Connelly/Tribeca/Mortal Engines
Jennifer Connelly
Worm: ‘Ello
Sarah: Did you say hello?
Worm: No, I said ‘ello, but that’s close enough.
I let my five year old watch Labyrinth for the first time a few weeks ago and now she is obsessed, she watches it all the time. Despite being over 20 years old the film still works and is as captivating now as it was then, this however isn’t down to Jim Henson’s puppetry or, most definitely, the presence of Bowie, it’s because of Jennifer Connelly’s ‘Sarah’. Henson had tried a feature length film before with The Dark Crystal however this lacked any human element and hasn’t really dated as well as Labyrinth. The character of Sarah is what holds this film together, my daughter wants to be like Sarah, for her toys to come to life in some other world where it’s ok to throw babies up in the air. And I love that it has that affect on her.
When I first saw it I must have been 10, and Connelly at 14 looked stunning. Now at 36 she has two kids much like me and as well as still being stunning I wonder if her two children sing ‘Dance Magic’ at the breakfast table like mine do.
Tribeca
Now defunct Swedish Pop duo on Labrador records (Sambassadeur/Surburban kids with biblical names) This song reminds me of Word Girl by Scritti Politti – a slight similarity to Green Gartside’s voice in places – but more the feeling it evokes. What feeling is this? The feeling of being eleven years old at a school disco and wanting so badly to dance with the girl in the yellow dress.
MP3: Tribeca - Solitude
Mortal Engines - Phillip Reve
In a post holocaust future London is a predatory traction city, high rise platforms on giant tank like wheels, surviving by ingesting other smaller towns. Ingenious for its use of a brutally facially disfigured girl as one of its central characters (Note to self: Hester is due a girl slot on this post) Probably overshadowed by Howl’s Moving Castle though, i'm not sure who was first with this concept.
(Read Unread Reading)
Worm: ‘Ello
Sarah: Did you say hello?
Worm: No, I said ‘ello, but that’s close enough.
I let my five year old watch Labyrinth for the first time a few weeks ago and now she is obsessed, she watches it all the time. Despite being over 20 years old the film still works and is as captivating now as it was then, this however isn’t down to Jim Henson’s puppetry or, most definitely, the presence of Bowie, it’s because of Jennifer Connelly’s ‘Sarah’. Henson had tried a feature length film before with The Dark Crystal however this lacked any human element and hasn’t really dated as well as Labyrinth. The character of Sarah is what holds this film together, my daughter wants to be like Sarah, for her toys to come to life in some other world where it’s ok to throw babies up in the air. And I love that it has that affect on her.
When I first saw it I must have been 10, and Connelly at 14 looked stunning. Now at 36 she has two kids much like me and as well as still being stunning I wonder if her two children sing ‘Dance Magic’ at the breakfast table like mine do.
Tribeca
Now defunct Swedish Pop duo on Labrador records (Sambassadeur/Surburban kids with biblical names) This song reminds me of Word Girl by Scritti Politti – a slight similarity to Green Gartside’s voice in places – but more the feeling it evokes. What feeling is this? The feeling of being eleven years old at a school disco and wanting so badly to dance with the girl in the yellow dress.
MP3: Tribeca - Solitude
Mortal Engines - Phillip Reve
In a post holocaust future London is a predatory traction city, high rise platforms on giant tank like wheels, surviving by ingesting other smaller towns. Ingenious for its use of a brutally facially disfigured girl as one of its central characters (Note to self: Hester is due a girl slot on this post) Probably overshadowed by Howl’s Moving Castle though, i'm not sure who was first with this concept.
(Read Unread Reading)
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