Thursday 8 December 2011

Stardust Memories

More views of - or after - Cambridge Film Festival 2011
(Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)


9 Movember [a new month, brought on - or made real by - tiredness?]

In 1980, when this film was released, nobody would have thought of copying Woody Allen and talking about 'the train station' - we would have understood, and obviously without difficulty, what he meant, but have been talking about going to 'the railway station', if not just 'the station' (as, after all, what other sort of station could one possibly mean)?

Do times seem less certain now, that we might mean something else by 'the station', such as the bus station? Maybe, but to me the implied distinction seems pointless, as that place is always qualified by bus, and is never just 'the station', which only means where one catches a train.

And, no, we're not talking about military stations, or weather stations!


All of which should not detract from commending this great film - this must be the fifth or sixth viewing since it first came out, and it stands not only the test of time, but also of the viewer who knows where it is going and for whom that reveals no flaws!


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