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Don't get mad, get Maddin

Before I went to see Guy Maddin's latest film, My Winnipeg, I read about it on the BFI website. I read it twice. The review didn't make any sense to me. When I arrived, I read the BFI handout given away at all their screenings. I was confused, and still didn't know what to expect. I had onlybooked the tickets because the poster looked good. Then Guy Maddin appeared and introduced the film. A friendly, avuncular character, he riffed his way easily through the introductory speech, cracking jokes about his aunt and the chance to win tickets to Winnipeg....

Posted on July 3, 2008 11:00 PM | Tagged with: ,,

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Natacha Atlas at the Pigalle Club

Natacha Atlas enters the stage in the cosy surroundings of the Pigalle Club very discretely. Some seated diners are still finishing off their lemon tart with ice cream on top. Only after the first number does the crowd's almost delirious affection for her become apparent. Extended applause, whoops and a few continental 'La, la, Natacha!'s....

Posted on June 26, 2008 9:59 AM | Tagged with: ,,

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Buildings and monuments

I have started a map of Edwin Lutyens' work in England, and I'll be updating it as time goes on....

Posted on June 20, 2008 1:29 PM | Tagged with:

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Dangalnama

Dangalnama is a play about the string of riots and bombings that have plagued India since 1984, when large numbers Sikhs were killed in retaliation for the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. It opens with a montage......

Posted on June 17, 2008 9:32 AM | Tagged with:

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The Piano Sings

It must be cheating, in some way. What Michael Nyman does, I mean. His music is so direct, it takes a shortcut to the emotional core of your being. It's not fair on all the other composers. He bypasses all......

Posted on June 10, 2008 9:43 AM | Tagged with:

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The Future of the Internet (part 1)

Just got back from an entertaining and informative talk with Jonathan Zittrain as part of the Guardian's series of internal lectures "The Future of Journalism". To encapsulate the two-hour presentation, Zittrain fears that as a result of the security and......

Posted on June 6, 2008 9:59 AM | Tagged with: ,

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C'mon girls!

I braved the chattering hoards to see Sex & The City. As we walked in Kate wondered aloud if people might think she was my beard - the audience was 95% chicks, whiling away the time until the chick-flick started by gossiping loudly through the trailers and adverts. Whole rows were filled instantly when parties of 20 turned up. Their anticipation was palpable....

Posted on June 6, 2008 7:49 AM | Tagged with:

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Isn't Anything?

I thought I was going to see some shoegazer bands at The Boileroom. Shoegazing's back, isn't it? "It's been and gone. You missed it." my friend Ivan says. I go along anyway....

Posted on June 4, 2008 12:03 AM | Tagged with:

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I'm back!

So look forward to more activity on this website very soon......

Posted on June 3, 2008 1:19 PM |

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"I love you, but I'm going to mace you in the face!"

This one has got a heart. Hard to pinpoint, perhaps, but it's in there - the three brothers played by Wes Anderson regulars Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman and new guy Adrian Brody are looking for it too. Coming from a typically Andersonian broken home, they are on a quest to rescue their mother from a convent in the Himalayas....

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