Yesterday, I saw Wim Wenders’ documentary about the Buena Vista Social Club, the record made by a rag tag collection of old Cuban musicians and singers under the gentle supervision of travelling musician and producer, Ry Cooder. The film contains concert and studio footage, interviews with the musicians and atmospheric footage from the streets of [...]
Friday night I went to see Der Untergang in my local art cinema. The film which has been a surprise box office in most of continental Europe, did not attract huge crowds in Manchester this Friday evening, only a week after its British premiere, yet I think that it may be among the victorious parts [...]
I haven’t actually seen this Japanese film about Japanese teenagers, their troubled life in high school and their fascinations with pop culture, but what I’ve heard of it so far makes it sound very interesting. You are, quite likely familiar with the hype that surrounded and propelled the film “the Blair Witch Project” to fame [...]
Yesterday, I had time to finish reading A Scanner Darkly, a novel by the american Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick. I’ve read some of his stories and books many of which have been made into films. A few weeks ago, I read that there was coming yet another film based on one of Dick’s [...]