If you are like me (OK, you’re not, I know) there will be about 500 films that come out every year that you actively avoid going to see. Unfortunately, some of these are literally unavoidable, especially if you’re trapped on a plane crossing the Atlantic and they show the thing on those screens you [...]
Archive for the ‘The Movie and the Beverage’ Category
9 Jun
What To Drink While Watching “Marley & Me”
1 May
What to Drink While Watching Lost In Translation, Les 400 Coups and Imitation of Life
Heen says:
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You shouldn’t watch one film straight after another. Consequences: You will mix up the characters, the plot, everything.
I was feeling a bit off colour the other day and I decided to indulge in a triple movie viewing binge, starting late afternoon and finishing late evening. [...]
30 Mar
What To Drink While Watching “Le Signe du Lion”
Heen and I have been watching a handful of old films by Eric Rohmer. You may recall his review of Suzanne’s Career, a film that we disagreed about. However, the one we watched today, Le Signe du Lion, united us once more. We both agree it’s the most “unRohmeresque” film we’ve ever seen, and neither [...]
20 Mar
What to Drink While Watching “La Carrière de Suzanne”
Suzanne is dumpy and frumpy. Therefore she is the perfect character for this film, made in 1963 by the great Eric Rohmer. Why is she perfect? Because it intrigues the viewer what Guillaume and Bertrand see in her. The former becomes her official boyfriend, making the latter jealous, even though he pretends not to be. [...]
6 Mar
What To Drink While Watching Slumdog Millionaire
A few months ago, Heen posted a blog about a séance he attended in which he managed to communicate with our ex-neighbour’s dog. It’s here, in case you overlooked it: http://zaragozatwins.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/the-curious-incident-of-the-president-in-the-night-time What he didn’t mention was that a few months earlier, I went to see the same medium, David Franco. I didn’t go for any [...]
16 Feb
What to Drink While Watching “L’Age d’Or”
An exhausted, injured soldier explains why he isn’t up to facing the enemy: “The rest of you, you have accordions, hippos, keys and hooks…” and his squadron leader accuses him of being a homosexual.
A girl lasciviously sucks the foot of a statue in the garden and says, “Isn’t it great to have killed our children?” [...]
30 Jan
What to Drink While Watching “Her Other Rancid Thoughts”
Heen says:
This is perhaps the least well-known of the movies that I’ve reviewed here. I borrowed it off a friend (thanks, Simon) who manages to get hold of films that never make the big time thanks to his contacts in Berlin, which seems to be the epicentre of the bizarre film world.
Please don’t feel embarrassed [...]
6 Jan
What Not To Read While Watching “Stranger Than Fiction”
Heen says:
I think it was a friend of my father’s who once said to me, “I don’t watch films any more because I always mix them up with films I’ve seen before.” He didn’t mean that he mixed them up afterwards in his memory, he meant that while he watched them, his previous film memories [...]
6 Dec
What to Drink While Watching “My Blueberry Nights”
Sheen says:
Wong Kar-Wai made “In The Mood For Love” specially for me in 2000. He followed that up with “2046”, specially made for Heen in 2004. These two films need to be watched together, with a short break for lunch or something. He made a couple of films in between that I’ve never seen, but [...]
23 Nov
What to Drink While Watching “Jules et Jim”
Heen says: This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for some time. When I wrote about the “Making Of” of films, I mentioned “La nuit américain” by Truffaut and that got me thinking about “Jules et Jim”, one of those films that always gets a mention in weighty discussions about how film reflects [...]
