2.28 - HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) & Desecration

The franchise is back on form: the sixth instalment, we agree (a Prestige rarity!) is a belter. Rob gets technical; Sam gets metaphorical. Business as usual!

This Week’s Watching
HEAT (1995): Michael Mann, Robert de Niro, Al Pacino
TABOO (2017): Tom Hardy, Edward Hardy, Steven Knight

Recommendations
HOT FUZZ (2007): Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
THE PRESTIGE (2006): Christopher Nolan, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale
GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002): Martin Scorcese, Leonardo di Caprio, Daniel Day-Lewis
THE ROAD (2009): John Hillcoat, Cormac McCarthy, Viggo Mortensen

Footnotes
Firstly, a few technical notes: about tilt-shift and its use in photography. (Also, here’s one of our favourite directors on his use of the technique, in a film we’ve discussed here before) This is an example of the sort of model-village stuff Rob mentions. And this is good on the link between colour palette and mood in film. Finally, Sam’s been thinking about the neologistic word Horcrux, which is pretty central to this film; here’s a fun little article on a number of the coinages J.K. Rowling has come up with over the course of the franchise, some of which we’ve already praised for their inventiveness.