[Work in progress]
Film:
1 The Visitor
2 Frost/Nixon
3 In Bruges
4 Il y a longtemps que je t'aime/I've Loved You So Long
5 Hunger
6 Wall-E
Actor:
Michael Fassbinder (Hunger)
Actress:
Kristen Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long)
Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger (Dark Knight)
Supporting Actress:
Anne-Marie Duff (Garage)
Director:
Steve McQueen (Hunger)
Script:
Martin McDonagh - In Bruges
Animation:
Wall-E
TV:
Osama bin Everywhere (Channel 4)
LP:
(Asa - Asa)
(Givin' It Up - George Benson & Al Jarreau)
Single:
Beggin' - Madcon (Asa - Jailer, Portishead - The Rip)
Gig:
Schlomo & various guests [Jarvis Cocker, Cleveland Watkiss et al] (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank)
Book:
(The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon)
Art exhibition:
Francis Bacon (Tate Britain)
Play:
Brendan at the Chelsea (Lyric)
Sports event:
Saracens vs Newcastle Falcons
(Snatches of the Olympic action glimpsed in and around Bayonne)
Website:
http://www.foundmagazine.com
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10 comments:
As I cannot comment on a number of these I am giving myself a few choices (work in progress):
Best album:
Fleet Foxes by The Fleet Foxes
The Mande Variations: Toumani Diabate
Franco & Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz: Francophonic Volume 1
Sport:
Federer v Nadal - Wimbledon Final. Slightly spoiled by Sue Barker's appalling on-court, post-match interview technique. The brilliance of the match said it all.The sport itself is in a golden age with the emergence of Murray and Djokovic too.
Taylor vs Van Barneveld - PDC Darts Final. Not because it was close - it wasn't. But because of the brilliance of the playing.
Usain Bolt in the Olympic 100m final. It was great to see someone win this who seemed like a natural runner rather than an over-muscled, pumped-up machine.I just hope he is for real.
Book:
Austerity Britain: David Kynaston. The first in a series that will end in 1979. This is the first - covering 45-51. With observations and anecdotes (particularly from 'Mass Observation') that have probably not been read before.
The Economist Book of Obituaries. Readers of said magazine will know what gems these are. Anything from obituaries of japanese soldiers found in Far East jungles in the 1970's who thought the war was still on, to the self-proclaimed 'king of the gypsies' in Romania to Eric Newby. A joy. And thank you to the very lovely person who bought it for me.
Concert:
The Five Peace Band. Not for McClaughlin or Corea who were well below par but for Kenny Garrett, Christian Mc Bride and, in particular Vinnie Collatta.
Best website:
www.b3ta.com - I laugh relentlessly when I visit this site.
Best TV:
BBC 4 is consistently brilliant. So hard to pull out anything specific but I did enjoy Andrew Graham-Dixon once again.
Completely forgot to add the Nitin Sawhney album 'London Undersound' tothe best of.
Fleet Foxes I've yet to get to grips with. Franco & Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz sounds intriguing. I'll have to check that one out. Frankly I'm struggling to find an album to nominate as I've been listening to lots of old stuff and lots of single tracks. Such is the iTunes age!
Sport I opted for an event I was actually at and enjoying with the Enfants Terribles.I wish I had given that Wimbledon Final the attention it deserved (also I was rooting for Federer). I totally agree men's tennis is in a golden age. The Olympics I caught in exciting fragments when in France, glimpsed in cafes and so on, without sound, all the more precious for that snatched nature.
Your reading never fails to impress and interest me, a fascinating rich mix.
Where did you catch the Five Peace Band?
b3ta.com I agree is an entertaining, creative phenomenon. If you're adding that category, I'll opt for Found Magazine's website at www.foundmagazine.com - intriguing scraps of found ephemera.
Resolution. Go and see some films in 2009. I see Sunday's Observer had a whole list of 2009 British releases and I think that will be a good place to start. Are we entering a golden age for UK cinema? Just as France's film industry seems to have disappeared?
Well my colleagues at Film4 for one have been having a great year - see http://aarkangel.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/global-warming/
On the plus side for France, I really did like the Kristin-Scott Thomas film above (Il y a longtemps que je vous aime)
Oops... ...que je t'aime
Presume therefore she speaks french in it?
I think you may have a missing comment of mine somewhere in your inbox. A long rant I recall writing a week or so ago.
PP, she does speak in French with a slight Brit accent a la Jane Birkin - the character conveniently has an English mother.
I've published everything that came in from you - is it not above here? what was it about?
P.S. PP - is the missing rant on Simple Pleasues part 4 e.g. http://aarkangel.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/walking-in-someone-elses-shoes/ ? (not a rant as such but substantial)
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