The anbaric journal of Dan Slevin, gentleman, of Newtown
Lars Von Trier on Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (via Kottke and Gruber):
I saw the film when it came out. I was in my early twenties. The first time I saw it, I slept.
Nothing wrong with sleeping through a film. I slept through The Matrix at the Embassy once.
By the way, of all the films I haven’t seen Barry Lyndon is the one I want to see first.
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer and broadcaster. 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).
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.”
Tom at Ornery World notices something awry in the world of Avatar:
Not only are the subtitles not in a sensible, unobtrusive font so you can read them and get back to the movie, they are in The Teenage Witch's Choice of fonts, Papyrus!
Lars Von Trier on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (via Kottke and Gruber):
I saw the film when it came out. I was in my early twenties. The first time I saw it, I slept.
Nothing wrong with sleeping through a film. I slept through The Matrix at the Embassy once.
By the way, of all the films I haven't seen Barry Lyndon is the one I want to see first.
The redoubtable Bill Nighy interviewed in The Guardian:
The absence of classical work in my repertoire is due to the fact I can't wear those trousers," he says. "It makes me sound very shallow but I've done some really serious plays in a decent lounge suit."
And not just any blogger. Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright's moving memorial to Edward Woodward was lifted without so much as a by-your-leave by The Times for it's obituary page:
They just lifted it from my blog without asking?…?I'm not talking about quotes. Am talking about the entire article. But with edits they made that make me look ill informed and unfeeling.
And if Rupert Murdoch had his way, Edgar would have had to pay to find out he'd been robbed. [HT to @edgarwright on Twitter]
Andy Bull (good British name) talking about English cricket's nomads and imports in The Spin:
There is no need to mark a dividing line between those who arrived as children and those who made the decision later in life, just as there is no need to draw distinctions between players who have moved from Test-playing nations and those who haven't. The point is that they decided to come at all. That is sufficient commitment in itself.
That sentiment is true for all walks of life, not just sport.
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My mum will be pleased to hear this. She is a chronic film sleeper, and sometimes needs to see a film two or three times to get the full story.
I feel asleep during an 11pm session of Eyes Wide Shut (ha!). I woke up during the scene with the weird chanting and promptly got freaked right out.
I was drunk when I went to see Eraserhead for the first time. Fell asleep after 10 minutes. Woke up to the sequence where Henry is throwing white worms at the wall. Was extremely perturbed.
It’s kind of embarrassing to admit that, as a serious film reviewer, one has not seen Barry Lyndon but that one has seen Hotel for Dogs.
I have owned it for a while but only watched it over xmas. It is extraordinary and Kubrick is …
WMT would have been delighted.