The conservative philosophy made high art - “For things to stay the same, everything must change”.
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I plan to watch Band of Brothers and The Pacific, along with the Australian triumph about the Great War (filmed largely in Townsville), Beneath Hill 60.
For a light treat, though, there’s no beating 2008’s Quantum of Solace, a comfort movie, with Daniel Craig as the pro-torture James Bond. Fast cars. Terrible pickup lines. Big guns. I mean, what’s not to like?
Like many people I have come to enjoy boxed sets of the more thoughtful American cable television series.
The good news is that I got my copy for only $14.95 at the Mustard Seed Bookstore in Sydney only last month.
Just about the last thing I felt like watching at the end of a long day was an American cop show praised for its realistic portrayal of the foul-mouthed black drug dealers of Baltimore’s welfare housing estates and crooked white unionists on the city’s docks.
The best enjoyment from DVD-land this year for me has been the purchase of the old production of Edward the Seventh, and keeping in the historical vein, Bright Star, John Keats and his attachment to Fanny Brawne, was superb.
I’d forgotten what a superb film it is; a once-in-a-lifetime combination of tension, laziness, comedy and righteous indignation. Just the thing for long warm evenings and mint juleps.
We love box-sets of TV series at our house, and the Christmas holidays is a great time to catch up on some you may have missed. Here’s some suggestions.
John Izzard asked Quadrant contributors and readers to write about some of the books they have read in 2010 or are saving to read over the Christmas holidays.
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