Marty only directed the (world's most expensive ever) pilot episode, he is involved with the show as a producer. The characters teeter on the edge of good and evil in a manner that is trademark Scorsese. Starring hot-as-hell Michael Pitt as a jaded World War I veteran, and the unfailable Steve Bucemi as crooked Atlantic City mayor Nucky Thompson, the show is well-acted, well-conceived and well worth checking out.
Labels:
history,
Martin Scorsese,
screen
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Monday, 7 March 2011
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