Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein

October 5th, 2007 · 2 comments or link to (permalink)

This is an odd but fascinating movie. Derek Jarman was often self indulgent as a film maker, but he innovated, and some of what he did was great. He directed the seminal punk movie, Jubilee, many of the Smiths’ pop promos and a beautifully filmed portrait of the painter Caravaggio. The self indulgent stuff included the simultaneously hyper camp and mind numbingly dull Sebastiane, which was entirely in Latin.

Wittgenstein is an interesting subject, being one of the few philosophers that wasn’t entirely self indulgent.

BBC 1 hr 11 min 53 sec Sep 21, 2007
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Dracula

July 26th, 2007 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)

Dracula
1 hr 14 min 21 sec – Oct 30, 2006

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Today’s second Dracula movie is the 1931 camp and cozy romp that smacks of Mel Brooks’ ‘Young Frankenstein’.

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Nosferatu

July 26th, 2007 · comment or link to (permalink)

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1 hr 24 min 19 sec – Jan 10, 2006

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Two versions of Dracula today! This one is the classic German expressionist silent film from 1922: ‘Nosferatu’.

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Home – adaptation of J G Ballard’s ‘The Enormous Space’

May 9th, 2007 · comment or link to (permalink)

Ballard at his best, finding the weird in the seemingly banal. Here, a story about a suburbanite who intends to shut himself off from the rest of the world by never leaving the house again.

Running time: 59 mins

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Night of the Living Dead

March 22nd, 2007 · comment or link to (permalink)

Classic vintage horror movie.

Running time: 1 hour 35 mins.

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