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January 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Marriage Story: Film

Marriage Story Director: Noah Baumbach Heyday Films / Netflix Marriage Story is, to date, Noah Baumbach’s masterpiece. It’s a fairly immaculate filmography so far, but where sometimes the privilege of the characters has maybe alienated members of the audience, (whether The Squid and The Whale’s intellectual superiority or the world of wealth in The Meyerowitz […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adam Driver, Alan Alda, Divorce, Film, Film Review, Heyday Films, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julie Hegarty, Laura Dern, Marriage, Marriage Story, Marriage Story: Film, Movie, Netflix, Noah Baumbach, Randy Newman, Scarlett Johansson, Stephen Sondheim, Woody Allen, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: the reviews of the reviews of the new tool album have not been very clear

as we bury ourselves deep in the machine searching for meaning, silently screaming you could remember that woody allen has done more good work than most. and that being a decent person was never a condition, not the requirement – always just a bonus. our own darkest moments are private thoughts, the scrutiny of others […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Dave Chappelle, fear inoculum, Poem, Poem: the reviews of the reviews of the new tool album have not been very clear, the reviews of the reviews of the new tool album have not been very clear, Tool, Woody Allen ·

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August 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 258

V/A, Radio Days: Selections From The Original Soundtrack of The Motion Picture (1987) When I worked in a video store – “video” very much too, DVDs were only just coming in then, we had about 10 on the new release shelf, how archaic – it was the late 1990s. And I set about like a […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1987, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Frenesi, LP, Radio Days, Record, Selections From The Original Soundtrack of The Motion Picture, Soundtrack, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 258, Vinyl, Woody Allen ·

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June 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: On Reading. And Writing.

Reading Charles Bukowski and Stephen King, that was the thing. Those were the guys.  And yet I hardly ever think of them now.  Certainly don’t read them.  It’s not that I hate their words or worlds or works,  I’ve just moved on. That’s what is supposed to happen.  That’s what you’re supposed to do.   I’m looking – without actively looking – for the next thing to   get hooked on, to find and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Charles Bukowski, On Reading, On Reading. And Writing, On Writing, Poem, Poem: On Reading. And Writing., Stephen King, Woody Allen ·

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November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Comedy on Vinyl: Stand-Up Comedy LPs

There was a time when I would listen to Bill Cosby records. But as I told you all recently that time is most certainly over. I still retain some affection for the idea of a comedy record – and by that I mean an LP, a stand-up comedy show pressed to vinyl. There’s something wonderfully indulgent about […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bill Cosby, Bob Newhart, Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, Comedian, Comedians, Comedy, Comedy on Vinyl, Comedy on Vinyl: Stand-Up Comedy LPs, Jim Gaffigan, Live, LP, Peter Sellers, Record, Richard Pryor, Sarah Silverman, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, Stand-Up Comedy LPs, Steve Martin, Vinyl, Woody Allen ·

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October 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Always Starting, Never Ending

jesus, FUCK! – Alan Bennett is 83. I better get watching – and reading – his books, his TV, his films, scripts… Shit! There’s too much for me. (I’ve read some, seen some – but there’s much to revisit, and so much to try, to find, to hunt, to line up). A name gets mentioned, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Actors, Alan Bennett, Always Starting, Always Starting Never Ending, Art, artists, Bob Dylan, Books, Clive James, Comedians, Comics, Film, Filmmakers, Garry Trudeau, Graphic Novels, Herbie Hancock, Joan Didion, Musicians, Never Ending, Norman Lear, Patti Smith, Peter Cook, Plays, Poem, Robert Crumb, Roger McGough, Theatre, Tracey Ullman, TV, Tyshawn Sorey, Woody Allen, Writers ·

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February 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Adam Fresco

