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From: Stephen Feather
Date: 27 Jul 2010
Time: 16:31:55 -0500
Disappointing - I enjoyed the special effects, the score, Pete Poslethwaite, and the ending but it generally left me cold with its over explanation of the very interesting themes it tried to depict. I like the ideas it dealt with; e.g dreams within dreams, subconsious projections, etc but there was too much time spent on characters sitting around chatting mystically and sidetracks to the main lead's (Leo Dicaprio) emotional problems which are too long and drawn out. In this aspect it is very similar to a film Dicaprio was in recently; Shutter Island which suffered for the same reasons. Nolan originally inteded for Inception to be a horror film but added the emotional context to connect with the audience - I think it would have been a much more interesting film if he hadn't done that. I think Leo has been in a couple of stinkers this year. Films that promised but didn't deliver.
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From: movie reviews
Date: 27 Jul 2010
Time: 07:14:11 -0500
Films are dreams of course. This film is stupid complicated. Leonardo di Cap is wooden as a magritte painting. It's hard to act as if in a dream, like acting bad acting, or acting acting. Somehow by the skin of its tombstone teeth the film is somewhere near ok, but so many clanking action sequences, there are a lot of chases in dreams, but where is the chagall flying or the dali sexiness, I suppose they didnt want to overegg it, but the gray and the clunking awful soundtrack, yet still perchance to dream....
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From: richard burton
Date: 21 Jul 2010
Time: 16:42:22 -0500
what a surprise.... gary hume supports ian davenport... how about neale howells as a rank outsider... exhibits with the john martin gallery london... www.artistnealehowells.ds4a.com The exhibition for JM2010 will run from 18 September 2010 - 3 January 2011. List of exhibitors The full list of 2010’s shortlisted artists is: 1. Cornelia Baltes: 'THERE YOU ARE, YOU STUPID COW!' 2. Jon Braley: 'untitled crap' 3. GL Brierley: 'Jilly Jiggy jaffacakes' 4. Deborah Burnstone: 'Freeway mother sucker' 5. Darren Coffield: 'Episodical- does anyone really know what i mean' 6. Keith Coventry: 'Spectrum Jesus, obivously the coat of many colours me finks' 7. Edward Coyle: 'Multiplicity study of idiots' 8. Theo Cuff: 'move over darling untitled' 9. Stuart Cumberland: 'its bigger than that YLLW240' 10. Ian Davenport: 'Poddle Painting: ' 11. Philip Diggle: 'For Your Pleasure marm' 12. Tim Ellis: 'United in Different Guises XXXXIII heaven ' 13. Geraint Evans: 'An Alpine Biodome' 14. Adam Fearon: 'Untitled' 15. Damien Flood: 'Drip drip clipply clot' 16. Nick Fox: 'Metatopia ponce' 17. David Fulford: 'Near the Site of evil piggy's' 18. Mikey Georgeson: 'Untitled (Molecule of Intuition)' 19. Chris Hamer: 'gareth Crook' 20. Andy Harper: 'Frau Troffea eh!' 21. Richard Harrison: 'Mountain Peaks are looking up' 22. Sigrid Holmwood: 'Butchering a Pig' 23. Phil Illingworth: '3D painting No.1 (experiments with colour reflection) if you say so' 24. Lee Johnson: 'The Kerchief or Dr Olfato's Welcome, yeah right' 25. Neal Jones: 'ORANGE PAVING, clever' 26. Joseph Long: 'Hortus Botanicus, if you say so' 27. Elizabeth McDonald: 'Bee Keepers and transexuals' 28. Nicholas Middleton: 'Protest, 1st April 2009 and so on' 29. Michael Miller: 'Suspended Animation, you can do this ur self' 30. Matthew Mounsey: 'Prehistoric Sex Machine in the red corner' 31. Jost Münster: 'to the left to the ' 32. Cara Nahaul: 'Somewhere between prayer and age 33. Narbi Price: 'Untitled See Saw Painting, piss' 34. Steven Proudfoot: 'The conservative party' 35. Sabrina Shah: 'Witness, shamore' 36. Annabelle Shelton: 'Helter Skelter Runway 2009, don't know what i'm doing'. 37. George Sherlock: 'Polycrylic Decades, big word' 38. Michael Simpson: 'Bench Painting Untitled' 39. Henrietta Simson: 'Giotto's Template, angleos foreskin' 40. Veronica Smirnoff: 'Lubo, off to ee the wizard' 41. Ian Peter Smith: 'Matter at the edge, yes ' 42. Daniel Sturgis: 'Still Squallings two' 43. Geraldine Swayne: 'Industrialist on Wheels' 44. Jason Thompson: 'REFRACTIONS (ROBERT HOOKE) one night only you' 45. Christian Ward: 'Frontier Monument, i you don't know me by now't' 46. Neale Howells: ' sticking it up' (yeah) because i can... Back to the top Membership and support Vacancies Register with us Contact us Media centre © 2010 National Museums Liverpool
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From: >
Date: 22 Jul 2010
Time: 04:38:52 -0500
are these the genuine titles... quite a group
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From: one of those shows
Date: 21 Jul 2010
Time: 09:00:41 -0500
Yes, picasso painter chef type shows. Sergeant is known for his great facility and not quite being a great painter. He is good at drawing and painting in different styles, but never works out a style that comes out of urgency. Bit like art now.
