where you going? Nowhere who are you going with? No one when will you be back? Later
PREFACE
This is the sporadically updated blog of reviews by Harriet, author of In the Aquarium: a londoner's life.
I have kept the reviews separate to enable them to be indexed and therefore more easily accessible (see listing below).
FAVE FILMS DEAD MAN What an idea, the man is dying for almost the entire length of the film, the music is fantastic, its black and white, ideology, mythology, funny, sad, Johnny Depp sex god...
THE DRAFTMAN'S CONTRACT The first Peter Greenaway film I saw and possibly the most accessible. Beautiful set, costumes, direction. Fantastic soundtrack.
MULHOLLAND DRIVE I knew exactly what was going on right up until the last 15 minutes and damn it but then I lost it.
NIGHT ON EARTH Jim Jarmusch made the only film with Winona Ryder worth watching and it had Beatrice Dalle (say no more)
O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? Roar out loud with laughter and tunes that make you love country music. My sister had to sneak out of the cinema ahead of our dad and me cos she was so embarrassed at our laughing.
ORLANDO Quiet, passionate, time travel.
PITCH BLACK Bails and I watched this with its bleached scenery and its whoar factor star. We LOVED him, Mr Diesel take a bow.
RESERVOIR DOGS Tight Tarantino gang heist gone wrong. Great soundtrack. And there's something about Michael Madson, dancing just before cutting off the cop's ear...
ROMUALD ET JULIETTE Truely lovely romance comedy.
THREE COLOURS TRILOGY Blue, White and Red. I liked them all. Quiet stories, beautifully shot.
THE USUAL SUSPECTS Its a story told. And the first time I saw it I didn't get the twist until just before it happened.
Seen The Reviews
Monday 19 March 2007 The Rose Tattoo National Theatre
Tennessee Williams play about a woman whose husband dies, her descent into grief and her rediscovery of life. Language and humour. Zoe Wannamaker was excellent in the lead, Susanna Fielding playing her daughter wasn't quite so convincing (a confusion of accents). A play about love, passionate love. The burning desires of it when young and when older.
Saturday 17 March 2007 Premonition Woodgreen Showcase
I quite like Sandra Bullock. Don't really know what to say about this film. It wasn't exactly nice. Quite disturbing in many ways, twists and turns, some shocks. And then in the end it turned out alright, her husband still died but she didn't end up in an asylum.