Posts by philipmatthews
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Ask Ali Ikram how he’s feeling about the Star Times story. Stitched up is the answer.
He should be more embarassed by this.
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The film I liked most in cinemas this year was The White Ribbon -- technically a 2009 film but 2010 down here. Also in contention for me: A Prophet, The Social Network, White Material and Greenberg. Comedies of the year: Greenberg and Four Lions. NZ film: Boy.
Now, as it's a scorching hot day here, I have to go help shift my father-in-law's office. Up and down four flights of stairs with no lift. Awesome.
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I'd like to add that I did push for "The Lives of Otters" as the headline ...
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btw, I'm sure no one needs to be told this but get along to Gang of Four, they're fantastic. While it's not the original rhythm section they're still very, very relevant.
Would have been keen but opted for Swans in March instead, as I can't afford both (capital: it fails me now ...). Were you the one on the thread a while ago talking about the Swans and Neubauten shows? If so, any, er, feedback?
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Ah, thankyou, my coat.
You'll find it in the wardrobe in the spare room.
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The Black Angels, off new album Phosphene Dream. Unsurprisingly, these guys sometimes act as backing group for the rehabilitated Roky Erickson.
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Re: Irish Central. It's the old emphatic headline, less emphatic story trick.
I thought Gordon Campbell had a good point in one of his Hobbit posts on the threat of the project being taken offshore:
There seems to have been no attempt to call Warners’ bluff and use the one factor – time – where we actually had Warners over a barrel. Time was always working in our favour when it came to the final decision about where The Hobbit would be shot. Shooting always had to begin in February if Warners/MGM were going to meet their deadline of getting the first film into theatres by December 2012, and the second film by December 2013. Even though the raw numbers stacked up better to do the film elsewhere, Warners simply didn’t have enough time left to uproot the project, and still be ready to start shooting in February ...
Going elsewhere would have meant Warners uprooting its star director, who reportedly hadn’t much enjoyed the experience of shooting part of The Lovely Bones in Pennsylvania. Jackson would have had no desire to live in Ireland for the next two years – not in the least because of the havoc his enforced absence would have wreaked on the ability of Weta to attract other projects in the meantime, with related damage to Weta’s image as a one-stop shop headed by Jackson, and at the forefront of the FX game.
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As much as I loved the graciousness -- and the stamina, and the self-effacing sense of humour (the skipping, the jokes about the keyboard) -- of the revived Cohen, as seen in Wellington last year, I'm not sure I prefer him in the end to the lugubrious Cohen, as in this best-version-ever of The Partisan from French TV, 1969:
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oo, not sure how I hadn't heard this before, but Ari from the Slits died on Wednesday.
stink.
Ah. Wondered why Simon Reynolds was doing this.
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Also: I may be way behind the curve on this, but thoroughly enjoyed Being Human on Prime the other night.