Edwardian London: a nanny is hired to look after the two children of a pompous banker and his sufragette wife.
Astonishing and delightful, with scenes that read like acid trips: there are supurb performances throughout.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
The Seventh Seal (1957): review- 3/10
A knight, returns to Plague-ridden Sweden with his squire, where he plays chess with Death.
Beautifully filmed but very dull: like walking in quicksand.
The reason it is boring is that the characters are merely symbolic, they seem not to have real relations with each other, so identifying with any of them is well-nigh impossible.
Moreover, the film is structured as a run of very staged theatrical set-pieces, a style of filmaking certain to induce extreme tedium.
Some of these set-pieces are supposedly humourous- but it is the sort of "humour" one gets in the theatre and which never induces any spontaneous laughter.
Beautifully filmed but very dull: like walking in quicksand.
The reason it is boring is that the characters are merely symbolic, they seem not to have real relations with each other, so identifying with any of them is well-nigh impossible.
Moreover, the film is structured as a run of very staged theatrical set-pieces, a style of filmaking certain to induce extreme tedium.
Some of these set-pieces are supposedly humourous- but it is the sort of "humour" one gets in the theatre and which never induces any spontaneous laughter.
Taxi Driver (1976): review- 10/10
An insomniac Vietnam vet turned taxi driver takes objection to the moral condition of his New York and, wearing a new "Mohican" hairstyle, shoots several people.
Hauntingly filmed with mesmeric performances.
Hauntingly filmed with mesmeric performances.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Waterfall; Carrier Mk II
Waterfall, oil on card, 8.5 x 11.5 cm- discarded*
This is a another carrier, with some improvements from yesterday's model. It works reasonably well: the picture needed only a little retouching.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Footbridge near Iguatemi Shopping; paint box and carrying wet pictures
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This is a cigar box that I've been using over the last couple of days for carrying materials. I usually use a French Easel, which is an elegant folding easel. However it is rather heavy, and therefore restricts the places I can go to work at to locations within about a mile and a half.
This cigar box is good, but does not function as a little table, so I suffer the difficulty of having to find places with benches or convenient walls.
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Above is a little folder I'm trying out use for transporting the pictures. I shall re make it with sturdier cardboard.
These experiments will inform my painting journey in Italy and Malta.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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