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Listed below are comments made by DrShipman between Saturday, 28th February 2009 and Friday, 6th November 2009.

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The future of cinema: This Is It 2:18pm on 06 Nov 2009 Why do concerts shown at cinemas not count as films? As brotherjosephus said, they're essentially documentaries.

I'd love to see more concert films get releases in the cinema - especially Springsteen's gig at the Hammersmith Odeon in '75.
Trailer Treachery 5:34pm on 21 Oct 2009 The best example I can think of for a film that's completely different to the trailer is Welles's F For Fake.

And I agree with KubrickandScott that the Eyes Wide Shut trailer is there to purposely mislead to the audience (in a good way).

Cloverfield disappointed me after its promise - I didn't expect to find the characters so annoying based on it.
In the Realm of James Ferman 5:44pm on 25 Aug 2009 Mark Kermode: Stealing his ideas for podcasts from Sight & Sound magazine since...a certain amount of time ago.
The Culture Show: Screening Room 1:04pm on 06 Aug 2009 ...

Rushmore and The 400 Blows, also. I can't relate to any of the three, but those are perhaps the best school films that I've seen.
The Culture Show: Screening Room 12:56pm on 06 Aug 2009 The one that springs to mind is Vigo's Zéro de conduite.
Moon Movies 6:53pm on 19 Jul 2009 It's nice to see Moon compared with Solaris and 2001 - two of my favourite films. It seems to be well worth a watch...

Just oe note from your video, regarding 2001:

"...mankind uncovers an intergalactic alarm system buried ... by our alien forefathers."

*spoilers*
Is this actually the case? It is my opinion that the discovery on the moon was in fact faked.
Another quiet spell with the laptop and you 6:17pm on 07 Mar 2009 Very good of you to take the time to reply to comments.

I'm surprised though that there hasn't been a video today, seeing as it is the 10th anniversary of the death of the greatest director of all time.
Reviews Bonanza: Anvil, Gran Torino and Che Part Two 6:43pm on 02 Mar 2009 I was suprised by how different Che: Part Two was to Part One. Both films together probably make my film of the year as it's difficult to separate them. Benicio Del Toro's performance (which I thought was in the top two of the year along with Mickey Rourke) is certainly the best aspect of the film, but Che was also very well directed, Soderbergh treating the audience with intelligence instead of having to introduce Che Guevara.
5 Live - The Oscars 2009 7:48pm on 28 Feb 2009 Yet again the members of the Academy prove that they are incompentent of picking the deserving winner for the main categories. Though Slumdog Millionaire is probably the best of the Best Picture nominations (I'm yet to see Frost/Nixon), it isn't worthy of the 8 Oscars it won. Best Director yes, but there were several films which I thought were more deserving of Best Picture. The Academy seem more interested in making sure they are viewed in a positive light and being politically correct by the public than making the right decision. For example, the Best Original Song award should have gone to Sir Bruce Springsteen yet he wasn't even nominated. Instead they gave an extra nod to Slumdog Millionaire, most likely for political correctness.

In my opinion, Sean Penn only won (undeservedly, though it was a very good performance) to make up for their terrible mistake of not awarding Brokeback Mountain Best Picture for the 2005 Oscars.

Only a handful of times since the 70's has the right choice been made for the Best Motion Picture of the Year - Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Return of the King and possibly Rain Man (though being a teenager I don't know how well some of the films which I feel should have won were received at the time). Personally I would like to see an overhaul/revamp of the Oscars so that the most deserving winners should be rewarded, rather than have voters who seemingly do not have enough interest in films to decide.

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