I somehow missed Pawlikowski’s Cold War (2018) by blinking at an inopportune moment, but I remember enjoying his Margate-set, faintly post-apocalyptic immigrant drama Last Resort (2000) with Dina Korzun and Paddy Considine. There I might have reached for Ken Loach and Lindsay Anderson, but here there is a feel of Tarkovsky without quite so much striving for poetry, in glorious black and white. Continue reading →
Tangerine Dream – Revolution of Sound (Margarete Kreuzer, 2017)
I guess there’s always been a contradiction at the heart of appreciating bands which go through multiple line ups. I don’t hold to the school of thought that Pink Floyd stopped when Syd left — but I think I prefer a Yes with a Jon Anderson to one without, even if, say, Chris Squire drove the sound. For me the best Tangerine Dream albums are the Froese-Franke-Baumann ones, broadly speaking the Virgin years, but those with Schmoelling come close. And I like Klaus Schulze and Steve Joliffe’s solo works more than Franke or Baumann’s.
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So, having disinterred a list of films what I watched in 2020 (minus those I kept no record of), an alphabetical top ten. I struggled — there are a few here I admired but didn’t like. Poor stamina didn’t help.
Continue reading →Having found various film absent from my list, I can’t claim to be complete. Various others will have been watched for teaching or research (and I think I watched 2010 twice, which is punishment enough). I really ought to make sure I watch more of Curzon 12 before I talk myself into BritBox…
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Subject to Change 