Waiting for the boys to wake up & A Single Man

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Killing time, waiting for the boys (B. and G.) to wake up from their induced sleep (see the post from this morning here), amongst other things, I watched on the ABC iView the latest episode of the 'At the Movies' show, compered by the always reliable reviewers Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton. One of the films discussed was Tom Ford's 'A Single Man'. I've listened to a couple of podcasts of Colin Firth being interviewed about his role in the film, as well as Tom talking about it with Terry Gross at the NPR podcast 'Fresh Air' (both of them, Colin and Tom, are highly articulate and intelligent), so I was quite interested on Margaret and David's take on the movie. Both of them were highly congratulatory on Firth ('his best performance so far', according to David), but the movie itself could have done with some messiness in it (as a response to Ford's unrelentingly immaculately designed beautiful scenes), they both argued. It was 3.5 stars out of 5 from both of them. One to see, regardless, I'm sure, what's wrong with this kind of 'intelligent design'.

The artworks in the background:

Stanislaw Fijalkowski

Czerwona Szarfa (Red Sash), 1995

Screenprint, 67.5 x 48 cm, edition 12/20

Esa Jaske Collection

and

Simeon Nelson

Trimatrix, 1995

Acrylic, MDF

Esa Jaske Collection

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Simeon Nelson

Desiring Machine, 2005

Plasma cut 25mm galvanised steel

1000 x 1000 x 3800cm

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