The upcoming film Hippie Hippie Shake, adapted from Neville’s memoir, focuses on London Oz from its inception (Neville and Sharp’s arrival in London) through the obscenity trial. I saw the film at a work-in-progress preview, so it wouldn’t be fair to give a definitive review on it at this point, but I’d like to at least give some impressions of the film as it is now.
Cute and sweet tale of a shy young Englishman crossing into the neighboring magical world to find a fallen star (Claire Danes) in order to win a girl, a quest complicated by the aging witches who need the star’s blood to regain their youth and the princes who must find a medallion the star has [...]
The main character finds it difficult to sleep after his girlfriend leaves him, so he gets a night job at a convenience store to fill up the extra hours. He notes that different people have different ways of passing the time when there’s little to do–his way actually involves stopping the clock, freezing time, which [...]
During the first half of this film about a fictionalized Jane Austen’s love life, I wrote a lot of notes faulting Anne Hathaway’s performance, clumsy editing, muddy and inconsistent sound, and other issues that suggested the film wasn’t quite ready for release. By the end, most of these issues had either gone away or I [...]
In this adaptation from Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando a nobleman born in the 16th century whose life encompasses the following three centuries. And, oh yeah, sometime in the mid-19th century, he becomes a woman. These two things are never explained. And the book works, but the movie works less well, largely because director Sally Potter [...]
