Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Agree with you about Once Upon A Time in the West, Craig. Saw another older release late today at the local Event Cinema (the finale of their VSunday Event series)--Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) . A film I have read much about and it was bloody interesting--even though it was a little odd watching it in a near-empty cinema (one other bloke). Never thought I would hear a discussion of scopophilia in a movie!
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Another pleasant surprise--went to Easy A today, which turned out to be a really funny and grown-up American teen movie. After The Waterfall (Simone Horrocks, NZ, 2010) also has appeal, especially in the lead role by Anthony Starr.)
Agree about Four Lions, but then Chris Morris has long been one of my cultural heroes.
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Now that we are pretty settled on The Word of the Year, could we muse on the Film of the Year (before the newspapers fill up columns with their usual end-of-year bumpf).
In a year dominated by third-rate Hollywood dross, it is great to encounter two excellent American films at the tail-end of 2010: The Social Network (which Sight & Sound critics have picked as the top film for 2010), and the very chilly but enthralling Winter's Bone.
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Oops---a (schaden) Freudian slip there!
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[No offence intended Waikato. It’s not you, it’s me…]
On consideration, I think it’s probably Waikato…
Geez, away for a week in Sydney and have to leap immediately into defensive mode!!
With Australia experiencing flooding in NSW, locust swarms in Victoria, alleged betrayals over World Cup venues and pavlova ownership, and doing so badly at the cricket, it is tempting to share a moment or two of schadenfraude.
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I guess we have had sufficient going forward with going forward?
My daughter nominates squally showers
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Friday brought another reminder of how arbitrary luck is. Went down to the local Postshop, to mail a parcel, and was persuaded to have a go at their Guess the number of jellybeans in a jar competion. Picked a random number without even looking at the jar, and won the damn thing. We now have 3kg of beans. I think I might donate them to the Sallies!
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We seem to have a case of the repeats
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As Mark Twain wrote, way back in 1873, That awful power, the public opinion of this nation, is formed and molded by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoe-making and fetched up in journalism on the way to the poorhouse
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It helps too if you have children who can supply shining examples for other children, or offer endless instances of cuteness. A good starting point for attacking teachers, too.