Ok. It’s lazy “Blogalism” but I’m going to go ahead and post up this link anyway for no other reason than it made me smile.
Premium Hollywood’s Will Harris offers up sixteen of his favourite John Hughes quotes.
There’s writing and then there’s writing. Genius.
News of the death of an actor or director can trigger that effect where images, scenes, memories and feelings, previously stored in some unconsciously categorised recess of the mind, rush forward to flood your thoughts in an instant. It happened last year on hearing the sad news of the death of Paul Newman, and again this morning on hearing John Hughes had passed.
The film that first raced to the front of my mind was, of course, FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF. The film of a generation perhaps, but I say the film of any generation. On the surface for some a popcorn flick with a glut of quotable one-liners to see you through summer, but for me it was much more and on so many different subtle levels. Evidenced by the fact that an indirect reference to it now brings so many emotions flooding back.
This is a nice piece over at The Auteurs Daily, particularly where Alison Willmore talks about the “FightClub theory”, something I’d never heard associated with Ferris.
He may have been paraphrasing but I liked Ferris’ philosophical take on things and still refer to it today….
“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
CS
John Woo’s bad-asses carry TWO guns. Musashi is so bad-ass he carries TWO samurai swords……and he was the real deal so legend would have it. But can Mamoru Oshii bring this 16th century swashbuckler screaming into Sitges? See what we think here
I wouldn’t say that I am the biggest fan of Nick Love’s output so far. I thought The Business was good, Football Factory was ok and Outlaw was initially a great idea, but a weak story and below-par performances made this into a Grade A stinker.
This remake of the late ’80s TV film The Firm attracted me for the same reason as The Business – it looks jam packed with quality trainers and tracksuits. The original was a gritty drama that was mainly carried by the legendary Gary Oldman’s performance, I’m not sure that this one’s going to be able to say the same. If his past films are anything to go by it’s going to be lots of sex,drugs, fighting and cockney wide-boys but very little substance.
I’ll be there in the queue just to get another glimpse of people with wedge haircuts wearing Tacchini tracksuit tops and Diadora Borg Elite trainers, but I suspect the rest of it will be dissappointing.
So you scooped Best Director award at Cannes did you? Pah! This is Sitges we’re talking about here pal. Your Cannes credit cuts no mustard with us. What else have you got to show for yourself?
CS
As you’ve probably realised by now, we are obsessed with all things Oldboy. I found this on my daily work-avoidance web trawl and thought I’d put it up in case we’re being followed by any other hammer-fight obsessed geeks.
Please click on the link HERE , thanks to our friends over at Ain’t It Cool
Enjoy.
The cast appears to consist of teenagers held together with band-aids and a small army of smartly dressed skinheads. Will this be enough to drag Shaun away from his sobresada? Read on to find out.
If you’re here for our opinion, “go see this film”, if you’re here for a preview of the film, read on.
It’s not the best picture of us ever, but we’re still incredibly proud of meeting the master himself a few years ago.
Click on the link here to see a video of him discussing his new film ‘Thirst’ which is showing at Sitges this year.
It’s only 61 days and 14 hours until this year’s Festival Internacional De Cinema Fantastic De Catalunya (that’s the Sitges Film Festival to you and me) and already the excitement is reaching fever pitch – flights have been booked, the accomodation is reserved and the beers are on the bar.
With that in mind, we’re aiming to bring you as much information as early as possible. A few details are already available on the site here and we aim to keep you updated with trailers and information as they arrive.
As the date for entries has now passed, we’re hopeful that more information is going to be available soon, although going on past years, we’ll usually find out more some time around the middle of September.
Today’s trailer is the hotly-anticipated [REC] 2 which we expect will probably open the festival. Tickets will probably be at a premium and if the first installment is anything to go by, we’d better take spare underwear.
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