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Forget KONY; this is KIMY2012

April 30, 2012by phillegitimate 2 Comments

As the auditorium filled up, I began to get a KONY2012 kind of feeling. The room was full of well-scrubbed university types. Most of them had nice smiles. On the […]

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USA

After seven months of ‘college’ I’m still waiting for my Bret Easton Ellis experience

March 26, 2012by phillegitimate 3 Comments

Bret Easton Ellis sold college to me. Not university; I already knew about that. We have that in Australia. I came to the US to go to college. Cah-lege. When […]

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USA
Even revolutionaries go to the cinema (and they do so in old pink cars).

A film primer for my trip to Cuba

August 8, 2011by phillegitimate 6 Comments

My trip to Cuba fell together in the space of a week. The US consulate returned my passport faster than expected, and a day later I had a ticket to Havana. Such […]

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Cuba
Outdoor cinema is good; outdoor cinema with plastic fangs is better.

Guillermo del Toro’s bloodsucker invasion of Guadalajara

April 1, 2011by phillegitimate 1 Comment

Guadalajara is trying to raise its reputation to that of a city that takes culture seriously. Long known for being traditional and commercial, it is trying, through the annual book […]

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Mexico
Biutiful

On how Javier Bardem is going to die

November 13, 2010by phillegitimate 3 Comments

Preparing to Mexico, I assumed I would be surrounding myself with Mexican cinema. Already a big fan of Mexico’s big three (Cuarón, Iñárritu, del Toro), I assumed I would be […]

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