Gary Oldman wuz robbed.That is a...
Monday, 27 February 2012
Friday, 24 February 2012
Thursday, 23 February 2012
In what is becoming something of an annual tradition on The Agitation of the Mind, here’s a raised glass to Emily Blunt – for my money of the best actors of her generation – who celebrates her 29th birthday today. I normally upload unapologetic cheesecake shots in these kind of entries, but whenever I see Emily Blunt I’m reminded of that quote about the eyes being the windows to the so...
Saturday, 18 February 2012
My two least favourite genres are the kidnap movie and the courtroom drama. The same reason applies: by their own definition, they’re inherently uncinematic. There are only so many angles from which you can film the interior of a courtroom, or the enclosed space in which a kidnap victim is held. A static milieu; narratives that unfold via dialogue rather than by visual pacing or rhythm.So I approached ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’ without much...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
‘Lassie Come Home’ isn’t a film I’d normally review on Agitation, however my good friend Viv Apple has provided such a unique perspective on this evergreen family favourite – at once a review and a piece of social history – that I’m honoured to share her recollections on the blog.I have waited nearly seventy years to see this film; the story of a dog who couldn’t bear to be parted from her owner, a young Yorkshire boy called Joe. Watching it on ...
Saturday, 11 February 2012
... I've been a bit tied up lately.There's been plenty going on with the Alan Sillitoe Memorial Fund. The open poetry competition closed last month, with 486 poems entered by 185 poets, netting over £850 for the fund. We're hosting a prize-giving event at the Nottingham Contemporary on 2 March, featuring live music from local roots band Blue Yonder. A literary lunch with Nottingham's premier crime writer John Harvey is taking place on 21 April, and...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Happy 83rd birthday to eccentric genius Alejandro Jodorowsky.“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, ‘Is it half full or half empty?’ So I drank the water. No more problem.”“What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous....
Friday, 3 February 2012
Sometimes you hear of an actor’s death and you think “Aw, that’s a shame, I liked that person.”Sometimes you hear of an actor’s death and it hits you in the solar plexus, winding you, doubling you up and taking everything out of you.Ben Gazzara: ‘Anatomy of a Murder’, ‘The Killing of a Chinese Bookie’, ‘Saint Jack’, ‘Tales of Ordinary Madness’, ‘The Big Lebowski’, ‘Summer of Sam’, ‘Dogville’.Ben Gazzara: legend.Rest in peace, sir. Cinema is poorer...
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