Peter Bradshaw quotes

This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.
-- Peter Bradshaw

#Drama #Different #Cinema

Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that seeks to break free of parochialism and think about where and why and what we are without the language of religion... I loved Sunshine for its radical proposal that humans can and will do something about a catastrophe, and that our weapons could be used up in the service of preservation.
-- Peter Bradshaw

#Sunshine #Intelligent #Thinking

Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by Stan Collymore, of all people. On the rebound from John Motson, perhaps. It is difficult to convey just how uproariously awful this movie is, all of the time.
-- Peter Bradshaw

#Soccer #Football #Media

What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.
-- Peter Bradshaw

#Real #Awards #Odds

There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.
-- Peter Bradshaw

#Baby #Nice #Moving

Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.
-- Peter Bradshaw

#School #Intelligent #Oxford

Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

The best cinema is about ethics.