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Luc Besson: A filmography
Visionary director Luc Besson said he’d make 10 films and then give up. The last film that he helmed came out in 2006 and was based on his series of children’s books. The Big Blue and Atlantis were inspired by a childhood spent following his scuba-diving folks around while films like Leon and Nikita dealt with strong female leads, the latter spawning five seasons worth of an American tv show. While Besson has produced many, many films (most recently the highly successful Liam Neeson revenge “Taken”) those which he had complete control over shine out most prominently. Over the coming weeks I will look at a selection of his personal works. See below for the full list.
Dark City Director’s Cut #1: Second Viewing
** This contains spoilers and may be rather boring for someone not obsessed with the 1998 film “Dark City”. You have been warned! **
Waterworld and Jaws
When I was on my movie-hunt yesterday searching for stuff about Scream 4 and the next Jurassic Park film (and also watching Air Force One on TV!) I came across a few good blogs, including ABC News Articulate, featuring “Movie Minutiae” posts on movies like Jaws and Waterworld. I like both of these sea tales for different reasons, despite the fact that the latter had the cack kicked out of it.
Kill It, Cook It, Eat It
I overdosed on this show last week. I was looking for something to put on in the background so I loaded up iplayer and stuck this on, having read a few lines on it in last weeks paper. Kill It, Cook It, Eat It’s premise is simple – 9 people from different walks of life with very different outlooks on eating meat, animals in general and what you should and shouldn’t do are asked to hunt, kill and eat the animal peculiar to the episode. In the current series they’ve boiled bunnies, quacked ducks and erm… shot deer.
