Dirk’s Five – How do you solve a problem like Mike Leigh (ah)?
In the comments to my piece on NAKED (1993), an issue was raised that comes up a lot when discussing Mike Leigh’s films. Chris said: I sometimes find that his […]
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Dirk’s Five: Cut to the chase
“Cut to the chase,” is one of those Hollywood phrases that have entered the everyday idiom. Before it was adopted by impatient middle-managers, its an expression that dates back to […]
Dirk’s Five: Say it again Sam
Creativity is a matter for the police. The first law of creativity is theft. Bertold Brecht AMORES PERROS and LA HAINE are the first two films that are part of […]
Dirk’s Five: Pup Fiction
As much as I love AMORES PERROS now, I was initially reluctant to see it when it first came out. The depiction of dog fighting caused controversy in Britain which […]
Dirk’s Five – Gotta Mitchum All
He’s one of the finest actors I’ve ever had anything to do with. His air of casualness, or rather, his lack of pomposity is put down as a lack of […]
Woodython Five (12): Woody’s Round-Up!
I’m not really known as a ‘completer finisher’, I’m more of an ‘ideas man’, who throws random thoughts into the ring in the hope that one eventually takes hold and […]
Dirk’s Five: Tarantinofornication
“To Tarantino” is to rip off wholesale, because you have no ideas yourself, and pretend it’s a homage. “Toshiya Fujita got Tarantinoed.” UrbanDicitonary.com Writing a critique of post-Star Wars cinema, […]
Dirk’s Five: Andie MacDowell, an appreciation
Rosalie Anderson ‘Andie’ Macdowell, actress, model and mother who is recipient of the prodigeous Goldene Kamera (the Germans adored her performance as Dorothy Winters, alongside the divine John Travolta in […]
Dirk’s Five – krautrocksampler
It began with a joke name taken from the Amon Düül psychedelic improvisation ‘Mama Düül and her Sauerkrautband strike up!’ and changed the face of pop. Stockhausen and the Mothers […]
Woodython Five (11) – For Hire
“…it seemed to me like a very standard film persona for a comedian. Someone who is a physical coward, who lusts after women, who is good hearted but ineffectual and […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 