Dirk’s Five: Odeon Memories
In a mash up of our usual features, this is a Starburst Memory that meets the Dirk’s Five. The Odeon in Bolton held a very special space in the heart […]
Category Archives: Chris’ List
Chris: Grease (Kleiser, US, 1978)
It’s got a groove, it’s got a meaning Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion Grease is the way we are feeling Barry Gibb George Lucas […]
CHRIS: Lost in La Mancha (Fulton, Pepe, US, UK, 2002)
“If anything goes wrong, at least this time, I’ll have witnesses.” – Terry Gilliam (in THE HAMSTER FACTOR, AND OTHER TALES OF TWELVE MONKEYS It appears that Terry Gilliam is […]
CHRIS: Diabolo Menthe (Peppermint Soda) (Kurys, France, 1977)
One of the themes of this list of post-STAR WARS films is the ‘autobiographical film’: the struggle to present ‘the personal’ in a medium that is collaborative, expensive and ‘in […]
CHRIS: Pump Up The Volume (Moyle, US, Canada, 1990)
Do you ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked? In the late eighties there was a great deal of nostalgia for the sixties. There was something […]
CHRIS: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Hughes, US, 1986)
“The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads – they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.” – Grace, the school secretary John Hughes is a […]
CHRIS: Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) (Tykwer, Germany, 1998)
Survey my record collection and you’ll find The Ramones sitting alongside Yes. So it is with films too. For every STALKER (1979), which is like a triple album gatefold of […]
CHRIS: La Haine (Hate) (Kassovitz, France, 1995)
“I don’t know if its really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I’m a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you’re a black […]
CHRIS: Amores Perros (Love’s a Bitch) (Iñárritu, Mexico, 2000)
“You and your plans. You know what my grandmother used to say? If you want to make God laugh… tell Him your plans.” Susana to Octavio (her grandmother is […]
CHRIS: True Romance (Scott, US, 1993)
” When my friends from that time see TRUE ROMANCE, they get melancholy; it brings back a certain time for us. It was weird when I first saw the movie […]
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