Now, I could waffle on about Casablanca, possibly the best example of a movie that should have been a "B" picture, should have been a dud, but somehow became, for all the accidents and serendipity behind the making of it, a screen gem.
But I wont.
Instead, let me tell you about another little gem, "Cool and Crazy".
Cool and Crazy is a documentary about a disparate group of men in the Norwegian province of Finnmark, who are in a choir.
"Yeah", I hear you say as you exhale the smoke of your Lambert & Butler, in a slow, Kentucky Bourbon drawl.
In this film, director Knut Erik Jensen reveals what the blurb in the contemporary trailers for "Casablanca" promised - "all humanity is here".
It is dramatic: you become gripped by the stories of these men, and how they all coalesce, to some extent, in the Berlevåg male voice choir. They are men of hope and belief, men of fortitude and tenacity, men of quiet desperation, in a word -MEN.
You can get it on DVD, and really, you should.
(film may be edited for smoking scenes, inhalation and preparation of an on-screen hand-rolled cigarette, and therefore, this DVD may not be available in Scotland)
But I wont.
Instead, let me tell you about another little gem, "Cool and Crazy".
Cool and Crazy is a documentary about a disparate group of men in the Norwegian province of Finnmark, who are in a choir.
"Yeah", I hear you say as you exhale the smoke of your Lambert & Butler, in a slow, Kentucky Bourbon drawl.
In this film, director Knut Erik Jensen reveals what the blurb in the contemporary trailers for "Casablanca" promised - "all humanity is here".
It is dramatic: you become gripped by the stories of these men, and how they all coalesce, to some extent, in the Berlevåg male voice choir. They are men of hope and belief, men of fortitude and tenacity, men of quiet desperation, in a word -MEN.
You can get it on DVD, and really, you should.
(film may be edited for smoking scenes, inhalation and preparation of an on-screen hand-rolled cigarette, and therefore, this DVD may not be available in Scotland)
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