rehna November 18th, 2009
A serious man is hilarious. Not the titular man of-course; he has much to be depressed about let alone serious, but the film. The Coen brothers’ latest offering is a laugh out loud black comedy that only they could have pulled off. Continue Reading »
rehna November 6th, 2009
I spent 3 fantastic weeks at part of the press covering the London film festival. Continue Reading »
rehna November 6th, 2009
Written By: Regina Brett , 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio Continue Reading »
rehna November 6th, 2009
Instead of steamy sex ‘Brief Encounter’ gives us steamy railway stations!’
That was one of the comments made at a discussion at the The 5th European Psychoanalytic Film Festival exploring inner conflict and emotional pain as depicted in the David Lean classic.
Brief Encounter is one of my all time favourite films and it was fascinating to hear it being discussed by experts in this field. Continue Reading »
rehna November 6th, 2009
I had to confess to Alex Taylor, winner of an award for his short film ‘Kids might fly’, that I don’t really ‘get’ short films. Like short stories they sometimes baffle me.
However, I had enjoyed Taylor’s film. Continue Reading »
rehna November 4th, 2009
It’s hard to imagine any of today’s manufactures, unoriginal, female pop-stars entrancing their audience now, even in their prime, let alone in 20 or 30 years time. Continue Reading »
rehna November 4th, 2009
I missed the beginning of this film and came in late to see a particularly harrowing and unpleasant scene. Did I really want to spend my morning watching this bleak stuff, I asked myself several times over the next 10 or 15 minutes. And then, slowly, the film took a vice-like grip on me.
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