In a few hours the world is hopefully going to get a little bit saner and a little more tolerant. So, as I’m in a good mood here’s something that might make you chuckle: And if that isn’t enough here’s the Flight of the Conchords being interviewed at The AV Club. I know, linking to […]
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Australia (Evidently, modern Australia was built on racism, bigotry, corruption and alcohol). Not the debacle that some media would have you believe, Straya is an old-fashioned epic that looks right at home on the big Embassy screen. If only Lurhman the director had more confidence in Lurhman the writer, he might have avoided some of …
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Roger Ebert on the personal, private places he loves (and the joys of being alone with them, as well as the occasional pleasures to be found in sharing them): I first visited the Moscow Arms near Pembridge Square in 1970, when the room fee at the hotel now named the Blue Bells was £4 …
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Acclaimed broadcaster and (slightly less acclaimed) pianist Jack Perkins has a book coming out. It’s a collection of his exceptionally well-written cricket reminiscences from the excellent indie-cricket blog Cricket Mystery. I commend it to you (and to the blog which is run by Jack’s boy Bryan). It slides off the presses later this month.
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”