Knees up Harry Brown
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| 16th April 2011 Shrapnel's Cuttoff listen | |
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| 19th March 2011 Screen Nostalgia listen | |
| 12th March 2011 Screen Shambles listen | |
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Screen Shrapnel // 0800-0900 14.11.09
broken britain, corrupted youths and haunted souls
Cinema got dark this week. First up, Harry Brown, a Tory-blue tinted vision of 21st century London, where nihilistic teens terrorise residents of a dilapidated council estate. Only Old Testament-style fire and brimstone can cleanse this modern day Sodom and Gomorrah, apparently; step up Michael Caine as the titular gun-tooting pensioner to blow the hoodies’ bloody heads off. Similar neighborhood disturbances abound in a monochrome turn-of-the-19th century Germany in Palme d’Or winning The White Ribbon. But this is a Michael Haneke film; there are no easy answers to be found in this director’s twisted cinematic worlds. There are, however, in Cold Soul, a Kaufman-lite universe where damaged souls are removed as easily as genital warts and traded like Panini stickers. (We didn’t even get a chance to see Armageddon in world demolition expert Roland Emmerich’s 2012)
Who better to lead you through this cradle of filth than three men who make Larry David look like Claudia Winkleman: Nicholas Green, Jamie Dunn, and a very tired, very grumpy, (and very late) Graham Fulton. Individually they are cinephilic curmudgeons. But together they are the golden triumvirate that is, Screen Shrapnel.
Go on, have a listen; you’ll only be slightly disappointed.
Posted at 21:06, 16th November 2009
playlist
| Neighborhood Threat | |
| Iggy Pop | RCA |
| Michael (I-will-take-any-role-if-the-money’s-right) Caine is back on his old stomping ground of London’s east-end doing his best Jack Carter impression in Harry Brown: what Richard Littlejohn's wet dream are made of | |
| Can't Tek No More | |
| Dizzee Rascal | Dirtee Stank |
| Michael (the conscience of Europe) Haneke serves up a chilly dish of guilt, repression and resentment in a rural Germany at the dawn of the First World War | |
| MacGyver | |
| Million Dead | Xtra Mile |
| Screen Shrapnel's pick of 2002 | |
| Paul (when you need an uptight, intellectual, misanthropist-type) Giamatti stars as Paul Giamatti, an uptight, intellectual misanthropist, in Cold Souls: essentially a collage of scenes paying homage to Charlie Kaufman, minus the wit and invention | |
| Screen Shrapnel's pick of 2003 | |
| Comfortably Numb | |
| Pink Floyd | EMI |