I luff you.

EXT. DOCK – NEW YORK CITY – NIGHT
ALVIN SINGER holds ANNIE HALL’s arms as they stand, almost in silhouette.
ANNIE
You know what? You know, I like you, I really…I really do like you.
ALVY
Yeh but do you love me?
ANNIE
Do I love you?
ALVY
That’s the key question.
ANNIE
Yeah, you know?
ALVY
I know you’ve only known me a short while.
ANNIE
Well, I think…I think that’s sort of…Yeah, yeah…Yeah. Do you love me?
ALVY
I – uh, love is, uh, too weak a word for the way I feel…I love you. I luuurve you, you know I loave you, I luff you, with two F’s. Yes I-I have to invent…Of course I love you.
ANNIE
Yeah.
ALVY
Don’t you think I do?
ANNIE
I don’t know.
Alvy puts his arms around Annie’s neck. They kiss.

A quick celebration.

How I love Björk. Especially film Björk. And now is (supposedly) teaming with one of the most interesting directors about Michel Gondry for a return to cinema…of some form anyway. Who cares how it will be delivered?! Together they have created some truly great music-videos (see my personal favourite) and any collaboration between them should be celebrated in my world. Hoorah!

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The trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake…how is that?

“Well, when my mother was an intern, she used to work late through the night… sleep through the day. So the only time we’d ever get to talk about anything is when she’d get home. So what I… I used to do, I used to lie in my bed and try to stay awake as long as I could, but it never worked ’cause… ’cause the harder I’d try, the faster I’d fall asleep…The only thing is sometimes she’d come home early, I’d pretend to be asleep…She’d stand in the doorway looking at me. I’d just keep my eyes shut. And I knew she just wanted to find out about my day, if she came home early, just to talk to me. I still wouldn’t move, I’d still pretend to just be asleep. I don’t know why I did that.”


Happy Mother’s Day.

A quick reaction to Alice In Wonderland.

Mechanical. Beautiful. Boring. Indulgent. Clunky. These all sum up my feelings about Tim Burton‘s Alice In Wonderland. It ticks all the criteria of Burton and popular fantasy films without ever expressing much enthusiasm. It would seem that Burton fell into the mindset of Danny Elfman and felt filmmaking was best done on autopilot. This is a film that should be rich with wonder yet seems to aim for mild admiration. And, at least, this much is achieved. Disappointing.