FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Keep this in mind for your Christmas stockings … 8/10 When it was released earlier this year I resisted ‘Sunday At Devil Dirt’, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan’s well-received, rather tongue-in-cheek take on Americana, their second full-length collaboration. It seemed to me too studied, too contrived somehow, [...]
EP Review: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-country, Alt-rock, Alternative, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock
Tags:Acoustic·Americana·baritone·Christmas·country·Folk·Isobel Campbell·Mark Lanegan·pedal steel·Wild West
Un Conte de Noel (A Christmas Tale) – Arnaud Desplechin
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Film
“Christmas time … mistletoe and [lots and lots of] wine” 7/10 I’m not going to try and summarize the tangled human relationships that characterise Arnaud Desplechin’s striking ‘Un Conte de Noel’ (A Christmas Tale), so fiddly and time-consuming that it would be. The premise is an extended and admirably dysfunctional family gathering for Christmas in [...]
Tags:alcaholism·Anne Consigny·Arnaud Desplechin·Catherine Deneuve·Chiara Mastroianni·Christmas·Emmanuelle Devos·family·French cinema·Jean-Paul Roussillon·Mathieu Amalric·Northern France·realism