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DOWN BY THE JETTY WITH THE 12 MONKEYS

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September 15, 2012

LA JETÉE directed by Chris Marker (France, 1962)
12 MONKEYS directed by Terry Gilliam (USA, 1995)

Chris Marker's The Jettygilliam's 12 monkeysIf you have a good story, you don’t need elaborate sets or A-list actors. This is probably why most Science Fiction works better in books or graphic novels than in big budget movies. These two movies illustrate this point perfectly.

They each tell the same story but in very different ways. In both, a time traveller is sent on a mission from the future to find the origin of a deadly virus that has all but wiped out the human race. Continue reading →

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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS: QUELLE MERDE!

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January 9, 2012

What do you mean, you don’t want to wear my hat?

Let me start by saying that I used to be a huge fan of Woody Allen movies. In the late 1970s and 1980s, I would make a point of seeing his annual release as soon as it came out.

But  I could never quite see him in the same light again after the scandal in 1992 when he left Mia Farrow for their adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn when she was 21 and he was 56.  I don’t think of myself as prudish, but I lost respect for him and all those scenes in his films where an attractive young woman falls for an older guy suddenly took on a more squalid aspect. I found I couldn’t enjoy his movies the way I once did.

I was ,however, fully prepared to overcome my prejudices and join the throng who are raving about his latest movie, Midnight In Paris. This has received universal critical acclaim and is even tipped as a possible Oscar winner.

But I have to count myself in a minority here as I found the movie shallow, smug and deeply irritating. Continue reading →

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ABOUT TIME

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April 17, 2010

The Time Traveller’s Wife is the story of Clare and Henry. Clare, like the novel’s author Audrey Niffenegger, is a visual artist, while Henry is a disappearing artist. More specifically he disappears in time – travelling mainly into the past. This enables him to meet his Clare, his future wife, for the first time when he is 24 and she is 5. The pedophilic implications of this are initially worrying, particularly since only Henry’s body and not his clothes can travel in time.  However, this is not a book for about moral corruption but is fundamentally a conventional love story, albeit with the temporal twists. Continue reading →

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