Articles posted on January 22nd, 2005

John Boorman, Excalibur (1981)

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 • 7:53 am

I saw this movie in a French movie theatre in the 1980s, while I was still a university student — and I remember being quite taken by it, especially because of my original attraction to the Arthurian legend, and also because of the way music was used in this movie. I think it was one […]

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John Curran, We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2004)

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 • 7:00 am

I’d read a rather glowing review of this film in The New Yorker a few months ago, and it was on pay-per-view this week, so I thought I’d give it a try. I don’t really like pay-per-view much, mostly because the programmers still haven’t grasped the fact that, even in North America, most movie watchers […]

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