A Bad Day for the Movies/A Good Day for the Film Talk

posted by Gareth Higgins

Well well well ladies and gentlemen, here we are in the glorious Carolinas on a gorgeous sunny day…and the mystery of life deepens in gratitude as a result of the recent presence of my genial co-host Mr Jett Loe, just departed for his homestead in the Big Sleepy.  We spent yesterday together in the confines of a ten-screen multiplex, and discovered that of those ten screens, there were at least three films worth talking about.  Woody Allen’s latest ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’, the Coen Brothers’ riotous satire ‘Burn After Reading’, and the alleged saviour of comedy Seth Rogen’s hash hash ‘Pineapple Express’.  We’ve already recorded this week’s episode – in which the aforementioned Messrs Allen and Coen come under the TFT microscope; and we’ll get to what the elevated voices of Cahiers du Cinema might term ‘L’expres d’Ananas’ later.  Suffice to say, I slept through much of one of them, laughed out loud at another, and felt let down by a third.

So I shall endeavour to explore the glories of more Russian mysticism in ‘Andrei Rublev’ instead.

PS: Thank you to all dear listeners who have welcomed me to the US and A – glad to be here, soaking up the Southern culture.  If you’re in the area, drop by and say hi.  On email first.

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