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1-6January2008 :: This Week

06January2008 [weekly]

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• re-watched The Transporter; entertaining, and I like the not-too-stylised fight style
• re-watched Sin City; love the look, and the storytelling
• watched Fauteuils d’orchestre; Cécile de France has this cute boyish thing going, and of course I love Paris, but a mostly by-the-numbers story
• watched Blake Snake Moan, and loved it; had initially been put off by the marketing of it as an exploitation flick, and Sam Jackson just looked like a magical negro; but saw it in the video store and discovered it was made by the guy who made Hustle & Flow — so glad I gave it a chance; it’s a blues movie at heart, its characters are flawed and remarkably human
• watched The Science of Sleep; very weird, but whimsical and surreal — I can see why so many compared it to Amélie; all told was a little too strange — so felt gimmicky at times — but was entertaining
• saw Andrew Bird at The Famous Spiegeltent as part of the Sydney Festival; extremely impressed; beautiful songs with great build-up as he and the band put down loops, knocking out a riff on the violin, and a drumbeat, then adding to those for the song proper; (it helped that bits of it got very bluesy, and after I’m Not There and Blake Snake Moan that was a guaranteed win)

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