![Wings (1927) with live score by Bl!ndman [drums] at the Muziekgebouw](https://amsterdamfilm.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wingssight.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Wings (1927) with live score by Bl!ndman [drums] at the Muziekgebouw")
Seeing a silent film with live music is a special kind of experience. One tends to go out of an impulse to indulge one’s nostalgia, but walks away impressed with the film’s enduring ability to captivate the emotions and the intellect. Wings was the third silent film we’ve seen in Amsterdam, and like the two films before, it … Continue reading
On watching To Be Takei one gets the impression that George Takei embodies much of what made Star Trek great. At its best, the franchise used sci-fi conventions to explore philosophical questions. It was driven by the optimistic view that humanity’s future lies in a more tolerant society, one in which people tend to work for the betterment of themselves and humanity … Continue reading
The Newsroom — Off the Record, directed by Mikala Krogh, provides a fly on the wall account of the seemingly irreversible decline of one of Denmark’s largest and most controversial newspapers: Ekstra Bladet. A classic tabloid, Ekstra Bladet specialises in muckraking journalism, political scandals, sex, crime and sport. At home in the same building as the Danish … Continue reading
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. Whiplash resembles nothing so much as the famous first half of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, but instead of the U.S. Marine Corps training centre, its setting is the fictional Shaffer Conservatory of Music in New York City. One might assume the rehearsal room to be a more sedate setting than the barracks, and one would … Continue reading
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