Giles Brody was able to get his old employer to talk candidly about the recent Oscar nominations and who he felt had been snubbed.
When I was awoken on Wednesday last to the news of the Nobel Awards For Success In Motion Pictures and realised I knew not one jot of information about any of the contenders I decided to up my morphine dosage and watch as many films from the previous year (is it 2011 already?) to give you lot a damn good talking to about quality and the Nobel committees overwillingness to disregard it.
BEST PICTURE
The Book Of Eli
A riveting film about a man who simply can’t bare to part with a good book. The film poses many a question, the most mystifying of which is the identity of this elusive wordmsith Eli? Who is his publisher? And where I might buy a copy whose pages I can fondle carelessly from a deck chair underneath the showers of the local bathing pool? “Clinged film” is my trick to keeping my parchment from becoming over parched and just another wonderful way in which the filmed entertainment industry has enhanced my life for its considerable betterment.
An elder statesman reviews 500 Days Of Summer, part 2
Click here for Part 1
Giles Brody wanted compensation for his earlier dictation of my review, an idea I balked out, and immediately sent him on his way. What follows are my own notes, jotted down by quill before being painstakingly committed to a printing press for the benefit of the ages.
When last I made entry, I had to pause the machine as there was an urchin selling “lines” at the door. I bid him take his leave immediately and that the only lines he was likely to receive from me would be red lines on the back of his legs from the cane marks I was moments away from engraving on his common flesh. The whole wretched exchange left me so perturbed that I did not watch the remainder of the film until one year later whilst on the train. I viewed the entertainment on my grandsons portable wonder box whilst under a cloak I had over my head to blot out the blasted sun. Continue reading →
→ Leave a comment
Posted in Categories, Diaries, Features, Giles Brody, Movies
Tagged 500 days of summer, bawdio commentaries, film, giles brody, review