Un giorno, tutti potremo avere una seconda possibilità, un ipotetico "e se,e proprio qui inizia la storia di un ragazzo, che, risvegliatosi nel deserto del Nevada , senza nulla, scopre... More > come anche in mezzo a molte difficoltà, se lo si vuole veramente, si più fare di tutto, senza lasciarsi andare a scelte sbagliate.
Tutto questo sotto forma di American Style Novel , o se vogliamo dire, un film, quasi una sceneggiatura, infarcita di citazioni e riferimenti a molte opere cinematografiche , certe ovvie "Ritorno al Futuro, Sergio Leone" e altre che, solo chi adora profondamente il cinema, potrà capire.< Less
It starts in 2000 with a celebrity gala screening of 'Almost Famous'. It ends in 2004 with a celebrity gala screening of 'I Heart Huckabees'. In between are two-hundred-and-thirty-odd feature films,... More > shorts programmes and interviews. And SPANK THE MONKEY was there for all of them. Pray for him, and for his bank account. SPANK'S LFF DIARIES VOLUME TWO is the second published collection of London Film Festival reviews from his popular and frequently spammed website. You'll see the first public appearances of your favourite characters: The Belated Birthday Girl, Suzanne Vega Fanclub and Low Fat Morrissey. You'll marvel at how, during the five year span of the book, the careers of directors both rise (Takashi Miike) and plummet (Lukas Moodysson). And you'll discover which film was so catastrophically bad that an audience member sitting in front of Spank 'gave up watching the film and started reading his LFF programme instead, using the screen as a light'. Enjoy.< Less
It starts in 2000 with a celebrity gala screening of 'Almost Famous'. It ends in 2004 with a celebrity gala screening of 'I Heart Huckabees'. In between are two-hundred-and-thirty-odd feature films,... More > shorts programmes and interviews. And SPANK THE MONKEY was there for all of them. Pray for him, and for his bank account. SPANK'S LFF DIARIES VOLUME TWO is the second published collection of London Film Festival reviews from his popular and frequently spammed website. You'll see the first public appearances of your favourite characters: The Belated Birthday Girl, Suzanne Vega Fanclub and Low Fat Morrissey. You'll marvel at how, during the five year span of the book, the careers of directors both rise (Takashi Miike) and plummet (Lukas Moodysson). And you'll discover which film was so catastrophically bad that an audience member sitting in front of Spank 'gave up watching the film and started reading his LFF programme instead, using the screen as a light'. Enjoy.< Less
