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February 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Eagles Fly Alone

Bernard Herrmann didn’t want to be a composer. He wanted to be a conductor. He wrote the scores for so many great films but if he had only created the strings for Psycho that would have been enough. He also wrote music for many other Hitchcock films and worked with other directors. His score for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann, Cape Fear, Citizen Kane, Eagles Fly Alone, Elmer Bernstein, Martin Scorsese, Poem, Poem: Eagles Fly Alone, Psycho, Robert Ne Niro, Taxi Driver, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo ·

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October 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Joker: Film

Joker Director: Todd Phillips Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Films/Join Effort/Bron Creative/Village Roadshow Pictures There’s very little to unpack about Joker – unless you’re fascinated by the idea that a potentially compelling mental-health/system’s broken/America’s burning riff  had to be hidden inside a comic book anti-hero/super-villain origin story. Anyone thinking that it’s a piece of Trojan Horse brilliance […]
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March 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Philip Matthews

Philip Matthews is a senior reporter with Fairfax Media in Christchurch and is a former film reviewer with the NZ Listener. He blogs about films at Second Sight and is on Twitter as @secondzeit. Here are Five Films That Have Stayed With Him… 1 – Solaris: This is such an intensely sorrowful film. If I was […]
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November 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Jon McLeary

Jon Mcleary is the creator of The Spines, check them out on Bandcamp. They will be playing two shows this coming weekend with Vorn and The Julie Lamb band as part of The Bungee Tour. He is also an artist, author of the novel Manslaughter and you can read his weekly War Stories here at Off The Tracks […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Apocalypse Now, Art, Dracula, Film Review, Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Jon McLeary, Frankenstein, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Movies, Painting, Seinfeld, Spines, Taxi Driver, The Concert For Bangladesh, The Ghost of Electricity, The Hobbit, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The King Of Comedy, The Office, The Spines, War Stories ·

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July 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Alan Stuart

Alan Stuart is a sometime musician, writer and critic who lives in Wellington with his wife, Pat, and George the Wonder Dog. His ramblings and miscellanies may be found at Wise Blood. Here are five films that have stayed with him… 1 – The Last Sunset: There are a bunch of strange ideas going on […]
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