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Secretary

Steven Shainberg (USA, 2002) For some reason I decided a few weeks back to create a ‘Gyllenhaal’ tag, to which films of both Gyllenhaal siblings would refer. I decided that having never seen a film starring either Gyllenhaal sibling, but thought it might be nice to click on a tag and see references to bothContinue reading “Secretary”

I have been a poor writer of late, for which I apologise. I have many posts near conclusion, and I need to pull my finger out really. Anyway, here is something I wrote in application for a Channel 4 job for which I applied recently. As I didn’t get that, I might as well postContinue reading

Mulholland Dr.

[Written ages ago] David Lynch (USA/France, 2001) I have a pile of DVDs that sit, unwatched. They wait, patiently, for the moment that they realise their potential and rotate at high speed inside my DVD player. The more I want to watch one of these discs, the longer they usually have to wait before fulfillingContinue reading “Mulholland Dr.”

I gave you the world, it was all for you

So Tom decided he would bang on a bit about the excellent ‘Capt. Midnight’, by Mike Patton’s* rather hit-and-miss Tomahawk. Good on him, it’s nice he likes the song enough to post about it et cetera. However, I always considered that my song (you know, because ownership of a recording is largely based on whetherContinue reading “I gave you the world, it was all for you”