Love Story
Posted 3:53am Monday 5th September 2011
Directed by Florian Habicht, (4.5/5). There’s a point in Florian Habicht’s Love Story where he faces the camera and confesses ‘I fall in love so often.’ Not quite explaining, not quite apologising. ‘It happens all the time,’ he sighs. The fatalism is Read more...
Love Story
Posted 3:51am Monday 5th September 2011
Directed by Florian Habicht, (4.5/5). There’s a point in Florian Habicht’s Love Story where he faces the camera and confesses ‘I fall in love so often.’ Not quite explaining, not quite apologising. ‘It happens all the time,’ he sighs. The fatalism is no Read more...
They are a pop band
Posted 3:47am Monday 11th April 2011
The fourth Lines of Flight show was the last event of the Fringe Festival. The avant-garde hate it when you’re early, so I arrived during Pumice’s set, which was tinkly and disjointed, then paid vague attention to Rosy Parlane’s laptop soundscapes, while engaged in the more urgent task of getting Read more...
Dinner with Thomas
Posted 4:35am Monday 20th September 2010
The car swings heavily around the corners. I can feel its weight with every turn, migrating up through the steering wheel, a sense of connection that’s lost in newer, smoother cars. Each curve feels like a lift settling to the ground, but pulled sideways, towards the mountain on one side, or the Read more...
Inherent Vice
Posted 4:10am Monday 23rd August 2010
Author: Thomas Pynchon (4/5) When you are famous for writing difficult books, there will always be a handful of people who are going to be put off when you write a noir detective thriller, set in seventies surf-hippie Los Angeles (where, incidentally, Pynchon – age Read more...
3 minutes* (*More or less.)
Posted 10:24pm Sunday 18th July 2010
People used to have attention spans – it’s the only possible explanation for opera, Charles Dickens, and cricket. Nowdays, I can’t imagine sitting through five hours of Wagner, even with chemical aid. Most of my friends watch a movie in two or three sittings, or can’t be bothered at all – they Read more...
The Rehearsal
Posted 7:47pm Sunday 11th July 2010
Author: Elanor Catton (4.5) Victoria University Press does a strong line in novels written by photogenic dark-haired young women with fringes. The majority are graduates of Victoria University's creative writing program. I struggle to tell a lot of these woman apart, and Read more...
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Posted 2:59am Tuesday 18th May 2010
Publisher: Abacus Rating: 4.1/5 The Wasp Factory is the kind of book that publishers love. It's weird enough to be lumped into that bracket of ‘Modern Classics’, along with books like The Crying of Lot 49, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, and other oblique, semi-mysterious titles Read more...