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I don’t need anniversaries to remember | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/09/11 | Soi kèo
Today is the day. My morning newspaper spent the entire cover and 29 pages to remember the “day that changed the world” as they put it. But I don’t need an official anniversary as …
Watching Malick the wrong way | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/09/07 | Soi kèo
Deep down I knew I was doing it wrong as I watched Terrence Malick’s The New World from 2005. My TV screen would have been huge with the measures of the early 80s, but …
The most devastating divorce movie I’ve seen | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/09/06 | Soi kèo
Life can be a really shitty place and there are different ways to deal with this fact. Some people ignore it, pretending it didn’t happen, using work, drugs or religion to get relief – …
The Rise of the Invisible Actor | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/08/22 | Soi kèo
It seems as if my memory capacity has hit the roof. My brain cells are dying off. I don’t want to know how exactly how quickly to be honest, so if you know the …
How to share movies with your children | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/08/12 | Soi kèo
Have we got an obligation as movie lovers to make sure that our kids watch certain films as a part of their education? Are our reasons for using our parental privilege, more or less …
Are you a film geek or just someone who likes to watch movies? | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/08/10 | Soi kèo
A lot of people like to watch movies. As a matter of fact most people I know do that in one form or another, if so just snoozing in front of whatever happens to …
Crawling out from my rock, meeting Juno | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/08/08 | Soi kèo
When Juno came out a few years ago I was sort of living under a rock, at least as far as movies were concerned. I didn’t notice. And maybe that was just as well. …
A happy surprise – or a sad disappointment | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/08/07 | Soi kèo
Many of the film writers and podcasters I follow claim that they avoid to see any trailer or review about a movie before they have seen it themselves. While I don’t accuse them for …
My thoughts on movie ratings | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/31 | Soi kèo
How come that we give out grades on movies in the form of a number, but not on books, theatre performances or art? This question was raised by my local newspaper six months ago, …
In an empty cinema no one can hear you cry | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/27 | Soi kèo
I’ve been a cinema visitor for about 40 years. But I’ve never found myself to be the only person in the audience until the other night, as I watched Beginners. “Where do you want …