CHRIS: Eureka (Roeg, US, 1983)
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.” Truman Capote, Answered Prayers – The Unfinished Novel When the The Greatest Films of All Time were published in Sight […]
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Starburst Memories: Brosnan Strikes Back!
Starburst Number 22 declares “The Return of Chewbacca!” alongside a full colour cover featuring him breathing into a hoover appliance. Of course, he was the character, more than any other, […]
Woodython Five (5): The Early Years
“It was unspeakably agonising. All day long I would shake and tremble, thinking about standing up that night before people and trying to be funny.” Woody Allen, 1966 Allan Stewart […]
CHRIS: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, US, 1980)
I was twelve years old when EMPIRE… was released. Months and months of insidious immersion in novel tie-ins, comic strips, Starburst features, Look-in posters (Han Solo and Princess Leia, in […]
Woodython Five (4) – Mia
“She’s a good actress. She can play many different roles. She has a very good range. She can play serious roles, she can play comic roles. She’s photogenic , very […]
STARBURST MEMORIES – Woody Allen on Woody Allen
At the beginning of this year’s Woodython, I promised to provide a review of some of the Woody literature available in the Dirk archive. Woody Allen on Woody Allen is […]
Dirk’s Five – High Faces
Dom-Dirk expressed surprise at the selection of TRAFFIC for my list. It was a conversation by text (its the only sober form of conversation that we have, and even that […]
CHRIS: Traffic (Soderbergh, US, 2000)
“It’s all downhill from here.” – Soderbergh, on winning the Palme D’or for his first film The film sections of the newspapers were filled with high-camp this week. On the […]
Woodython Five (3) – Crimewave
On Friday it was the monthly Dirk club, when Dom-Dirk and I pour us a single goblet of wine each and sit passing judgement on the great and the good. […]
Starburst Memories: Tired of reality?
You might consider that you wasted your youth. Perhaps you spent it shooting pool in some smoky hall, locked in your bedroom playing the guitar or just partying hard when […]
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