Small world. I won a Grammy for “Loves Ketchup”.

On Thursday night I finished Eric Rohmer’s series of Comedies and Proverbs with Friend of My Friend. It ended with a sight gag and a laugh and was overall a refreshing light truffle of a movie! It was a nice way to end the series! Almost as if Rohmer realised at the end that he had been neglecting the comedy part of…

And foggier, with a light drizzle.

Deathrace 2000 but driving on the left.

Sorry, but England already has a ‘postapocalyptic, furious, illegal night-time street race’, and it’s called the M25.

Who’s That Knocking at My Door(I Can’t Hear So Well)

Casinold

Considering the age of the rest of the cast, this one sounds like Oldfellas.

On Monday I watched Pauline at the Beach, which was a welcome summer story for a cold winter night. I don’t think I’m ever going to tire of Eric Rohmer’s old summer houses with great open windows overlooking overgrown yards, plaster walls bare but for a few photos and prints tacked up here and there. Everywhere…

Not all skinheads were Nazis. Hence SHARP - Skinheads Against Racist Practices.

They kept scoffing a people’s cheap shoes too.

“England has many legends. King Arthur. Robin Hood. An exciting cricket match. And the legend of the green children.”

The founding of Britain by the Trojans was just one of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s many tall tales. The real Troy was destroyed in the Bronze Age, and in all likelihood its only influence after that was literary.

Hypochromic anemia, or “green sickness,” is a disease that leaves red blood cells paler than normal.

Sounds like Ol’ Richard De Calne, Dick to his friends, was just spinning stories to explain his two new servants and the pile of dead Flemish peasants out back.

True Confessions (1981). Set in the late 40s, a cop with a huge chip on his shoulder (Robert Duvall) is investigating a murder inspired by the Black Dahlia (except it’s a rose tattoo here) and finds out that his brother (De Niro), an ambitious monsignor, may have known the victim and the killer. Great period detail,…

This week I continued into my winter with Eric Rohmer with the first two of his Comedies and Proverbs. I have a natural tendency to retreat from good things, to not use them up at once, to save them for later. So watching such great movies as these, two a week, week after week, is a battle against my instincts!

I don’t get the point of rebooting this and setting it in the 60s. It seems like it would be really hard to do that without it being a pale imitation of the original show.

While it’s true he was in hospital being treated for pneumonia, he was in fact Killed by Death.

Basil Motherfucking Rathbone