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The September Issue

Good Bye, Lenin!

The Bridge On The River Kwai

The Iron Lady

The Happening - I saw this tonight

WHAT? This is a truly unusual and uniquely odd film. It takes the concept of a mystery and then puts it in the wash with all the whites and a single red sock. It's not odd in any kind of arty sense. Wahlberg is playing a three year old. Zooey is abysmal. And I'm saying all of this as a fan of The Sixth Sense and Signs. Just.. huu-what?

May this film never be on the television ever. Don't bother.

...And Justice For All - I watched this tonight.

I admit that the disco music at the start of this film really threw me. It settles down and introduces typically shady legal types and people on the fringes of American society and gives us Arthur Kirkland to admire. Kirkland is played by Pacino and yes.. it's 1970s Pacino! I could actually watch him all day. It also featches George Bluth! But it's basically a one-man Pacino-show.

I have already forgotten the inevitable courtroom vocal explosion (he's not from the Deep South) but I'm pretty sure it goes something like this:

"I'm out of order? YOU'RE out of order. The whole system is out of order. You're off the page, chief!
You want the truth? It's Chinatown, Marge." or something to that effect.



Was this the basis for all those two-o-clock-in-the-weekday-afteroon legal things that I skipped past in my childhood? I certainly wouldn't show it at two o'clock on a weekday afternoon, anyway.

MAJORLY want this poster!

Bent - watched it today

I feel that I have wrecked it a bit by not seeing it on the stage.. Everything about it seemed like it would work better as a theatre piece. Clive Owen always seems pissed off with the people he loves in films, doesn't he?

Deeply sad film, but then, it's supposed to be, isn't it? It deals with the prisoners and victims of the Holocaust who were marked with a pink triangle. The lowest of them all, according to the film. It's upsetting and harrowing but I would like to see it in the theatre if it comes to town.

Star Wars Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith - watched it yesterday

The 3D Graphics police called. This film is under arrest. One day in the distant future the six Star Wars films will look like they belong together. The 3D Graphics errors obviously visible when Obi-Wan is riding that giant lizard thing will seem as silly as Darth Vader pointing at people as if he was their school teacher.

It's actually a really sad film. I had forgotten about just how sad it was. I think I only really remembered the starfighters and the Jedi being offed by the clones and not the "I HATE YOU" at the end. Jesus.

Anyway, for more on starfighters, click here:

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R.I.P. Kit Fisto ;_;

The French Connection.. I saw it today!

Popeye Doyle brought a new meaning to that oft-repeated phrase "Ugh.. PURE HASSLE". Really felt for him. Gene Hackman is the bomb shizzle. I really want to see more of him.

Quote from The King on The Beatles from John Lennon: The Life

The good luck telegram that so thrilled the Beatles before their second Ed Sullivan Show had, in fact, been sent as a PR gesture by Presley's wily manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Initially, Presley had been baffled by their music and repulsed by their hair and clothes, complaining that they looked like 'a bunch of faggots'.

Not cool, Elv.

Norman, Philip. 2008. John Lennon: The Life.

Quote on zombies from The Satanic Verses

Some days he finds himself among walking corpses, great crowds of the dead, all of them refusing to admit they’re done for, corpses mutinously continuing to behave like living people, shopping, catching buses, flirting, going home to make love, smoking cigarettes. But you’re dead, he shouts at them. Zombies, get into your graves. They ignore him, or laugh, or look embarrassed, or menace him with their fists. He falls silent, and hurries on.

Rushdie, Salman. 1988. The Satanic Verses.

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