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August 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Isn’t Music The Best? Oh, And How Good Are Rhetorical Questions By The Way?

Hey there, and guess what? I found – on vinyl! – (I always hear that in the voice from Half Baked when they say, “on weed!”) the score to Twin Peaks. I consider this a holy grail, basically. I am so thrilled to have this. I didn’t have time to sit and listen to it […]
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April 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Watching Twin Peaks 30 Years Later

Laura Palmer’s mother doesn’t know what time the last phone call came – the logs get cut and the steam piles up. Those lush piano chords sit under the scenes, soft-pedalled playing that enriches the melodrama, pretty much tells us to love the slow-burn; small-town grinding to a halt. Lara Flynn Boyle was only better […]
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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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