A SONG A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY: July 2013

Friday, July 26, 2013

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

(...) Me and You is by some way better than that – admittedly not difficult – but it still comes across as a stylish exercise in willed claustrophobia (or claustrophilia, as the director puts it) without a great deal to say. The story – in which a teenage boy and his older half-sister spend a week together in a cramped basement – is adapted from a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti, who also co-scripted along with Bertolucci and two others. One of Ammaniti’s earlier novels provided the basis for Gabriele Salvatores’s I’m Not Scared (2003), about claustrophobia of a different sort: a small boy finds another boy being held captive in a hole in the ground and comes to realise that his father is involved in the child’s kidnapping. Salvatores’s film is let down in its final few minutes by a lurch into sentimental religious symbolism, but luckily the religiosity that blighted Little Buddha (1993) plays no part in Me and You – although Bertolucci has admitted to making the ending of his film happier than it is in the novel. (...)
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-me-you

Monday, July 08, 2013

Hearty Bruce

Now we've had him and the E-Street Band out here in Spain, let us not forget he is a real American rocker. That's why he's able to write songs like these.

'Tougher Than The Rest': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_91hNV6vuBY&feature=share&list=RD02zSEYQ4Rpgks