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From: CAP
Date: 23 Jul 2010
Time: 09:06:15 -0500
Let's face it he was a toff with tolerable taste who got to swan around a lot of nice places, and liked to pretend he was getting to grips with life or nature but really it was just the view from a comfortable vantage point, made all the more attractive by merry children at play. He was to Manet what Mucha was to Munch.
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From: Clem
Date: 20 Jul 2010
Time: 18:58:18 -0500
The most perfect gallery in London, yet filled with twaddle.... Highlights: Hurvin Anderson , especially "Black Street" , Rupert Norfolk, that Rock piece with its hidden faces, he must have sufffered for that! Overall disappointing- Stinky are Ged Quinn, the guy ripping off Rachel Harrison, the woman rippping off David Noonan, Best optical painting- Barry Reigate, almost made up for complete lack of content, sculptures terrible sub- McCarthy, Karla Black, terribly pretentious conflation of Robert Morris and Claes Oldenburg, made you long for Claes Oldenburg . Steven Claydon, obscure , difficult , howsabout clear and simple? Matthew Darbyshire, deeply superficial and no, that is not a virtue, Phoebe Unwin , ow could one object? Compelling: Mario Testino's photographs of Kate Moss. She is without a doubt the worlds most beautiful woman.Stinky: the whole show and the Saatchi franchise. Did you hear that Saatchi is retiring and giving his gallery to the nation? Thats a bit like Ronald McDonald donating all his hot apple pies to Help the Aged.
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From: CAP
Date: 20 Jul 2010
Time: 07:32:04 -0500
Mostly modest sculptures by big names - like Frank Auerbach (drawings) George of the Condo, John Stezaker, Thomas Schutte, Barry Flanagan, Glenn Brown, Evan Holloway (who?). Solid but unexciting summer fare really, to be commended mostly for the freshingly brief press release, which can be quoted in full here - 'A gathering of primitive, abstract, iconic, lumpen, powerful, playful, referential, reflective, layered, delirious, precious, beautiful, psychotic, grotesque, and detached forms.' Still the gallery I would most like to show in...
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From: art reviews
Date: 18 Jul 2010
Time: 09:50:00 -0500
Ceciley Brown, Tal R etc etc try to lighten up the crowd of craps, but end up seeing their work dragged into the mud, and look no better than all the other mediocrity. The thrilled gray generation punters clutch their little books and exclaim over ART, you see it's at the Royal Academy so it must be, like if you go to macdonalds you must be eating cheeseburgers, it's safety in a longtime brand. However, thrillingly bedazzingly ART is not here. It has left, not a glimmer, ok maybe Hump Ocean's works are all right, but the other stuff is just paint or whatver slodged around to make a grim imitation of art (life).
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From: CAP
Date: 19 Jul 2010
Time: 00:58:17 -0500
Cec's show in Berlin recently was also a dog. Wouldn't normally pump WhiteHotMagazine.com but this seemed a fairly balanced assessment - http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/brown-contemporary-fine-arts-berlin/2072