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Category: Film

  • Hotel Chevalier

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    ‘Wanna See My View Of Paris?’…so ends Wes Anderson’s prologue to The Darjeeling Limited, a 13-minute short set in Paris’ (fictional?) Hotel Chevalier. Simple, sweet and poignant…the final shot lingers over the heartbreaking final moments of a relationship; a coda that’s as cold as it is intimate. Nicely crafted Wes 🙂 — { US viewers…

  • Sigur Rós: Heima

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    ‘I sometimes get this strange and sort of uncontrollable urge to want to go home…’ Sigur Rós’ forthcoming album Hvarf-Heim is gonna be accompanied by what appears to be a magical DVD movie entitled Heima…Icelandic for ‘at home’. I first heard Sigur in Vanilla Sky…and ever since imagined their work to be ‘widescreen music’…Heima‘s breathtaking…

  • The Darjeeling Limited

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    Wes Anderson, one of my favourite directors, has his latest film premiering in a few weeks; The Darjeeling Limited is the story of three estranged brothers that journey across India together in an attempt to put aside their differences, following the death of their father. You can find HD trailers at the Quicktime site, as…

  • Bat-trailer

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    Yay! There’s a new Batman Dark Knight teaser trailer at Why So Serious? You get to see – um – nothing? UPDATE: Sounds like 2008’ll also see an anime-style, straight-to-DVD Batman movie set between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight…in the vein of Clone Wars, Dark Fury and Animatrix 🙂

  • Pretty In Sixteen Pink Breakfast Candles

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    Mark Ronson on The Kaiser Chiefs’ You Can Have It All… ‘It could have been the slow dance song in a John Hughes movie – like Molly Ringwald all bummed and stuff, before the cute guy she’s been secretly in love with comes over and takes her hand.’ I see it too and I want…

  • Don’t Blow It…

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    …the fedora’s back – it’s been eighteen years. I can’t wait 🙂

  • The Batpod…

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    …not some Oakley-esque remix of an iPod, but the Dark Knight‘s new ride. I want one 🙂 More here…

  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Tales Of The New Republic

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    I should like it, but I don’t want to 🙁 Lucasfilm previewed the new Clone Wars TV series at this weekend’s 30th anniversary of Star Wars. It looks great, but why remake Genndy Tartovsky‘s sublimely dark and kinetic better-than-the-movies interpretation? We’ll find out in Summer 2008 🙂 In the meantime, here’s a newly minted fan-made…

  • Sicko

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    From a review of Michael Moore’s Sicko, at Salon.com… When Moore interviews Tony Benn, a leading figure on the British left, his larger concerns come into focus. Benn argues that for-profit healthcare and the other instruments of the corporate state, like student loans and bottomless credit-card debt, perform a crucial function for that state. They…

  • Zibahkhana: 28 Samosa Later….

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    Awesome! Pakistan’s first extreme horror movie has just been BoingBoing-ed and my mind is reeling with punchlines and wisecracks. But, I’m kinda disappointed that the victims are expendable teens and not my home country’s crazy imams, power-hungry generals, CIA agents and the corrupted gentry…now wouldn’t that be subversive…allies in a War On Horror! Anyways, here’re…