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When Old Lil Woz Young (November 2016) JUST DO RIGHT, Atramental Theatre

JUST DO RIGHT 12 Writers. 12 Monologues. 12 Actors. 1 Discussion. A concept by Flora Longley Cook Produced by Rory Devlin Inspired by the works of Maya Angelou http://www.atramentaltheatre.co.uk/just-do-right I was lucky enough to be selected as one of the 12 writer’s to have their work shown as part of Atramental Theatre’s ‘JUST DO RIGHT’ event […]When Old Lil Woz Young (November 2016) JUST DO…

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A Dangerous Game AKA Snake Eyes (Abel Ferrara, 1993)

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Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

I’d rewatched the middle part of this on TV late last Saturday night. It’s funny because it doesn’t seem to matter what point you begin the film since it really doesn’t have an ending or matter anyway.

I don’t think any of QT’s subsequent films were as fun as his first two, with the exception of True Romance which he didn’t direct. Reservoir Dogs was in some ways better where Pulp Fictionh…

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#"brucewillis"#"christopherwalken"#"footfetish"#"harveykeitel"#"harveyweinstein"#"johntravolta"#"postmodern"#"pulpfiction1994"#"samuell.jackson"#"umathurman"#"vingrhames"#Hollywood #Quentin Tarantino

Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot (Gus Van Sant, 2018)

Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot (Gus Van Sant, 2018)

Another offbeat biopic comedy by Gus Van Sant (Milk, My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting) and the second time he’s worked with Joaquin Phoenix since 1995’s To Die For. Van Sant has a fondness for oddballs and lowlifes, and this film more than compensates for the tedious environmental drama Promised Land(2012). Phoenix plays John Callahan in a true story about a fairly unlikable and…

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#Cartoon John Callahan #Disability #Good Will Hunting #Gus Van Sant #Inherent Vice 2014 #Jack Black #Joaquin Phoenix #low budget independent film #Mara Rooney #My Own Private Idaho #Promised Land 2012 #The Master 2012 #To Die For 1995 #You Were Never Really Here (2017)

First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2018)

A typically bleak and ambiguous film from Schrader. The conflict between religious faith and morality has been themes of Schrader’s work ever since his first script Taxi Driverin 1976, and which was directed by the upandcoming Martin Scorsese. This film, of course, as a classic of 70s new wave cinema, made him a legend as screenwriter at a fairly early point in his career. The films which…

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#Affliction 1997 #Amanda Seyfried #American Gigolo 1980 #catholicism #Ethan Hawke #existentialism #extremism #First Reformed 2018 #God&039;s lonely man #martin scorsese #New Wave Hollywood 1970s #Paul Schrader #religion #suicide #Taxi Driver (1976)#violence in cinema #Yakuza 1974 Sydney Pollock

Mojave (William Monahan, 2015)

‘Turn left. Turn right. Fucked both ways’

William Monahan is probably one of my favourite screenwriters. I don’t know if his scripts really work as films but they’re funny and he writes the best lines. He won an Academy award for best script for The Depaah-td (*faux Boston accent), which contains some vulgaric jems like ‘In America we bring cash to a deal – no ticky no laundry!’ and ‘No use cryin…

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#Beckett&039;s Waiting for Godot #Boogie Nights #Fellini&039;s 8 1/2 #Garret Hedlund #Hard Eight #Jackie Brown #Lindsey Anderson&039;s Oh Lucky Man!#Mark Wahlberg #Mojave (William Monahan #Oscar Issac #Pulp Fiction #Reservoir Dogs #The Player

On the Road (Walter Salles, 2012).

Somewhat forgotten adaptation of Beat generation author’s Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about the zeitgeist of post-war America in the 50s. On its realise On The Road received mixed reviews for a several legitimate reasons. Kerouac’s novel is widely considered both a masterpiece of Beat literature and shows a ‘stream of consciouness’ first-person narrator that defies any translatable cinematic…

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#Amy Adams #Beat generation #Before Night Falls (2000)#Elizabeth Moss #Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)#Garrett Hedlund #Jack Kerouac #Kirten Dunst #Kristen Stewart #Motorcycle Diaries (2004).#post-war America 1950s #Sam Riley #Viggo Mortensen #William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg #Yu Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

The Castle (Michael Haneke, 1998)

Haneke vs Kafka. I like both so you’d think this film would be dynamite, unfortunately the challenge of adapting Kafka’s works about moral and social alienation, and his existential angst about identity in the face of Draconian bureaucracy, has never been simple or surprising. Much better approaches to his style and themes (coined with the phrase ‘Kafkaesque’, which is synonymous with ‘weird’ and…

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#an uunfinished Kafka novel from 1926 #Auteur #bourgeoisie middle-classes #bureaucracy #existentialism #Funny Games (97)#Hidden (2005)#Orsen Welles&039; The Trial (1962)#Steven Soderberg&039;s biopic Kafka (1991).#The Castle #The Castle (Michael Haneke #The Piano Teacher (2001)#The White Ribbon

Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015)

This one slipped under my radar but watching it felt like a genuine magically, voyeuristic experience similar to watching films like America Graffiti (73), bande à apart (64), Dazed&Confused (93) and Yu tu mama tambien(2001). A dirty, allnight drunken blast of adolescence sangfroid and chaos. I’m guessing the novelty of a real-time single shot films has somewhat been overshadowed by the…

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#Alejandro G. Iñárritu&039;s (The Ravenant #arthouse cinema #Before Sunrise (1995).#Berlin #Eisenstein #Gaspar Noé&039;s (Irreversable #Germany #Laia Costa #Real time independent cinema #Silent House (2010)#Soviet mondernists #Victoria (Sebastian Schipper

Sicario: Soldado (Stefano Sollima, 2018)

Sicario: Soldado (2018)

Sequels are normally bad ideas where the impetus is generally about milking the success of the first film. There’s an inherent problem with this because the impulse is to try something new and different, which goes against the interests of the studios who want something that looks like the original but bigger and better.

