A film I will be going to see...

[GrumpyGregry]

... if anywhere around here ever shows it, purely on the basis of its splendid 5 star review in the FT

Swandown

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Anything with Alan Moore in it can't be bad... I'll keep an eye out for that.

 

[ASC1951]

It doesn't feature on IMDb yet, although the FT is usually reliable - it gave Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter zero, only because it couldn't give it a negative score. OTOH I see that the reviewer makes an approving reference to the uber-pretentious Peter Greenaway.....

 

[GrumpyGregry]

It doesn't feature on IMDb yet, although the FT is usually reliable - it gave Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter zero, only because it couldn't give it a negative score. OTOH I see that the reviewer makes an approving reference to the uber-pretentious Peter Greenaway.....

but to the Greenaway pre-pretentious era surely?

 

[ASC1951]

but to the Greenaway pre-pretentious era surely?

I wasn't aware that there is such an era. I've only seen The Draughtsman's Contract, The Belly of the Architect, The Cook etc and Prospero's Books. TDC was a fine film, but you could see where he was heading; and by Prospero's Books he is turning out total tosh. Mind you, I might be unduly influenced by his collaboration with Michael Nyman, a man I've always seen as the poseur's poseur.

 

[The Jogger]

http://m.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jul/19/swandown-review?cat=film&type=article


Accessible, reminds me a touch of the series in which a couple go around Britain in a barge. Here it is

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7630403/Timothy-Spall-goes-down-to-the-sea.html

 

[ASC1951]

Yes, I like Timothy Spall's stuff. Despite turning out for several of Stephen Poliakoff's offerings, he does show that not all top quality actors are luvvies.