The Darjeeling feeling
5/10
Wes Anderson’s offbeat style of filmmaking is definitely an acquired taste. Highly stylised - his saturated use of colour borders on the psychedelic - but with seemingly improvised dialogue, it is always hard to know how seriously to take his films. The Darjeeling Ltd epitomises this, combining the kind of tongue-in-cheek [...]
The Darjeeling Ltd - Wes Anderson
April 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Film
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Paul Theroux - The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
December 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Non-fiction
Doing the locomotive with Paul Theroux
8/10
People tend to either love or hate Paul Theroux, and although I can sympathise with his detractors I belong to the former camp. He is an uncompromising author that calls things as he sees them, refusing to romanticise or sensationalise his experiences. Although he comes across as a misanthropist, it [...]