Tuesday, 4 August 2015

Amy, Kurt Vonnegut and Back to the Future live in concert - Reviews #211

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The first of three updates, as I haven't done any for a while. This one has a great new film, a great old-ish film with good George Luc...
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Monday, 6 July 2015

Ten things I learned about Lillian Gish

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She was not just the first great screen actor, but arguably the greatest screen actor of all, with a devastating emotional sensitivity and...
Thursday, 25 June 2015

Fury Road, Hitler's secretary, and echolalia - Reviews #210

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I went to Mallorca, read two books and swam in the sea. And that's not all. When I got back, I went to the cinema to see a movie you all...

Gish and Griffith: pockmarked with greatness

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You know D. W. Griffith - he made the most racist film of all time, The Birth of a Nation , which rather inconveniently also created cinem...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Secret Cinema, Adam Curtis and gut punches - Reviews #209

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I'm planning something separate about my overriding preoccupations - D. W. Griffith and Lillian Gish - but here's everything else I...
Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Leni Riefenstahl, Mad Max, and prawns - Reviews #208

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A micro-update for your delectation, featuring all of the above, and not much more. Also, I went to see The Lion King , which was great fun....
Monday, 1 June 2015

The Elephant Man at Theatre Royal Haymarket

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Wednesday 27 May The Elephant Man (Theatre Royal Haymarket) - This adaptation of Bernard Pomerance's play (also the basis for the e...