On the plane over to Australia I watched ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ again. One of my favourite films:
Other recent viewing includes: Dirk Gently (S2), Ordeal by Innocence and SS-GB:
Tag Archives: cinema
Square Eyes
Arrested Development (2013)
Breathless (1960)
Hard Sun (2017)
Hard Sun (2017)
Man in High Castle (2016)
Man in High Castle (2016)
Modern Family – Normandy Phone Booth magic trick (2017)
The Flash (2017)
Twin Peaks (2017)
Warehouse 13 (2011)
World on a Wire (1973)
TV, film and theatre
TV
American Gods
American Gods
Brokenwood Mysteries (New Zealand)
Legion
Timeless
Timeless
Blacklist: Redemption
Blacklist
Blacklist
Waking the Dead
FILM
Imposter (2012)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
(The woman above wears a jacket just like one I remember my Mum had.)
Fire Walk With Me
THEATRE
An Inspector Calls (London Playhouse Theatre 2017)
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A couple more viewings
A second from ‘The Man in the High Castle’
A third from ‘Man in the High Castle’
Predestination
Mojave Phone Booth
I listen to a podcast called ‘99% Invisible’. It’s an American series I have been onto for a couple of years – although I only listen in spasmodically. Podcast no. 202 is title ‘Mojave Phone Booth’ . Cool.
It has led me to a movie I didn’t know about ‘Mojave Phone Booth’ (2006) and the Wikipedia page on the artefact itself – you guessed it, a phone box in the Mojave desert.
This goes a long way to proving that I am not alone in my fascination for phone boxes.
Recent viewing
I don’t actually know this programme but couldn’t ignore the ad, for obvious reasons;
This shot is from the penultimate episode of ‘Humans‘:
From the recent adaptation of Jekyl and Hyde:
The iconic red box even turns up on a US highway in ‘Austin Powers: the spy who shagged me’.
Children of Men
In the refugee camp at Bexhill (Children of Men):
Nightime viewing
Here I like the use of the phone to reflect the woman making the call
Apocalyptic scene
Here is a scene from ‘The day after tomorrow‘ (2004) with a phone in the New York Library being in use to its very end…
More on tv…
This was a recent episode from ‘Arrow’ set in the USA. So why is there a classic UK red phone box in the background?
From ‘The Code’ season 2. A classic shot of the Queensland landscape…
and a classic movie – ‘The Apartment’.
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