To strive, to seek, to find…

I am going to be all over this. I’ll need a laff.

Madonna’s directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, will have its world premiere at Germany’s Berlinale film festival next February. The thirty-minute low-budget short comedy is reportedly based on the singer’s life.

From Rolling Stone (last item)

Here’s the review!

Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited will close the London Film Festival tonight, with a sold-out screening in the West End.

The film follows three brothers - reunited for the first time in the year since their father’s death - who take a train journey across northern India, in the hope of renewing their relationships, finding someone they lost and, in true gap-year style, finding themselves. Suchandrika Chakrabarti, who has been covering this year’s festival, takes an advance look.

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If I do say so myself.

Sicko was shown at the London Film Festival last week. It is Michael Moore’s latest effort, looking at the mess that is America’s privatised healthcare system, relying as it does upon insurance claims to pay medical bills.

As Moore’s average, middle-class, insured subjects show us, though, having the insurance may still not be enough. The industry does all it can to avoid payouts, denying the needy of healthcare.

Netribution’s London correspondent Suchandrika Chakrabarti provides an extensive, absorbing review of the latest film from the documentary world’s most popular (creatively) and challenged (critically) director.

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8 William Shakespeare: You don’t need me to tell you that he’s a bit good. Go and find your own favourite. There’s plenty of material out there.

I like:

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not” - Hamlet

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me” - Richard II

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance” - The Winter’s Tale

Someone big in the footie world next…

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4 Jeremy Clarkson: “We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a Terminator, not the heroine in an EM Forster novel.” Oh jesus. This man is not witty. He is one of the reasons why we shouldn’t complain if something is apparentely “political correctness gone mad,” because he is the somewhat dull alternative.

Well, let’s give him a chance (these quotations were brought to you by Channel Dave, the home of witty banter):

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A survey by British digital channel UKTV, on the occasion of the launch of Channel Dave, has found that 3000 “comedy fans” reckon that Oscar Wilde was a bit funny. In fact, he got 20% of the vote - yes, 600 peeps think he’s très amusant!

Which other totally surprising figures of great personal wit made the Top 10?

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