Comments on: Hadewijch, or Bruno Dumont at the London Film Festival

By: The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:45:57 +0000

Was picking up on Stiv Bators of course, not Sir Chris F though I did once catch him on tv flouncing about in a monastery…

Colin McCabe’s telephone manner is one of the worst I’ve ever heard. I had to listen to 2 mins of him hyperventilating about Derek Jarman before I could get a word in edgeways: Sorry but you’re talking to the wrong person. He was not in the least apologetic but rang off before I could say: Fat arrogant cunt.

Yes, I’d like to see a film with nothing but heavy dub on the sound-track – Lee Perry, King Tubby et al and lashings of Big Youth, Keith Hudson and Augustus Pablo.

By: The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:30:05 +0000

Jim Carroll has a thing or two to say about Catholic Boys too…

By: The Bootleg Sir Christopher Freyling

The Bootleg Sir Christopher Freyling — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:56:08 +0000

I am a British educationalist and writer, known for my studies of popular culture, and I don’t see how any of you can expect to have a serious discussion of Bruno Dumont’s film without referring explicitly to my film studies tomes “Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone” (1981), “American Westerners” (1984), “Clint Eastwood” (1992), “Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death” (2000), “Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema” (2005), “Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in Italy” (2005) and “Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design” (2005).

BTW: Did you know I was also Chairman of Arts Council England until 2007, Chairman of the Design Council, Chairman of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, and a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum. I was a governor of the British Film Institute in the 1980s, and director of The Royal College of Art until the current academic year.

I was awarded a knighthood in 2001 for “Services to Art and Design Education” and chose “PERGE SCELUS MIHI DIEM PERFICIAS” as my motto, which translates as “Proceed, varlet, and let the day be rendered perfect for my benefit”. In more modern English, the phrase would say: “Go ahead, punk, make my day”.

So those former colleagues of mine who were claiming as recently as last night that I am ‘a certified moron’, need to ask themselves one question: “Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you?”

By: I Was Laura Mulvy's Body Double

I Was Laura Mulvy's Body Double — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:58:36 +0000

McCabe you idiot, they’re obviously a bunch of working class oiks so they’re bound to be drunk and on drugs. It is up to progressive members of the bourgeoisie to save the working class from itself – Freud, Gucci and Godard united in muddle….

By: The Utterly Fake Colin McCabe

The Utterly Fake Colin McCabe — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:17:46 +0000

Are you all on drugs? Nothing any of you say makes any sense! How is a long term Labour Party member who tore up his card three years ago and who love Jean- Luc Godard supposed to make any sense of the world today?

By: oldrope

oldrope — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:58:08 +0000

This film sounds too much like my life to make for comfortable viewing. Does it adequately render the sacrement of Confirmation? I hope so.

And the reason you had to fight such security Trip is that they know your sort.

In fact you probably just happened to walk past BBC Television Centre last night and suddenly there were shedloads of coppers and hundreds of placard wavers. The coppers I can understand, they’ve been tapping you for years. The placardians? They must have some sort of wannabe flashmobbing thing going on… and spying on you as well, obviously

By: adam ant

adam ant — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:31:30 +0000

beat my guest!

By: Stive Bators

Stive Bators — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:08:44 +0000

I don’t wanna be no Catholic boy
I just wanna have some fun
I don’t wanna be no Catholic boy
And get beat by the nuns

I don’t wanna kneel, I don’t wanna feel
Guilty supression
I wanna beat my meat right in the street
Dominus vobiscum

By: Georges Sorel

Georges Sorel — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:46:25 +0000

violence, did somebody mention violence?

By: Mario Mentrup

Mario Mentrup — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:29:02 +0000

i hate this catholic prick!