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Touchstone (3. All the Time in the World)
Baby, baby, baby… you’re out of time… Rachel, lost and alone... read more
Ghosts on the Moor
Three women spend Christmas in a remote cottage on Dartmoor to escape problems... read more
Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Some kind of wonderful
As with most of you, the name Michel Gondry first came across my radar with Massive Attack’s Protection video, followed by the sublime Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, where the French director’s lo-fi, off kilter palette seemed the perfect match for Charlie Kaufmann’s equally wonky view of the world. But Gondry’s follow up to that, The Science of Sleep, was an indulgent mess: the epitome of a clever music video director who can’t handle a proper story. Well, that’s what …
My new favourite screenwriter…
Michael Clayton is released on DVD this week just as we gear up for the Oscars, which I’m hoping will be a memorable night for writer-director Tony Gilroy, because this is one film that deserves to be recognised as a modern classic. I missed it at the cinema towards the end of 2007 despite very tempting trailers which promised an off-beat take on the legal thriller genre. At the time I didn’t realise just how off-beat that take would be. …
How to get ahead in advertising…
It is elegantly shot and superbly written. It’s so classy it sweats Chanel No 5. It is the year’s best drama. It is Mad Men, and it’s coming to BBC4 this month. Created by Sopranos veteran Matthew Weiner, it deals with a Madison Avenue advertising agency (Mad Men, geddit?) in 1960, and has just bagged two Golden Globes: Best TV Drama and Best Actor in a TV Drama for Jon Hamm. Right from the start, dramatic irony is a key device. …
