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London Film Festival: Meek’s Limbo
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— 31 Oct 2010 Pete Baran 3 comments

Kelly Reichardt’s previous two movies have been lo-key gems. The lost in the woods burn of Old Joy and the one girl and her dog dilemmas at the heart of Wendy And Lucy. Both have taken small scale stories and got deep enough into their protagon[…]

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Forced Entertainment – The Thrill of it All
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— 29 Oct 2010 CarsmileSteve Comment

So the point is I can’t really objectively review a performance by a company who I’ve seen nearly twenty times when, in a way, they’re almost all a continuation of the same performance, it’s just sometimes they’re all sa[…]

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London Film Festival: Two Gates of Sleep
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— 27 Oct 2010 marna Comment

There’s precious little dialogue in this film; a couple of mumbled lines, and some yelling of names about sums it up. But the two main actors have a wide range of non-verbal noises at their disposal; they grunt, yelp, pant and sniff, splutter, […]

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4, week 6)
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— 26 Oct 2010 Alan 3 comments

Hazel Robinson hosts a discussion of children’s literature and morality tales from Struwwelpeter to Lemony Snicket. Mark Sinker lifts the lid on Victorian nonsense, Julia Heller suggests suitable reading for the “very advanced”, and[…]

The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Songs Of All Time No.14: SHIRLEY BASSEY “Goldfinger”
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— 25 Oct 2010 Pete Baran 2 comments

Goldfinger by Ash is a bit of a dirge, and amlost certainly one of those songs named because somewhere along the line it sounded to someone somewhere a bit like Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey. Its unclear from their performance, and the song where in t[…]

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Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #11 BLACK ORCHID aka NYSSA’S DREAM
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— 20 Oct 2010 mark sinker 2 comments

or “i dremt it in the hidden pantry with the freudo-oneirical screwdriver”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community, and crossposted[…]

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London Film Festival: Carlos Whisper
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— 19 Oct 2010 Pete Baran 1 comment

It seems an odd thing to say but the some of the most interesting things about Olivier Assayas’s 330 minute biopic of the world famous terrorist is what is left out. Which bearing in mind how much is left in (all 330 minutes of them) is not an[…]

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Guess My Theory: When Deigning at this Level
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— 19 Oct 2010 mark sinker 2 comments

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Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4, week 5)
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— 15 Oct 2010 CarsmileSteve Comment

Random start point, random guests, random topics. This weeks Lollards is all LOL no LARD, with Kat Stevens, Alix Campbell and Magnus Anderson being herded into opinions about topics they no nothing of by the medium of a fortune telling device and a p[…]

At The End Of The 1980s
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— 14 Oct 2010 Tom 44 comments

On New Years’ Eve 1989, I didn’t go to a party. I didn’t wish anyone a happy new decade. I don’t think I drank any champagne. I stayed at home and watched TV instead, and it was wonderful.
What I stayed home to watch was a spe[…]

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