April 2014
» Spearmint Rehearsal, Films of 2013
[posted by admin on Apr 25th, 2014]
We had a Spearmint rehearsal – that’s us there in the picture. Very strange rehearsing after while, time stand still. It always seems to be just the same, that’s the bad things as well as the good things. If you want to invent a time machine, form a band and step into a rehearsal room – you won’t even experience night or day again. We crawled in there several years ago and emerged as Brundlefly. Not as good looking obviously. The band are the same, the songs are the same, the sofas’s the same and the lock on the storage door is the same: broken. In fact, the only thing that has changed is the price of hiring the room.
Andy is busy with Weller in May, so we will be playing the shows in London and New York as a quartet, the first time we have played in this format since 1999. Jim back on bass and me playing more guitar means we won’t be tackling certain songs, but makes thing punchy and quite energising. Andy will rejoin us for gigs as a quintet after that, and we will expand the number of songs we are drawing from.
Here are Bridie and my favourite films of 2013. For the first time, we came to the (pub) table with exactly the same top three, so that made it easy. We have negotiated on the rest. It seemed to be a year where a lot of attention was paid to a couple of (in my view) average films, while some crackers were ignored:
| 1 | Â Blue Jasmine |
| 2 | Â Before Midnight |
| 3 | Â Frances Ha |
| 4 | Â All Is Lost |
| 5 | Â Cloud Atlas |
| 6 | Â Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa |
| 7 | Â Enough Said |
| 8 | Â Inequality For All |
| 9 | Â Die Wand |
| 10 | Â Django Unchained |
| 11 | Â Nebraska |
| 12 | Â Zero Dark Thirty |
| 13 | Â The Worlds End |
| 14 | Â Behind The Candelabra |
| 15 | Â The Way Way Back |
| 16 | Â Prisoners |
| 17 | Â Black Fish |
| 18 | Â The Act Of Killing |
| 19 | Â Like Someone In Love |
| 20 | Â Stoker |
| 21 | Â The Secret World Of Walter Mitty |
| 22 | Â American Hustle |
| 23 | Â Hunger Games:Catching Fire |
| 24 | Â Anchorman 2 |
| 25 | Â Love Is All You Need |
| 26 | Â Stories We Tell |
| 27 | Â The Place Beyond The Pines |
| 28 | Â Philomena |
| 29 | Â The Conjuring |
| 30 | Â Bernie |
| 31 | Â Upstream Colour |
| 32 | Â Captain Phillips |
| 33 | Â Dans Le Maison |
| 34 | Â About Time |
| 35 | Â Sleep Tight |
| 36 | Â In A World… |
| 37 | Â World War Z |
| 38 | Â Blood In The Mobile |
| 39 | Â Gimme The Loot |
| 40 | Â Mud |
| 41 | Â A Field In England |
| 42 | Â Compliance |
| 43 | Â Ping Pong |
| 44 | Â The Bling Ring |
| 45 | Â Springbreakers |
| 46 | Â Black Rock |
| 47 | Â This Is 40 |
| 48 | Â Kings Of Summer |
| 49 | Â No |
| 50 | Â Side Effects |
| 51 | Â What Maisie Knew |
| 52 | Â The Lone Ranger |
| 53 | Â The Impossible |
| 54 | Â Pussy Riot A Punk Prayer |
| 55 | Â Trance |
| 56 | Â Star Trek Into Darkness |
| 57 | Â Frozen River |
| 58 | Â Breathe In |
| 59 | Â Robot & Frank |
| 60 | Â I, Anna |
| 61 | Â Despicable Me 2 |
| 62 | Â Beautiful Creatures |
| 63 | Â Gravity |
| 64 | Â Arbitrage |
| 65 | Â The Sapphires |
| 66 | Â Side By Side |
| 67 | Â Monsters University |
| 68 | Â Salute |
| 69 | Â More Than Honey |
| 70 | Â Populaire |
| 71 | Â Oz |
| 72 | Â The Spirit Of 45 |
| 73 | Â Now You See Me |
| 74 | Â The Paperboy |
| 75 | Â Dark Skies |
| 76 | Â West Of Memphis |
| 77 | Â Chained |
| 78 | Â Simon Killer |
| 79 | Â Les Invisibles |
| 80 | Â Beware Mr Baker |
| 81 | Â The Ice Man |
| 82 | Â Battle Of The Sexes |
| 83 | Â Mission To Lars |
| 84 | Â I Give It A Year |
| 85 | Â Identity Theif |
| 86 | Â Good Vibrations |
| 87 | Â No One Lives |
| 88 | Â Beyond The Hills |
| 89 | Â Olympus Has Fallen |
| 90 | Â Rebellion |
| 91 | Â Mama |
| 92 | Â The Incredible Burt Wonderstone |
| 93 | Â Terri |
| 94 | Â Only God Forgives |
| 95 | Â Milius |
| 96 | Â Something In The Air |
| 97 | Â The Summit |
| 98 | Â Don Jon |
| 99 | Â The Bay |
| 100 | Â The Frozen Ground |
[ Continued… ]