the continuing conversation between art and life
Friday Night is Health & Safety Film Night again at Comma And. Tonight, our resident Health & Safety presenter, Professor Mal Archaic is absent, due to over-caffeination. But he did leave a note of which film to show tonight, cunningly disguised as a 43 page dossier. Roll the tape, Rufus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTrxEQnPtAg
a humorous "health and safety" film about sports coaching
For the first time, I watched "Rocky" through - best of all, the attached DVD commentary by Sylvester Stallone - who comes across clearly as a writer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6bLJrQE4QY He talks about finding the heart of the story - and how financially broke he was when writing. There are wry and ironic looks back - and …
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Friday Night is Health & Safety film night with Professor Mal Archaic. Tonight's humorous film: tourist photography
Spoiler alert: I've seen this film and am about to talk about it. However, I suspect that not many of you will have seen this Japanese film, with subtitles. It's precisely the sort of quality foreign film you go to a film festival to get a chance to see. Here's its official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7KzQ2Mbq1o I …
I've just watched "Paterson" - a Jim Jarmusch film about a bus driver who secretly writes poetry and delights in overheard conversation. It's a really gentle, observant film with not much action, but a lot of listening. Here's a really good summary of it by reviewer Mark Kermode, who sums it up as a 'mood …
Cezanne portraits exhibition - coming on film this week
Yes, Patrons, in 2018, back without popular demand: Friday night is Health and Safety Film Night at this particular blog circus tent. Tonight's lecture subject is: "Easy Money". Yes, that's "Easy Money". See, I even said the word "money" quite simply. It's easy. But not so simple to pick up. Roll the cinefilm, Beowulf, there's …
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A one minute animation of a poem "In the Dead of Winter"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFuH4o2yxXw Poem "Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye. from "Words under the Words - Selected Poems" 1995, Published by Far Corner Books Film by Anthony Fratilillo. The link to view it, if you want to share it (and why wouldn't you, it's tremendous)
