Blue Light, Red Light: Paris, Texas and the Redemption of a Man
* Note: This post is so full of spoilers it’s almost ridiculous – so only read the first paragraph if you haven’t seen the film yet. It’s also more of a personal review than I might otherwise write, mostly because ‘Paris, Texas’ has been resonating deeply with me since I first saw it about 15 [...]
Transcendence and Compassion in Cinema
Mick Innes as ‘John’ in ‘The Insatiable Moon’, Ponsonby, New Zealand, December 2009 *For the next couple of weeks I’m in New Zealand and will be blogging about the production of ‘The Insatiable Moon’, a movie based on Mike Riddell’s novel. I’m in Ponsonby’s red light district – the portable gazebos we’re using for shade [...]
The Tuesday Top Five: Anthropomorphic Animals in the Cinema Zoo
Chaos Indeed One of the questionable delights of Lars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’, which we still haven’t seen at The Film Talk due to those oh-so-frustrating regional distribution patterns, is the appearance of a demonic fox who enlightens the audience with the motto: ‘Chaos Reigns’. And so it does, in Trier’s universe, this time round (you [...]
The Exodus of Henry Gibson
You know Henry Gibson. He’s one of those character actors who beefed up everything he was in, and indelibly so. Fully worthy of Jett’s appellation ‘an OTG actor’ (no matter how bad the movie, when he’s on screen, your reflex is to say ‘Oh Thank God’). You can’t imagine ‘Magnolia’ without his Luciferian bar-loiterer [...]
