Archive for August, 2007

Stardusty

She Who Must Be Obeyed (remember the wonderful Rumpole of the Bailey?) and I went to see the movie Stardust a couple of weeks ago, and I didn’t think I was going to like it, but I actually sorta kinda did. I didn’t love it, as in “O My Gawd! I’ve, like, seen it seventeen [...]

Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007

I’ve left off writing about Ingmar Bergman’s death for a week now. I kind of wanted to see how things would shake out in the press, and I guess it’s happened by now. We’ve seen both pans and praise, retrenchment and reassessment, and I’ll stop with the alliteration now, but the responses have run the [...]