[film] The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Despite negative reviews, I rather liked this. It's beautifully filmed: lots of familiar London locations -- Battersea Power Station, the Albert Embankment, Leadenhall Market, Blackfriars Bridge, Southwark -- as well as surreal Imaginarium locales, each feeling as if it was based on the work of a different artist: Max Parrish, for one, and Edward Hopper maybe? And plenty of Tarot symbolism, not just the obvious one but the Fool and the Tower.

edit to add: also, Lily Cole pretty damn cool -- she is my calendar girl, on account of being Tim Walker's model/muse, and I'm pleased to see she can do more than just sit around looking surreal gorgeous.

The script is occasionally weak, but well-acted in an exaggerated theatrical mode that fit the story. ( spoiler )

Also very much liked the juxtaposition of the magical and the mundane -- jeering clubbers, refusing to be drawn in by magic and mystery.

I went expecting bleak and convoluted, and it is bleak. Happy endings not guaranteed, not for everyone.

Could have done without the fire alarm about 40 minutes in.

Sunday in Arkham

Arkham Horror
Originally uploaded by tamaranth

We spent the afternoon combatting Hastur with woolymonkey, musique_monkey and their spawn children. It was exhausting but the forces of light won in the end, by cheating. Here is the Mistress of the Game, reading page 23.

Twittering

• 19:45 @fabusina - re White Collar, OMG YES #

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter