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In a Lonely Place

Normally I watch a film from my extensive library, rent it via Amazon, or watch one on Netflix more designed for the young viewer. Occasionally I am drawn by a film on television on one of the movie channels and this occasion was last week’s In a Lonely Place. I was influenced by a strong cast of [...]

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Mercury Pictures Presents/Anthony Marra

I was disappointed by this book, which promised to be about a B-movie Hollywood studio in the late 1930s and early 1940s, a subject of great interest to me. In fact, but it was more about a film executive Maria Lagana, whose father – a Roman human rights lawyer – was exiled by [...]

August 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

adieu Bob Rafelson

I was saddened to learn of the death of Bob Rafelson. His movie career as a director was probably more down than up but he can lay claim to be the originator of the Indie in Easy Rider and making the career of one of its then unknown stars, Jack Nicholson. My favourite Rafelson film was Five Easy [...]

August 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected was a series made on the late 1970s and 80s which has now resurfaced on Sky Arts as an afternoon filler. I find it oddly addictive. Each episode is 30 minutes long and invariably contains a clever twist. The executive producer was John Woolf. He and his brother formed [...]

July 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Platinum Jubilee Celebrations – a National Rust view

We asked our correspondents in various fields for their views on last weekend’s Celebrations. SPORT I thought sport was underrepresented. We have had three World Cup wins by men during Her Majesty’s reign – in Football, Cricket and Rugby Union. Women have won four in Cricket and 2 in [...]

June 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

About Schmidt (2002)

Any doubts you might have about the greatness of Jack Nicholson as an actor would be dispelled by this film. He is never type-cast but his persona was more as rebel in confrontation. Here he plays Warren Schmidt, a retired actuary in Nebraska, who buys a mobile home with the intention of travelling [...]

May 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Blue Angel (1930)

The Blue Angel ignited the film career of Marlene Dietrich, then aged 28, and her film career going nowhere. Just another struggling Berlin actress. Fortunately for her director Josef von Sternberg cast her in The Blue Angel a cooperation that was to make six films for Paramount and lift her to [...]

May 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Elmer Bernstein

Donald Macleod’s Composer of the Week on Radio 3 this week is the film composer Elmer Bernstein. His most famous score is The Magnificent Seven but he also  composed the scores for The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Sweet Smell of [...]

April 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

Muhammad Ali/Ken BurnsBBC2

Ken Burns, the American documentary maker, is a man much admired on the Rust.    You pretty much know that any documentary by him will be well-researched, non judgmental and have excellent footage and interviews. This 8-parter on arguably the biggest figure in sport ever was no exception. The [...]

April 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

Where diversity and reality meet …

Both contributors to this organ and its followers know that the Rust’s mission statement is built around its stance of providing a “window upon the world” from the point of view of those of us who have passed beyond “the first flush of youth” yet retain possess an independence of mind and [...]

March 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

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