Category: Film
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"Ge kunt verdriet niet delen. Niet echt. We waren er niet voor mekaar. Hoe goed dat wij ons best ook deden." "You can not share grief. Not really. We were not there for each other. How good that we did our best." – from the book "The Broken Circle Breakdown Featuring the Cover-Ups of Alabama" by Johan Heldenbergh…
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What do these things have in common? Pillow: Tom: Paul: It always amazes me when I read the Feedjit Live (the blog traffic cop in the lower right sidebar), how by way of my varied subject matter – it brings people here from all over the globe and from such diverse…
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Guy Ritchie's latest film, RockNRolla was just released on DVD and it's so much fun! His writing is as raucous and entertaining as ever (Snatch and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels). Handsome Bob is Ritchie's best character yet, played by one of my faves, the captivating and endlessly believable Tom Hardy. And Guy's keen…
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So many people have been abuzz about the interiors in the film Mamma Mia so I thought I'd do a post on sourcing the look. Mind you I haven't seen the film. I must say, I really can't stand Abba (sorry Abba fans) and I'm too much of a Pierce Brosnan fan to have the…
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Stick with me here. It's a tangled yarn. This has been a morning where the message is "outsider art". First I went to "visit" Victoria over at sfgirlbybay and she had this excellent post on the film Beautiful Losers, a documentary about underground American artists (still trying to find out how to see it). Then…
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I am so incredibly pleased that the song Falling Slowly from the movie Once won the Oscar for best song. The Oscar show, which is all too often so commercial, found some heart last night. Twice in fact. The song's female singer/pianist Marketa Irglova of the duo The Swell Season was cut off from giving…