Category Archives: Film
September Newsletter: On Memories of A Good Year and the Film of the Fall
Photos: Classiq Journal I first watched A Good Year when it first came out, 15 years ago. Then I forgot everything about it. And then one day this summer I found the dvd in our family country … Read More
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This Summer We’re Channelling: Sigourney Weaver in The Year of Living Dangerously
Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver in The Year of Living Dangerously, 1982. Wayang Productions/MGM There are few things I appreciate about a film more than its sense of place. That’s what Peter Weir achieved in The Year of Living … Read More
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August Newsletter: On River… and Radio Silence
Photos: Classiq Journal I still haven’t watched all River Phoenix’s movies. I like the feeling that there are still movies of his I am yet to discover, that I have to wait to watch another film of … Read More
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This Summer We’re Channelling: Lauren Bacall in Key Largo
She was “one of the boys”. Indeed, she was the honorary female member of the Rat Pack. She was the real deal, one of a kind. Just as Bogart. In Key Largo, dressed in a full, pleated wool skirt with generous side pockets and white dress shirt, pieced together with a wide buckle belt, Lauren Bacall channels the same restrained elegance and distinction that Bogart’s look does. Read More
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This Summer We’re Channelling: Léa Seydoux in “Saint Laurent”
One July afternoon in 1968, Yves Saint Laurent met Loulou de la Falaise. She represented both the aristocratic bearing and expressive freedom, both innate elegance and excess, both beauty and dark sensuality. Léa Seydoux has the presence and grace and luminous aura to carry out the role of Loulou de la Falaise in the film Saint Laurent. Read More
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