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Monthly Archives: February 2012

29/02/12 David Lynch’s The Straight Story

by Laurent de Alberti When Septuagenarian Alvin Straight finds out that his estranged brother has suffered a stroke, he decides to embark on a journey to reunite with him, in spite of his own poor health. Unable to drive, he resorts to riding a lawn mower through the Midwest to cover the 300 miles that [...]

28/02/12 Slade in Flame

by Sarah Slade Before the Beatles and Dick Lester, pop movies of the 1950s and 60s featured one of a stable of jobbing popstars, a “let’s do the show right here, fellas!” plot that would involve the clean-cut young folks keeping their youth club/coffee bar out of the hands of a besuited property developer using  [...]

27/02/12 Mostly Frocks – the ceremony

We’re back again with the Mostly Film liveblog and the 84th Oscars ceremony is just about to begin. You can read our coverage of the red carpet here. 1.35am Concetta: Boom! First Kodak joke of the evening. Fact: 7 of the 9 best pic nominees were made on Kodak film. 1.40am Concetta: He’s singing!

26/02/12 Mostly Frocks – the red carpet

Good evening! Welcome to the MostlyFilm liveblog of the 84th Academy Awards: the red carpet. Mostly Film’s Oscar Livebloggers: Tindara Sidoti-McNary is an art and film geek and fatshionista. Special interests include artist filmmakers and lipstick. She tweets as @Tindara Concetta Sidoti is a journalist who tweets as @concettasidoti Laura Morgan blogs at Glad All [...]

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26/02/12 Mostly Frocks – the Mostly Film Academy Awards 2012 liveblog

Tonight Mostly Film goes live-action, and our all-women team will be commenting on the red carpet action and the Oscars ceremony. The red carpet coverage will start from 11.30pm GMT and the Oscars ceremony from 1.30am GMT. The MostlyFilm Oscars livebloggers are Laura Morgan, Concetta Sidoti and Tindara Sidoti-McNary. Editing, updating, and making virtual cups [...]

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24/02/12 Mostly Oscar Predictions

With the Oscars appearing on maybe half a dozen Sky HD TVs this weekend, two of our writers look at the prospects for this weekend’s 84th Academy Awards.  Warning: contains a spoiler for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: The weeks between the Oscar nominations and the awards have always been the highlight of my cinema year.  [...]

23/02/12 The Front Line

by Caulorlime The Korean War is an historical obscenity so absurd that it feels like it was created for propaganda purposes. We are, in the west, well used to the hideous idea of people dying in the First World War right up to 11 o-clock on the eleventh of November, and the utter pointlessness of those [...]

22/02/12 Wild at Heart

by Jim Eaton-Terry Wild at Heart seems to be the one universally accepted dud in David Lynch’s back catalogue.  There are the early oddities (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune), his masterpiece Blue Velvet, then the nightmarish trilogy of Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive.  Wild At Heart is dismissed as Lynch lite, [...]

21/02/12 Mostly Pop – February 2012

by Mr Moth I last wrote Mostly Pop back in September 2011. It’s 2012 now – how things have changed! We have jetpacks and robot servants, I’m writing this while tucking into a bowl of food in pill form (mmm… roast chicken and yorkshire pudding pills!), the NHS is finally going to be destroyed (at [...]

20/02/12 Hadewijch

by Yasmeen Khan Before 2009’s Hadewijch, Bruno Dumont made three exceptional feature films – La Vie de Jésus (1997), L’Humanité (1999) and Flandres (2006) -and one terrible turkey – Twentynine Palms (2003), not to be confused with 29 Palms (2002), which is also the only one to be set outside France. So it’s encouraging to see him [...]

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