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April 2014 Movie Playlist

Mud

Vertigo

A Simple Plan

High Noon

Crazy Heart

Shadow of a Doubt

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Saboteur (1942)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Counselor

Tootsie

Fantastic Planet

The Act of Killing

Les Diaboliques

Shotgun Stories

Locke

X-Men

X-Men 2

Sin Nombre

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Roadtripping.

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April 8th - Happy Rex Manning Day. And god bless The Prince Charles Cinema.

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March 2014 Movie Playlist

Thor: Dark World

Shame

For Those In Peril

Mary Poppins

Safety Not Guaranteed

The Killers (1946)

Hunger

Fargo

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Short Term 12

Until I Rise (formerly 'Desert Dancer')

Jane Eyre (2011)

Metro Manila

Prisoners

The Big Steal

The Veronica Mars movie

The Glass Key

The Blue Dahlia

Wages of Fear

Under The Skin

Captain America (The First Avenger)

Whip It

About Time

Mystery Train

Defiance

Captain America: Winter Soldier

Out Of The Past

X Men: First Class

Crossfire (1947)

In Fear

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Photos from aforementioned Poppins adventure, which Sam so kindly wrote up to save me the trouble of doing so.

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NB: Before we begin, the reason I’m even telling you this story is because it’s a foolproof day out in London (adaptable for pretty much any major city, really) for any child from 4-10ish. OK. With that out of the way, here we go.

Celebrating M’s sixth birthday – holy mackerel, where does...

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Today's Mary Poppins themed adventure that I created for my goddaughter, in 15 seconds.

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Godmother level up

Matteo going as Doctor Who (which I introduced him to last summer) for World Book Day (in a costume I helped pull together). My work here is done.

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February 2014 Movie Playlist

Inside Llewyn Davis

August: Osage County

Rush

Dirty Pretty Things

Her

The Lego Movie

Wajdja

Blood Simple

Noseraftu

Dallas Buyers Club

Prince Avalanche

Red Road

How I Live Now

Broken Flowers

Only Lovers Left Alive

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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.

What a total loss. Godspeed, PSH.

In the words of Cameron Crowe, the writer/director:  

"My original take on this scene was a loud, late night pronouncement from Lester Bangs.  A call to arms.  In Phil’s hands it became something different.  A scene about quiet truths shared between two guys, both at the crossroads, both hurting, and both up too late.  It became the soul of the movie.  In between takes, Hoffman spoke to no one.  He listened only to his headset, only to the words of Lester himself.  (His Walkman was filled with rare Lester interviews.) When the scene was over, I realized that Hoffman had pulled off a magic trick.  He’d leapt over the words and the script, and gone hunting for the soul and compassion of the private Lester, the one only a few of us had ever met.  Suddenly the portrait was complete. The crew and I will always be grateful for that front row seat to his genius."

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January 2014 Movie Playlist

Gone With The Wind

The Thing From Another World

Ginger & Rosa

Lore

Martha Marcy May Marlene

American Hustle

Wolf of Wall Street

A Field In England

12 Years A Slave

The Misfits

Walking & Talking

Regarding Henry

Wolverine (2012)

Pitch Perfect

Laurence Anyways

The Great Beauty

Wolf Children

I Killed My Mother

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A moment of twitter nerdiness

Love.

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Favourite Celluloid Moments, part 12

I remember hearing a lot of buzz about Xavier Dolan's "Laurence Anyways" when it was doing the festival circuit, and mentally bookmarked it to check out. I finally got round to watching it this evening, having forgotten almost everything I'd read about it at the time, just knowing the basic premise of the story (per the IMDB synopsis: "A drama that charts ten years in the relationship of a male-to-female transsexual's relationship with her lover") - and was absolutely blown away by it. Like, total and utter love and awe. I'm aware of Dolan's reputation but this was the first of his film's that I'd seen; I very quickly added all his other available films to my rental list.

The trailer is available to watch here, but I purposefully didn't post it as it's quite spoilery, managing to hit all the big emotional beats of the story within three minutes, which seems such a waste. I loved the fact I went in almost blind to the film, not knowing how it was going to end, what the other characters would do or feel in relation to the protagonist and his decision. Thus endeth your trailer warning. This below was one of my favourite scenes, and I'm going to post it here with no context:

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Morning adventures with my godson pic.twitter.com/TKFYtrXU1z

— Hannah Duncan (@hana_solo) January 18, 2014

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December 2013 Movie Playlist

The Kings Of Summer

The Man With The Iron Fists

Robot & Frank

Trains, Planes & Automobiles

Cloud Atlas

The Hunger Games

Elf

Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban

The Muppet Christmas Carol

New York Stories

Thor

Frankenstein (1932)

Post Tenebras Lux

Win Win

Fill The Void

Home Alone     

Tangled

Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom

Monsters University

Now You See Me

Anchorman 2

Star Trek Into Darkness

Nebraska

Zodiac

The Awakening

Captain America