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quotidian comedy and thematic tragedy playing out on-the-ground in fought-over lands. 17. the assassin (taiwan, hou hsiao-hsien) Hou’s long-awaited wuxia movie goes light ... picture becomes a study of temporality; about the beauty of childhood innocence and innocence lost. Even happy memories, when recalled years down the line, feel sad; and this all-timer

there’s no glittering Las Vegas castles or VIP high-roller tournaments, just two lost figures, haunting a desolate procession of bingo halls, dog tracks, and low-wattage casinos. phoenix ... communicate a new-agey spirituality— has long played to plaudits at Cannes, but oft landed in an uneasy middle-ground too sentimental for cinephiles, but too abstruse for regular

Nankervis informed the crowd is still gigging around the country, "on land and sea" — sings A Little Ray Of Sunshine to honour Sunbury Festival, another of this year ... those of us who never knew the story of Thunderbirds saxophonist/flautist Henri Bource, who lost his leg after a shark attack during which he bravely instructed his diving companions

though, I think those tribes may have been on to something: there is something lost at gigs nowadays. The magic in the room. It’s somehow less tangible the more ... breaking opera, slaughter an insurmountable number of men, women and children on a distant land before bringing home their entire cultural identity to sell to the highest bidder. Yes, there

that room and make music." The band started recording the day after they landed and Rogers enlightens, "You know, traditionally, we went out and smashed it a bit when ... times: whatever you're up to or just, kind of, if you're lost in it all and not knowing how to behave... You come across other bands

conversational, comic narrator; who, unlike Robert Redford’s solitary, silent sailor in All Is Lost , won’t shut up. With his comic banter often centred on the fact that — like ... space-station toilet. He works out how to extend the battery life of the land rover, how to turn thermoelectric radioisotopes into a makeshift heater. He duct tapes the shit

Killing Time , rejoicing his connection for the land in Americana-driven Runaway (despite his Canadian roots) and pining for his lost heart in Lover Come Back . If I Should