Wrote this piece on Watching Bertolucci's 1900 for the MostlyFilm blog.
Amusingly, it consistently remained in the top three Most Read posts on the blog because of the dodgy search terms.
Anyway, this was one of the all-time great cinema experiences.
The following write-up originally appeared as a blog post on ViewLondon.
Last weekend I watched thirteen straight hours (from 7.25pm on Saturday through to 8.25am on Sunday) of Christian Marclay's The Clock at the Purcell Room in the Hayward Gallery. I then slept, on and off, between 8.22 and 11.45 (I saw 10am, for example) because I wanted to see mid-day and I eventually left at 12.15pm on Sunday. I also live-tweeted the experience from 9.39pm until 8.26pm (when my…
This is watchable enough but it too often felt lazy and derivative (the director is clearly a big Guy Ritchie fan). There are several moments where the scriptwriters only got as far as the idea of the joke and not the joke itself. Slight SPOILER, but the water bottle gag is a good case in point. The joke is done as soon as the introductory caption appears - the rest of it isn’t funny at all. (Same gag would have…
You know when you come out of a movie and you go, “God DAMN, that was really fucking great”? That.
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Reviewed for Hero Collector.
Really enjoyed Boiling Point, a terrific single-take thriller, starring Stephen Graham as the highly pressurised head chef of a busy restaurant. Great ensemble cast, gripping script, excellent deployment of Chekhov’s Nut Allergy.
