Kết quả tìm kiếm cho: 12 years
Everything looks better in black and white | The Velvet Café
“Everything looks better in black and white”. Paul Simon sang those words in Central Park in 1981, and he’s sang them to me during more car journeys than I’ve kept track on. If I …
What is a good film critic? | The Velvet Café
Do you know if your favourite film critic has a diploma in film studies? I don’t for sure and what more: I don’t care. Not a bit. Film criticism isn’t a branch of the …
It got the science right – but what about the story? | The Velvet Café
Growing up with a mother who has a job that partly is connected to the fight against epidemical diseases can be a bit of a pain. Ask my children. It severely limits the variety …
Midlife crises tackled in the basin | The Velvet Café
I always thought that midlife crisis was supposed to be temporary condition. Unavoidable, as a teenage girl getting her periods, but at least you wouldn’t have to put up with it for an extended …
Spaghetti Western tastes better on Iceland | The Velvet Café
Why is it that a classical spaghetti western gets so much better if you move it to a new environment? Swap the desert for a desolate Icelandic landscape, trade the guns for casting knives …
Tap dancing was never lovelier | The Velvet Café
Saturday night. My 17 year old is on her way out to see some friends, and pops into the living room to say goodbye. She throws a glance at the TV screen and then …
The post where I try to talk about a movie I shouldn’t talk about | The Velvet Café
Here’s the thing. There is this movie which I watched and loved but I don’t know how to talk about it. The less I say the better. Some films are like that – being …
Ryan Gosling vs Ryan Gosling | The Velvet Café
Ryan Gosling seems to be everywhere these days. Not that I mind. He’s not only good looking; he’s got that area of melancholy around him that reminds me a little bit of a very …
Will Rosemary’s Baby beat The Exorcist? | The Velvet Café
A couple of years ago there was a debate going on in the Filmspotting forum about which movie was the better – Rosemary’s Baby or The Exorcist. It appears as if The Exorcist won …
My life in movies – 1998 – 2011 | The Velvet Café
So, I’ve been sharing my life in movies in a couple of blog posts. Time has come for the third and concluding part, covering the years from 1998 until the present. As in my …