such honorable apro pos nohing at all at all woof

btw-----Does the Metropolitan Police still have a 'shoot' to kill policy? Any ideas Stephen Frears? Oh- I forgot to add: such honorable men (and now women). How could such a policy be (ever) possible? Boris Johnson? How could such a person as the honorable you become Mayor of London so said many. But you did to so much glee. Easy as riding a bike - isn't it 'gov'!? There is so much honor involved it's hard to get a ticket for the 'honorable' queue for the loo (that's 'shit hole' in American). I guess we s**t in our pants for hour. And then shake hands.

this link may 'wet your appetite' for what is to come and THIS.... a colliding 'something' near you
- at least it wasn't a tank rolling over a citizen of the state. Come on. That's so much worse. You get awards for filming that.
The Square (51st New York Film Festival). Go HERE for more from the New York Film Fest)

Sometimes—there's God—so quickly!

About Time

Nobody's Daughter Haewon (London Film Festival) (New York Film Festival)
 
The Last of the Unjust (London Film Festival) (New York Film Festival)

A Touch of Sin  (London Film Festival) (New York Film Festival)

At Berkeley  (London Film Festival) (New York Film Festival)

Like Father, Like Son  (London Film Festival) (New York Film Festival)

Norte, The End of History  (London Film Festival) (New York Film Festival)

The Missing Picture (London Film Festival) (New York Film Festival)
 

and provocative as ever, the Raindance Film Festival 2013 opens on Wednesday.

apropos ...nothing at all...at all

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"I am a dead man. You have your desire of me. What you have hunted me for is not my actions, but the thoughts of my heart. It is a long road you have opened. For first men will disclaim their hearts and presently they will have no hearts. God help the people whose Statesmen walk your road."  "For Wales. Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. But for Wales?"

"What matters is not that it's true, but that I believe it; or no, not that I believe it, but that I believe it."
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

anda....

 if you thought the world was topsy-turvy (which of course many just couldn't imagine in New York)- though such a thought gives added resonance to....


Correction: August 30, 2013
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this obituary referred incorrectly to the prime minister of Ireland. Enda Kenny, the prime minister, is a man. The earlier version also misstated the name of the institution from which Mr. Heaney received a bachelor’s degree. It is Queen’s University of Belfast, not Queen’s College.

... I feel Pinta coming on (Jon Stewart)- is that an illegal act?

...memory

It's strange. Reading a review of Upstream Color I remembered what I'd written about it on Planet Lucre seeing it earlier in the year in New York. Only: what I remember writing wasn't there at all! No gremlins, just, strange memory. And it seemed very apt for that film and following Seamus Heaney to write something about that. I remembered writing something like: one sort of wishes the director had made more clear a Manchurian Candidate conspiracy idea that very clearly still (and forever more) has relevance today. But mollified that view by saying that was simply not what the director had wanted to make. Instead it is a very, VERY strange film. And if you are tired of American indy films that tick all the 'value' boxes 3 times over then THIS is a film you are very unlikely to see ever again. Or indeed that will tick ANY box whatsoever. The New Yorker review does an excellent job of exploring the Thoreau/Emerson/Hawthorne world that clearly influenced if not guided director Shane Carruth and has very sadly been watered down by educators into some pasturised/saccherine 'wholeness' intake for mass American consumption. Nature with a life-long expiration date.