Category Archives: Cinema

Cléo from 5 to 7

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Steve Exeter

From the opening credits of Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, you know this is going to be a stylish and important film of the French New Wave, a period of Cinema history dominated by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. In the … Continue reading →

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Jack Lemmon

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Steve Exeter

Amazon.co.uk Widgets I hadn’t planned to write about actors specifically, as my intent was to focus on certain key films and directors.  However, as this is also a personal journal it should reflect its author to some extent and those who … Continue reading →

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Rango

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Steve Exeter

With Rango, his first completely animated feature film, co-writer/director Gore Verbinski returns to the anarchic spirit of his movie debut Mousehunt as he follows the existential quest of hapless hero Lars, a chameleon voiced by the ever quixotic Johnny Depp. … Continue reading →

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The Sound of Music: 45th Anniversary Edition

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Steve Exeter

The Sound of Music was not one of my parents’ favourite things so, consequently, I do not have any fond childhood memories of it as I have for the Wizard of Oz or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which were always Christmas … Continue reading →

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 35th Anniversary Edition

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Steve Exeter

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has always been something of a guilty pleasure dating back to my days as a teenager appearing in am-dram musical revues inspired by it because the performing rights were always strictly reserved for professional productions until March 2000.  The original … Continue reading →

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Alfred Hitchcock

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Steve Exeter

Amazon.co.uk Widgets In a single decade between 1954 and 1964 Alfred Hitchcock would Produce and Direct a dozen perfect movies, most notably Rear Window, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds and Marnie.  Although only accounting for a third of his career, this would … Continue reading →

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Spike Lee

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Steve Exeter

Amazon.co.uk Widgets After I returned from my tour of America in 1991 I took a job working in a retail Video shop and this presented me, as an avid movie fan, with two key benefits; the first was the opportunity … Continue reading →

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Arizona Dream

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Steve Exeter

Almost 20 years before the overhyped Inception focused on the phenomenon of dreaming Emir Kusturica directed Johnny Depp in the surreal comic fantasy Arizona Dream.  The movie was produced by Claudie Ossard (Delicatessen/Amélie) and is typical of the sort of … Continue reading →

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Woody Allen

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Steve Exeter

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Woody Allen has been writing and directing a new film project each a year for the last half a century, he has also acted in many of them, although in recent years he usually takes a smaller role, providing the comic … Continue reading →

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Me and Orson Welles

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Steve Exeter

When I heard that teenage heartthrob Zac Efron was going to star in Richard Linklater’s film based on the novel by Robert Kaplow about a fledgling actor who gets his lucky break playing Lucius in Orson Welles’ legendary Mercury Theatre Broadway debut production of Julius Caesar in 1937, … Continue reading →

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