Blackbird (Middle-class Eastern seaboarders, including my angel Susan Sarandon, discuss and practice euthanasia. I am not persuaded). Photograph (Wandering unresolved non-love story in Mumbai). Bait (Travails of Cornish fishermen; almost comical chain of technical errors by student film-makers). Little Women (Beautifully shot, beautifully acted but somehow hollow; "self conscious" period costumery).
So thanks for Parasite (Hated by the US president. South Korean blackest of black comedy with serious points to make. See pic.). The Personal History of David Copperfield (Capturing the essence of Dickens but without any of his egregious faults.)
Rictangular Lenses, my current novel, now back on track. 48,336 words
The Platinum Breakfast had included scrambled eggs dotted with flakes of smoked salmon. Lindsay tried a forkful but pushed the tray away; fish seemed alien at half-past-seven in the morning. She drank only coffee and ignored the toast, the croissant and the boutique-ish jar of jam said to contain Tyne Valley strawberries. Were strawberries grown this far north? Were they yet another part of the region’s laborious struggle to find enterprises that would replace the metal-shaping that had once occupied half the workforce?
I suppose they can only show what is available.
ReplyDeleteSir Hugh: Borderlines is able to choose from thousands of movies from all over the world. Mostly art-house but also from those that will appear in conventional cinemas (eg, Little Women) and classics from the dim past (eg, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari). There are 280 screenings of about 90 movies in locations as far north as Oswestry and as far south as Ross-on-Wye. But mostly at the Courtyard in Hereford. I can see why the films I disliked were chosen but choice is, of course, subjective and for once it seems like pure bad luck. There was compensation last night when we saw Quentin Tarantino's latest: "Once upon a time in Hollywood". Anyway I have fifteen movies to go, one or two from Japan and Japan has never let us down.
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