Another Day of Sun (La La Land) – Justin Hurwitz - I concur with Pamela Lowe Saldana at All Things Thriller who wrote in my post – A Lovely Night (La La Land), ‘I think the opening sequence, with all the dancers, entertainers, etc., making the best of the horrid traffic…
The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina 2009) – Juan José Campanella - Their is no other movie I recommend more often to people than The Secret in Their Eyes (2009). Not to be confused with the abysmal Hollywood rehash starring Julie Roberts, this Argentinian Oscar award Best Foreign Language Film is my…
1/10 – 7/10 incl. Spanish-Language movies, Paul Rudd and Upstream - Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Doing Poem by the Intellectual Shaman: We get ambitious until we can’t give things up even though we realize they aren’t for us. We…
Waterland (1992) – Stephen Gyllenhaal (Friday’s Finest) - Waterland (1992) starring Jeremy Irons is based on Graham Swift’s 1982 book of the same name (shortlisted for the booker award). I’m perplexed why Waterland is so underappreciated (6.6 IMDB, 53% RT) and why it failed at the box office…
Alby Mangels – Beyond World Safari (Lynn Santer) - Today we take a walk off the beaten track in Wednesday’s book quotes to look at an authorised biography of the pioneer Australian adventurer Alby Mangels. The author Lynn Santer who I was in contact with in the early 2000s…
Full Index of Movies and TV
- Another Day of Sun (La La Land) – Justin Hurwitz
- The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina 2009) – Juan José Campanella
- 1/10 – 7/10 incl. Spanish-Language movies, Paul Rudd and Upstream
- Waterland (1992) – Stephen Gyllenhaal (Friday’s Finest)
- Alby Mangels – Beyond World Safari (Lynn Santer)
- 24/9 – 30/9 incl. Astronomy, IT (Chapter 2) and Mercury 7 Pre-Launch Facilities
- Running on Empty – Sidney Lumet (Friday’s Finest)
- Tokyo Story (1953) – Yasujirô Ozu (Friday’s Finest)
- Once (2007) – John Carney (Friday’s Finest)
- The Mosquito Coast – Peter Weir (1986)
- Monos (2019) – Alejandro Landes (Colombian entry for the best international feature film – Oscars)
- Dogville (2003) – Lars Von Trier (Friday’s Finest)
- 20/8 – 26/8 Manson/Epstein, Tarantino, Springsteen & Humanity’s Future
- Paris, Texas (1984) – Wim Wenders (Friday’s Finest)
- A Separation (2011) – Asghar Farhadi (Friday’s finest)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975- Peter Weir (Friday’s Finest)
- A Lovely Night – Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)
- Put to Seinfeld… ‘Actor, Writer, Producer – Which of Larry David’s Skills do you admire the most?’
- The highly anticpated ‘The Irishman’ – Martin Scorsese
- Rocketman- Elton Hercules John!
- The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde (adapted and directed by Orson Welles)
- Music homage films abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan)
- The Master (2012) – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Lost Horizon (1937) – Frank Capra
- Sleeper (1973) – Woody Allen
- Reflections on the ‘Who Killed JFK’ article
- A little known Australian movie called ‘Candy’ and Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’
- Mandy – An art-house supernatural horror trip
- Crikey! ‘That’s a tough mother bleepin’ wooden door’
- Could watching the Phantom Thread become a *new* New Year’s tradition?
- Roma – A Latino Cinematic Masterpiece (2018)
- Moneyball and Wallstreet
- Keep On Sleeping With Ham Sarris #1 – Against Empathy (With Plaul Boom)
- I think Neil deGrasse Tyson just invented Intellectual Porn
- The greatest cover up in history – The unheralded Robert Zimmerman
- Did the RIO Olympics Deliver?
- Hail, Caesar! – A playful but unrealised Coen Brothers romp
- Bridge of Spies (2015) – Steven Spielberg
- Heaven Knows What (2014)
- The Wonder Years and ‘Catch The Wind’
- 20 Seconds of Insane Courage
- Another Earth (2011) What is it about?
- Love is Strange – A Movie You Shouldn’t Miss
- The greatest Larry David interview anyone could hope for
- Transformational Leadership at its most potent – Gandhi
- “It’s like a big ship… and the water’s on fire.” Tom Waits on David Letterman
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) – Woody Allen
- Blue is the Warmest Colour
- ‘Being There’ – A fairly solid depressing tale but not an overly satisfying one.
- Manhattan – A stupendous movie about dating and relationships
