Month: August 2017

‘L’Atalante’ 1934 Last night I finally watched, L’Atalante which features on many top ten film lists. I was very excited, having moved it up the list to watch earlier than …

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Making ‘The Godfather’ Spent the last 48 hours writing my essay on The Godfather (1972) to publish on this website. This day, 37 years ago, 20 August 1980, was the day I met …

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I’ve Seen Greatness 2017 I’m calculating what I have yet to see and working out my Darwinian list of film scheduling. I’m also trying to polish another essay. I’ve realised that I …

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writing writing writing It is the end of Week 7 and it’s time to reflect on what I’ve seen so far that is on the 100 Best Films list of critics/academics …

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‘In Paradisum’ 2017 Amongst the other things that people do in their lives when they’re not watching movies, which is working, I completed (a project on Tuesday of) a film I’ve …

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‘The Silence’ 1963 I was so intrigued by this Ingmar Bergman film which I liked visually, and which completely arrested me, that I watched it for a third time in …

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‘The Silence’ 1963 I managed to make it back to Lane Cove Library before it closed so I could renew the Faith trilogy. Well, this is the last Ingmar Bergman …

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‘The Communicants’ 1963 I read somewhere recently that the second film (known in English as Winter Light) in the Faith trilogy is called, “Nattvardsgasterna’. When I did a translation online it …

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Birthday 2010 I looked at the date on my phone and realized it would soon be the first day of my daughter’s seventh year of life. I decided to take a …

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‘Winter Light’ 1963 Last night was Winter Light (1963), the second film in Ingmar Bergman’s Faith trilogy. By chance I came across this three-disc set in the library which wasn’t filed …

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