The third season of
Doctor Who came to its climax on Saturday, and the entire thing has just been extraordinary. A few slightly dodgy (but still massively entertaining) episodes aside, it’s been a fairly flawless ride with some of the best work the show has ever, ever done. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of the finale at first; it’s was bonkers, epic stuff but after digesting it for a while I’ve come to realise that it was just massively brilliant. Totally wonderful, by far the best thing on TV. Or film, for that matter.
I mean, come on:
that’s how you do science fiction drama.
Other less important things:
Faust (1926) – I’ve been wanting to buy this on DVD for well over 6 months and finally got round to it, and it didn’t disappoint. I love German cinema, both the New Wave and the Weimar classic stuff, and getting into these way old silent films has been great. Almost as good as
Pandora’s Box, and I seriously adore
Pandora’s Box.
Rushmore – I’m slowly making my way through Wes Anderson’s four films, working my way backwards (by accident). I liked this the least out of
The Royal Tenenbaums and
The Life Aquatic, it just didn’t quite click. The direction was a bit off, and the script felt quite self-conscious in comparison to the other two. I dunno, I did enjoy it, but in just about every sense I thought it lesser than the others.
Sid & Nancy – A film about the punk scene, focusing in on the relationship between Sid Vicious of the
Sex Pistols and Nancy Spungen. I really liked it a lot, really a lot. I love the whole punk ethos – as an interest, not in actuality – and this would make a good, straighter foil in a double-bill with
Jubilee.