Cinematic Sojourns

A record of the films I've watched on TV, DVD and at the cinema - plus occasional observations on other cultural paraphernalia.

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

Went The Day Well? (1942) - Alberto Cavalcanti

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Went The Day Well? rises wonderfully from it's mid-War propaganda roots to quickly become an engaging, entertaining wartime thriller wa...
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Saturday, 12 January 2008

Rope (1948) - Alfred Hitchcock

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Is this the rope by which Hitchcock hangs himself? For me, yes, well - at least in part. The obsession with style and technique here really ...
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Monday, 26 November 2007

Black Moon (1975) - Louis Malle

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The tagline for Malle's first English language feature, "An apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland" , is as misleading as it is an ac...
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Thursday, 1 November 2007

Frantic (1988) - Roman Polanski

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Roman Polanski 's Hitchcock homage, Frantic , was a far better experience than i'd bargained on. Harrison Ford plays the American bu...
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Sunday, 28 October 2007

A hot sojourn of a very different nature - photos from Egypt

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Went for a week all-inclusive in Egypt - Hurghada to be precise - earlier this year with Faye. Spent the majority of the week going brown, t...
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Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Finding Neverland (2004) - Marc Forster

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The key word here is competent. There is nothing specifically bad about Marc Forster 's film, it's just there's nothing particul...
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Monday, 3 September 2007

Azumi (2003) - Ryuhei Kitamura

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Not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, Azumi is a simple story told fairly well with plenty of fighting and blood-spilling thr...
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