Adam Fresco works in film, theatre and TV as a writer, director, producer, performer and professional acting coach. Born in London, he arrived in Auckland a decade ago, having worked in professional British Theatre and TV. The Director of DramaTrain.co.nz and Producer for Imagine Studios NZ, Adam is a self-confessed film nut. He regularly reviews […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 8 1/2, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Acting Coach, Adam Fresco, All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Braindead, Brazil, Bruce Campbell, Cabaret, Casino, Citizen Kane, Cloud Atlas, Dancer In The Dark, David Lynch, Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead, Die Hard, Director, DramaTrain, DramaTrain.co.nz, Duck Soup, Elephant Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, F.W. Murnau, Film Review, Films, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Adam Fresco, Flicks.co.nz, Freaks, Hard Boiled, In Bruges, Inception, Jaws, John Carpenter, John Woo, Lenny, Leon, Lesson of the Evil, Luc Besson, Marathon Man, Monty Python, Movie, Movie Review, Mulholland Drive, Oldboy, Pink Floyd The Wall, Planet FM's Kick Arts, Producer, Quentin Tarantino, Requiem For A Dream, Sam Raimi, Seven Psychopaths, Sleeper, Special Guest, Spellbound, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Terry Gilliam, The Battle of Brazil, The Dead Zone, The Devil's Rejects, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, The French Connection, The Hitcher, The King of New York, The Life of Brian, The Lobster, The Thing, The Wizard of Oz, This Is Spinal Tap, Throne of Blood, Velvet Goldmine, Weekend, Wild at Heart, Wolf Creek 2, Woody Allen, Writer ·

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December 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Jesse Eisenberg: Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories

Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories Jesse Eisenberg Grove Press Jesse Eisenberg has built up an impressive list of film credits now – a couple of breakout moments and he’s more than just a quirky, indie actor. Add to it his sideline in writing (plays, humour-essays and columns) and now this book of short […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories, Columns, David Duchovny, Essays, Humour, Jesse Eisenberg, New Yorker, Short Stories, Viggo Mortensen, Woody Allen ·

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August 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Irrational Man: Film

Irrational Man Director: Woody Allen Gravier Productions Woody Allen is in a holding pattern. He knows it – he’s been there before, will be there again (may never get out of this current one actually). He’s recently had yet another late comeback with Midnight In Paris doing the box-office business and Blue Jasmine picking up […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Blue Jasmine, Cassandra's Dream, Emma Stone, Film, Film Review, Irrational Man, Irrational Man: Film, Joaquin Phoenix, Magic in the Moonlight, Match Point, Midnight In Paris, Movie, Movie Review, Parker Posey, Woody Allen ·

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August 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 9 – Django Reinhardt

He died right around the time my mother was born – and I read all about him in a guitar magazine when I was 13. He was my hero. I bought tapes and listened to anything I could find – it was Django Reinhardt in between Beastie Boys and Deep Purple and Dire Straits and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Best Guitar, Django Reinhardt, Facebook, Guitar, Jazz, Phantom Billstickers, Stephane Grappelli, The Best Guitarist In The World, The Best Guitarist in The World # 9, The Best Guitarist in The World: # 9 – Django Reinhardt, Woody Allen ·

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September 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: #8 Tom Robbins

“’Magnificent!’ exclaimed John Paul Ziller, pronouncing the word like he was a Kansas City intellectual describing the Louvre to his sister-in-law who’d called to tell him to bring his vacation slides over some other night because she’d burned the spaghetti sauce and the baby had colic”. You can’t always be sure if Tom Robbins is […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Another Roadside Attraction, Author, Authors I Admire, Authors I Admire # 8, Authors I Admire: # 8 Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Fiction, Humour, Kinky Friedman, Kurt Vonnegut, Non-FIction, Phantom Billstickers, PJ O'Rourke, Richard Brautigan, Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins, Woody Allen, Writing ·

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September 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Magic in the Moonlight: Film

Magic in the Moonlight Director: Woody Allen Dippermouth/Gravier Productions Magic in the Moonlight is a bit of a turkey, it’s to Blue Jasmine as Scoop was to Match Point; in fact it’s almost just Scoop rewritten/restaged for the crowd that loved Midnight In Paris – that extra crowd of fair-weather fans. And with the jokes […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Allen, Blue Jasmine, Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Film, Film Review, Magic in the Moonlight, Match Point, Midnight In Paris, Scoop, Whatever Works, Woody, Woody Allen ·
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