Category Archives: XIIDX
XIIDX day 12: Lifeboat
Subtle, suspenseful, funny, ironic, haunting – Lifeboat is capital G capital A Great Art, a film that can stand beside Vertigo without blushing.
XIIDX day 12: Lifeboat
Subtle, suspenseful, funny, ironic, haunting – Lifeboat is capital G capital A Great Art, a film that can stand beside Vertigo without blushing.
XIIDX day 11: Berlin on screen
I thought I’d rummage around my YouTube links to put together a subjective cinematic snapshot of my adoptive hometown.
XIIDX day 11: Berlin on screen
I thought I’d rummage around my YouTube links to put together a subjective cinematic snapshot of my adoptive hometown.
XIIDX day 10: life after Fassbinder
Of the core of performers who featured regularly in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s movies, two of the most compelling were Ingrid Caven and Hanna Schygulla. Both still perform, whether in front of the camera or — occasionally — in cabaret.
XIIDX day 10: life after Fassbinder
Of the core of performers who featured regularly in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s movies, two of the most compelling were Ingrid Caven and Hanna Schygulla. Both still perform, whether in front of the camera or — occasionally — in cabaret.
XIIDX day 9: Glenn Gould
A brief highbrow diversion into the life and genius of Glenn Gould, the Canadian pianist known for his unparalleled mastery of Bach keyboard pieces (and in his honour I am typing this on a very low chair and mumbling a bit).
XIIDX day 9: Glenn Gould
A brief highbrow diversion into the life and genius of Glenn Gould, the Canadian pianist known for his unparalleled mastery of Bach keyboard pieces (and in his honour I am typing this on a very low chair and mumbling a bit).
XIIDX day 8: Citizen Mame
I don’t know about you, but I have one resolution this year: live, live, live! Inspired, of course, by Auntie Mame.
XIIDX day 8: Citizen Mame
I don’t know about you, but I have one resolution this year: live, live, live! Inspired, of course, by Auntie Mame.
XIIDX day 7: the help
New Year’s Eve, millions of German television viewers watch an 18-minute black & white programme which most of them have seen numerous times before, in a language which is second to their mother tongue at best.
XIIDX day 7: the help
New Year’s Eve, millions of German television viewers watch an 18-minute black & white programme which most of them have seen numerous times before, in a language which is second to their mother tongue at best.
XIIDX day 6: down and out in Paris
The life of Dadaist poet Jacques Rigaut, as well as his death (which we’ve already talked about) inspired Pierre Drieu La Rochelle’s 1931 novel Le feu follet (“The Fire Within”) which Louis Malle filmed in 1963.
XIIDX day 6: down and out in Paris
The life of Dadaist poet Jacques Rigaut, as well as his death (which we’ve already talked about) inspired Pierre Drieu La Rochelle’s 1931 novel Le feu follet (“The Fire Within”) which Louis Malle filmed in 1963.
XIIDX day 5: film poetry
Looking at Harry Smith’s early experiments in filmmaking a few weeks ago made me want to go back and explore other American pioneers of the form
XIIDX day 5: film poetry
Looking at Harry Smith’s early experiments in filmmaking a few weeks ago made me want to go back and explore other American pioneers of the form
XIIDX day 4: Hilde!
Knef was a peerless interpreter, with a voice of limited range but extraordinary expressive power; Ella Fitzgerald called her “the greatest singer without a voice”.
XIIDX day 4: Hilde!
Knef was a peerless interpreter, with a voice of limited range but extraordinary expressive power; Ella Fitzgerald called her “the greatest singer without a voice”.
XIIDX day 3: Merry Crispmas
This two-part documentary from 1970 finds Quentin Crisp at a curious mid-point. He’s past the trials of young adulthood which saw him literally beaten up on the street for flamboyant campery, but not yet settled into his elderly, august years as a “stately homo”.
XIIDX day 3: Merry Crispmas
This two-part documentary from 1970 finds Quentin Crisp at a curious mid-point. He’s past the trials of young adulthood which saw him literally beaten up on the street for flamboyant campery, but not yet settled into his elderly, august years as a “stately homo”.
XIIDX day 2: Sad songs, big hair
My favourite genre of music is something I call People With Big Hair Singing Sad Songs in TV Studios with Orchestra Around The Mid-Sixties a.k.a. PWBHSSSTSOAMS.
XIIDX day 2: Sad songs, big hair
My favourite genre of music is something I call People With Big Hair Singing Sad Songs in TV Studios with Orchestra Around The Mid-Sixties a.k.a. PWBHSSSTSOAMS.
XIIDX day 1: Happy birthday Baby Jesus!
Nothing says CHRISTMAS in big glittery capital letters like a Christmas spectacular from the great, sorely missed Pee-wee Herman.
XIIDX day 1: Happy birthday Baby Jesus!
Nothing says CHRISTMAS in big glittery capital letters like a Christmas spectacular from the great, sorely missed Pee-wee Herman.
XIIDX: because really, there’s nothing better on
Introducing: the Strange Flowers XII Days of Xmas Film Festival, a.k.a. XIIDX…a.k.a. a bunch of videos I’m going to cue up for while I’m doing something Christmas-y. Or not.
XIIDX: because really, there’s nothing better on
Introducing: the Strange Flowers XII Days of Xmas Film Festival, a.k.a. XIIDX…a.k.a. a bunch of videos I’m going to cue up for while I’m doing something Christmas-y. Or not.
Strange Flowers 