Oscar predictions, for shits n gigs ( Read more... )

Films for people who don't really like films, from Jan. 9th

"People who don't view cinema as a viable artform are only drawn to films that have been slapped with a cultural seal of approval: critically approved source material, or directors who have made their names in more venerable artforms, such as literature or theatre. They wouldn't dream of ( Read more... )

One of the best, Anne Billson.
Where are the meaty comedy roles for women?

More Of Anne Billson's Guardian columns right here

If anyone knows where and how I can get hold of a copy of her book Spoilers, please let me know.

Awesome mid-February news:

Werner Herzog is making a new film, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (wicked, nice title). David Lynch is producing (extra wicked). It's apparently a horror film (a Herzog horror? Extra extra wicked) loosely based on a true story about a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in an age, but I wanted to just post up my picks for the best flicks of last year. There's top 10 films, runners-up stuff, M/F acting, worst, disappointments and unexpected gems, too. Though there's no waffle about the lists this year, as I have done - or, more to the point, will do - write-ups on my film blog, which is where I do ( Read more... )

Oh shit yes.

Yes please.

Ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki...

...Mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo

This has been remade into this. The name remains the same: Friday the 13th. I only found out about this the other day. It could be a sack of shit. Its director, Marcus Nispel, is a particularly slick filmmaker who puts a sheen of unnecessary glossiness all over his films, which means it could ( Read more... )

So, the BFI (am I, like, on a mission or something?) is celebrating their 75th birthday this year. Maybe that's why they've put the extra effort in to have a standout festival line-up, who knows?

They're running this thing called Visions of the Future, where they asked 75 key media figures two questions and then published their responses.

These ( Read more... )

Nice. The line-up for the London Film Festival '08 has been announced. There are some great looking titles in there. They usually get a fair few nifty titles in their selections, but this is the best line-up I've seen there for quite a few years. I think some of the films have played in fests. in various countries already - the US, France, Berlin, ( Read more... )

Thanks to all who added some thoughts here the other day. Literature as an artform and artform as literature seemed to have been a theme. And with many shades of variety in between. As well as giving me some cracking new suggestions to look into (many, if not most, have been added to my online list of 'must read's), it let me - and others - into a ( Read more... )