FF OTT
Deep in film festival programme highlighter mode at the moment, with the Sydney Film Festival opening in less than a month (Attenberg! The Arbor! Meek’s Cutoff!), followed by Melbourne’s in late July. Not to mention the indigenous film festival that was just held at the Sydney Opera House, the Spanish Film Festival on right now [...]
People who put ‘living’ before ‘a living’
The new film adaptation of Brighton Rock which repositions Graham Greene’s classic novel in the mods vs rockers clash of 1964 inspired a mod film special on my radio show Too Much today. While digging up old newsreels about the brawls (“the threat of long haired youngsters with knives indulging in an orgy of hooliganism”) [...]
I got us a song
As part of my radio show, I see a lot of films. Most films, in fact. There are some that critics aren’t invited to (the review-proofs & the stinkers) and some that don’t quite fall into my jurisdiction, but most films that came out in the cinema this year, I’ve seen. The worst ones are [...]
Talkies
Ok, more questioning than praising, I guess. Here I am asked about my internet use by the world’s dearest Ralph Lauren lover and poet. Here I am asked about film habits by a new pal who recently let me screen Parker Posey’s Party Girl in public. It features an old, unglamorous photo of me staring [...]
Waiting a million years, just for us
To Saint Valentine! Hooray! I did a little Valentine’s celebration on Too Much today, and perhaps I was playing a few love bummers (Can’t Find Love, Love is Gone, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Down With Love), as I started getting messages from listeners wishing me well in that ‘don’t worry pet, you’ll be [...]
Much too much, much too young
A name for my new Sunday radio show on FBI dawned on me, finally. It’s called TOO MUCH, inspired by this scene from incredible Swinging London film Smashing Time (1967) — make sure to keep watching for the dancing dandy in the violet velvet suit. In fact, you may recognise him as Rita Tushingham’s interior [...]