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About Neil Rosen

Neil went to the City of London School and Manchester University graduating with a 1st in economics. After a brief stint in accountancy, Neil emigrated to a kibbutz In Israel. His articles on the burgeoning Israeli film industry earned comparisons to Truffaut and Godard in Cahiers du Cinema. Now one of the world's leading film critics and moderators at film Festivals Neil has written definitively in his book Kosher Nostra on Jewish post war actors. Neil lives with his family in North London. More Posts

400 Blows/1959

After rather binging on Hollywood, it’s time for a change and what better to revisit than the French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s? Quartre Cents Coups  (400 Blows) was Franois Truffaut’s directorial debut aged 27 and is rightly revered as a classic. The story is of 14 year old Antone [...]

January 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

An Affair to Remember (1957)

More than any other star, writers like to dish the dirt on Cary Grant, the lead in Affair to Remember.   At various times I have read he was flagrantly gay as he shared a house with Randolph Scott, his real name was Archie Leach, he was a Nazi spy and – unknown to him – his mother was [...]

January 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

7 Days In Entebbe (2018)

This is the third film I have seen on the Israeli raid on Entebbe in 1976 and much the worst. The opening shot defined the film: it is of a modern dance troupe sitting in a circle singing an Israeli song when one falls from her chair. The film frequently returns to this dance troupe particularly [...]

January 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

Tea with Mussolini

Stefano Ursolini writes: Neil Rosen asked for my comments on this film directed by that eminent Florentine Franco Zeffirelli. It depicts his youth. He was the illegitimate son of a Florentine businessman who ran way aged 16 to join the partisans and enlisted with the Scots Guards in the difficult [...]

January 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

Memories are not made of this

A frequent concern of Rusters and many seniors is forgetfulness. Is this just a senior moment or the first signs of dementia? On Christmas Eve I wanted to see Cast a Giant Shadow the stirring story of Micky Marcus (Kirk Douglas) who had decorated war service for the US Army afte the Normandy [...]

December 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Robert Mitchum

Everyone has their favourite actor for whatever reason and mine is Robert Mitchum. Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy might well be considered better film actors so why Mitchum? In brief, his personality. This was revealed in the BBC 2 series Talking Pictures basically archival [...]

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Annie Hall 1977

The Diane Keaton/Woody Allen season continues at the Rosen Multiplex with Annie Hall.  I was particularly interested to see if it was now dated. It had not due to the humour of the lines and the vivacious Diana Keaton. After this film Woody Allen became more and more self-absorbed, showing his [...]

November 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Last week I watched an excellent portrait of actress Diane Keaton in the Sky Arts Discovering series. It was so good that I was inspired to view again Manhattan Murder Mystery and Godfather Part Two. Manhattan Murder Mystery works on many levels not least a murder investigation. Larry Lipman [...]

November 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

Mr Wilder & Me/Jonathan Coe

You do not have to read a biography by a film critic to appreciate a legendary director as this novel which I finished yesterday by audio book confirms. Jonathan Coe The narrator is a Greek girl called Calista who when she first meets Billy Wilder in the late 1970s has never heard of him. Later she [...]

November 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

Fedora/Billy Wilder

I am reading a novel by Jonathan Coe called Mr. Wilder and Me. The narrator works in the film world and in chapter two she recalls a dinner in Hollywood in the 70s with the renowned director Billy Wilder who knows the father of her travelling companion. Billy Wilder was making the film Fedora [...]

November 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

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