What movies do you enjoy watching at New Year? The Phantom Thread is so damn good. It gets better on repeated viewings. I always felt that Paul Thomas Anderson‘s There will be Blood was a homage of sorts to Orson…
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Could watching the Phantom Thread become a *new* New Year’s tradition?
Tagged with: Citizen kane, Ingmar Bergman, love, new year, new years, orson welles, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, There will be blood
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
My 100th post – My Wooden Cutting Board
Just after breakfast, I developed this fascination with my wooden cutting board. This is where I prepare nearly all my food. The shades of stains, the mesh of grooves, the spread of cutting angles how one side was more indented than the other,…
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ingmar Bergman
I saw this wonderful movie, ‘Smiles of a Summer Night‘ last night. This period piece Ingmar Bergman comedy runs rampant with extremely clever and witty dialogue. It’s so cheeky! Probably one of the best romantic comedies I have seen. It…
Tagged with: Breaking Down Bergman Series, Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Winter Light (1963) Ingmar Bergman
Marta Lundberg, an atheist local school teacher sits and laments at the church pew because she is deeply in love with a pastor whose faith in God, himself and Marta is dwindling into an existential nothingness. At the point of…
Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman and the ‘Breaking Down Bergman’ series.
Since one of my enduring hobbies is watching movies, I decided one day to list my 100 favourite movies in order on the IMD. One question I kept being asked in response to my list was how do you not…
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