Comments on: British Independent Film Awards – Our Take

By: MikeBoyFan

MikeBoyFan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:36:42 +0000

Best foreign film, you're bang on with Let The Right One In, amazing film.

By: Anton Bitel

Anton Bitel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:31:49 +0000

Stop it at all costs: The Hurt Locker
It’s not very good, is it? Admit it. It’s a bit boring and it’s about a colonialist occupying power defeating an insurgency, which is about like supporting the Germans in a World War II film.

Well I think it is very good, if 'difficult' (in an ambivalent, Jarhead sort of way) – and while it certainly is about a colonialist occupying power engaging with (albeit hardly defeating) an insurgency, the film does not, as far as I could tell, in any way 'support' the side whose efforts it documents. On the contrary, it presents the protagonist's 'heroic' conduct as unhinged, reckless and pathological.

On balance, though, reckon Il Divo would probably get my vote for Best Foreign Film, mind…

Couldn't agree more about Nowhere Boy.

By: Lim Salt

Lim Salt — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:14:34 +0000

Thanks a lot Matt, Samantha Morton will kill us all!

I actually really liked The Hurt Locker…

By: Sonia C

Sonia C — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:01:46 +0000

"This is a simpering middlebrow con job'" surely a description that can be used to describe the very middle class and very mediocre an Education?