Category Archives: Film

Terry Gilliam: On Ideas, Unlearning & Avoiding Debt

By splendid | Published: January 9, 2012

- – Some lessons on balancing life and creativity from Terry Gilliam. Just the tonic for a dull Monday.

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Are we talking about big Corellian ships now?

By splendid | Published: November 23, 2011

- – The blogosphere is full of stuff like this, especially where Star Wars is concerned, so I wouldn’t normally do this however this one jumped out for being slightly unusual and very well executed. It pleasantly reminded me of the work of Cedric Delsaux, which is nice.

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Midnight in Paris: not a surprise to find existentialism masquerading as comedy

By splendid | Published: November 14, 2011

- – Arguably with an oeuvre that seems to belong nicely to the 1970s and ’80s, Woody Allen’s time as an essential filmmaker is perhaps past. But nevertheless he does what he does, and what he does is to make comedy films that have a certain intellectual depth, and so it is that this latest [...]

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