A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

On October 9, 2012, 50 years and four days after the premiere of Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli's production of Dr. No, Capitol Records released Best of Bond...James Bond: 50 Years - 50 Tracks, a two-CD compilation of title songs and other music from the first 22 EON films based on Ian Fleming's iconic British Secret Service agent with a license to kill: "Bond...James Bond."  Dropped to coincide with the premiere of director Sam Mendes' Skyfall - even though Adele's rendition of the eponymous title song was not included - this album (which was made in collaboration with MGM Music and EMI Records) is an update of 1999's 19-track disc Best of Bond...James Bond, an album that only presented the "main title" songs of the series up to director Roger Spottiswoode's Tomorrow Never Dies even though Michael Apted's  The World is Not Enough was released that same year. For Bond's 50th Anniversary, Capitol and MGM Music went b...

Evita (1996) Directed by Alan Parker Written by Alan Parker and Oliver Stone, based on Tim Rice’s book for the stage version of Evita Starring: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail Ché : Tell me before I seek worthier pastures and thereby restore self-esteem, how can you be so short-sighted to look never further than this week or next week to have no impossible dream? Eva Perón : Allow me to help you slink off to the sidelines and mark your adieu with three cheers! But first, tell me who'd be delighted if I said I'd take on the world's greatest problems - from war to pollution, no hope of solution, even if I lived for one hundred years? Alan Parker’s Evita, which stars Madonna as Eva Duarte de Peron, Antonio Banderas as Che, and Jonathan Pryce as Argentinian dictator Juan Peron, is a flashy but superficial adaptation of the popiular 1979 rock opera. Like its title character, Evita represents the triumph of style over substance; we marvel ...