Weekend Wonder

In the easybeat Friday company of the iPod Perv, I caught four films at the London Film Festival. 'Elizabethtown' was a bit too sentimental, but less so than normal Hollywood products. A wag could argue that the film was subliminally about brainwashing. 'Quo Vadis Baby?' was a cracking thriller/film noir from Italy, full of delicious film references ('Last Tango in Paris', 'M', etc) . I regret that we weren't able to stay for the Q & A with the director. 'Election' detailed the tradition of electing the leader of a Triad society in Hong-Kong. If only the Conservative Party leadership contest was handled the same way, with David Cameron bashing David Davis over the head repeatedly with a rock (note: if you are comparing candidates, remember, they are all still Tory). 'Ultranova' was a bleak Belgian gem (who remember's 'Man Bites Dog' from the early 1990s?), with Belgium cast as a grey, mindless, solitary expanse. Again, we missed the Q & A. No matter, we picked up some good CDs.

As for Saturday, it was a day of unbridled magic.

Listening to: Astor Piazzolla, Baden Powell (the late, great Brazilian Bossa Nova guitarist, NOT the founder of the Boy Scout movement) & avant garde British jazz from the 1960s.

Thinking of: someone