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Tag Archives: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…
The Boat That Rocked Rocky waters… Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans star in this period ensemble comedy about a pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading
The Best view | The Boat That Rocked – Sleazy hi-jinks on board Richard Curtis’s leaky comic vessel
The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis’s celebration of the world of 1960s pirate radio, is a hit and myth affair. For Curtis, the outlaw spirit of the pirates didn’t just shake up the nation’s airwaves. In his film’s version of … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | Doubt
Is it good to have doubt? I can’t comment on that question with regards to faith, but in a world where everyone’s so different, it’s surely foolish and naïve, and even rather dangerous, to have too much certainty. That’s my … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Amy Adams, Doubt, John Patrick Shanley, Jospeh Foster II, Meryl Streep, movie talk, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Viola Davis
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The Best view | Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman’s new movie: self-indulgent twaddle or surreal masterpiece?
As a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman has become a byword for cinematic jiggery-pokery, a master of tricky, self-reflexive storytelling who has bamboozled viewers with his scripts for such mind-bending movies as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless … Continue reading
The Boat That Rocked – Buoyant 60s pop keeps Richard Curtis’s leaky vessel afloat
Yes, we know it’s been a fortnight since The Boat That Rocked set sail in British cinemas, but it’s taken the crew here at Movie Talk all this while to find our sea legs since stepping on board Richard Curtis’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases
Tagged 1960s, all day and all of the night, Bill Nighy, Boat That Rocked, easybeats, elenore, Emma Thompson, friday on my mind, kinks, let's spend the night together, Philip Seymour Hoffman, pirate radio, pop music, rhys ifans, Richard Curtis, Rolling Stones, troggs, turtles, with a girl like you
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52nd Times BFI London Film Festival – could this be your only chance to see these films?
My post on the press launch of the London Film Festival last week highlighted a number of the event’s most prominent movies, including the opening and closing galas – Frost/Nixon and Slumdog Millionaire. If you miss these films during the … Continue reading
Posted in London Film Festival, News
Tagged Achilles and the Tortoise, Anna Boden, Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Frost/Nixon, London Film Festival, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Fleck, Ryan Gosling, Slumdog Millionaire, Sugar, Synecdoche New York, Takashi Kitano, yakuza, Zeno's paradox
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