I’d felt the first film was so good in terms of…

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#Benicio Del Toro #Denis Villeneuve #Josh Brolin #Mexico drug cartel #Sicario: Soldado (Stefano Sollima #Stephen Gaghan&039;s Syriana (2005)#Steven Soderberg #Taylor Sheridan #Traffic (2000)#US foriegn policy terrorism

All The Money In The World (2017)

Based on a true story about a wealthy oil man who’s greed and ambition becomes tested after a family member is held for ransom. I think this is Scott’s best film since Blade Runner (1982). I’m not quite sure why it’s taken so long, and certainly Scott’s made some decent films in the last 36 years, but this is the first time I’ve seen one that didn’t rely purely on grande spectable (Gladiator) or…

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#All the money in the world (2017)#Christopher Plummer #Kevin Spacer scandal Hollywood #Mark Wahlberg #Michelle Williams #Ridley Scott Blade Runner 1982 #Romain Duris

Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2015)

There aren’t many Hollywood films about the wars in West African countries. Generally these are told in an oblique outsider fashion, with visiting soldiers or foreign white saviours observing the conflict as it unfolds as in Blood Diamond (2006), Tears of the Sun (2003), Beyond Borders (2003) and Black Hawk Down (2001). Hotel Rwanda (2004) perhaps being a rare exception to this where Hollywood…

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#Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga #Beyond Borders (2003)#Blood Diamond (2006)#Idris Elba #Lord of the Flies #Platoon (1986)#Sierre Leone #Tears of the Sun (2003)#Uzodinma Iweala

Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013) & A Night of the Sunflowers (Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, 2006).

I’d found these two films randomly in an ex-rentals bin at my local library. After watching both I surprised how similar the two films were despite being completely different countries, China and Spain. Both shared similarities, narratively and thematically, and showed a combination of social realism and dream-like visual landscapes. Rather conspicuously, these could be labelled ‘art-house’…

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#(Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo #A Night of the Sunflowers #Alejandro González Iñárritu #Béla Tarr #Chinese cinema #globalisaton and consumerism #Jacques Audiard #Spanish cinema #Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke #world cinema

You were never really here (Lynn Ramsey, 2018).

I’ve always liked Lynn Ramsey. She’s more of an auteur ‘arthouse’ director like David Lynch, Harmony Korine or Nicolas Winding Refn than someone who’s interested in genre or narrative storytelling like Tarantino, Fincher or Nolan. Her films are visual experiences, like dreams, than actual stories with a beginning, middle and end. Often there is no end and sometimes it’s hard to tell whether the…

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#auteur &039;arthouse&039; cinema #Drive (2011)#Joaquin Phoenix #Jonathan Ames #Morvern callar (2002)#Nicolas Winding Refn #PTSD #Taxi Driver (1976)#The Alcoholic (2008)#We need to talk about Kevin (2011)#You were never really here (Lynn Ramsey

Girl with all the gifts (Colm McCarthy, 2016)

I hadn’t actually heard of this film until recently and I think the two reasons for this were as follows: 1. As a subgenre, apocalyptic Zombie films have literally been done to death, to the point where if you say ‘fancy a zombie film?’ 2/3 of people will wince and say ‘not another one’. At which point you have to convince the other party ‘no, but there’s a twist, it’s not like the others’; this…

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#British horror film #Day of the triffids #George Romero #Girl with all the gifts (Colm McCarthy #Glenn Close #horror cinema #independent cinema #Mike Carey #Night of the living dead #Paddy Considine #Sennia Nanua #The Walking Dead #Zombie

Bugsy (Barry Levinson, 1991)

After rewatching Broadwalk Empire I’d decided to rewatch Bugsy, produced and starring Warren Beatty and directed by Barry Levinson, which is about Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, another celebrity gangster from the same era. One its release it had mixed reviews and watching it 10 years ago I remember feeling bored, but I wanted to see how it compared in the canon of Hollywood biopics about the mob. For…

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#Annette Benning #Barry Levinson #Ben Kingsley #Benjamin &039;Bugsy&039; Siegel #Broadwalk Empire #Dick Tracy (1990)#Diner (1982)#Good Morning Vietnam (1987)#Harvey Kietel #James Toback #Rain Man (1988)#Scarface (1983)#Scorsese&039;s Goodfellas (1990)#Warren Beatty

We Were Soldiers (Randall Wallace, 2002) When I'd first seen this film I was unsettled for its unabashed patriotism and machismo, especially with what I'd percieved as bias retelling of the Vietnam war during at the same time as the Bush administration and post-September 11 invasion of Afganistan and Iraq.

#Battle of Ia Drang #Black Hawk Down (2000)#Bush administration #Hacksaw Ridge (2016)#Hollywood #Hurt Locker (2008)#Lieutenant General Hal Moore #Platoon (1986)#post-September 11 #Vietnam war #We Were Soldiers (Randall Wallace

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