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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

David Niven

It’s become some thing of a ritual in the Rosen household on bank holiday for me to identify a classic film for the family. Looking down the schedules the best I could find was Jason and the Argonauts which I remember for its special effects that some 50 year later in the age of such [...]

May 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Shadow of a doubt? (He seems to have thought so)

Over the past number of years on the Rust I have occasionally made reference to or analysed the movies of Alfred Hitchcock, one of the greatest directors and film-makers of all time and of course British to boot. Despite this being the annual season of movie awards – now with the Oscars [...]

February 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Moonlight

One of the joys of writing for the Rust is that you can be controversial without fearing you might lose your job. In some journals or media outlets I would not dare say that Moonlight has benefited in its reviews because it has an all black cast. Yet I believe this to be so as the film’s [...]

February 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

And the Academy award goes to….

In France unlike the UK cinema criticism is a serious business. The whole new wave movement which generated Jean Luc Godard, Francos Truffaut and Alain Resnais to name but three emanated from the film review magazine Les Cahiers du Cinema. Here celebrity interviewers like Jonathan Ross have their [...]

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Taking a well-deserved bow

Generally I am not a great fan of self-congratulatory showbiz entertainment awards evenings, especially British ones, because as a nation we are too self-effacing to embrace the process with the unashamed brio and sense of elan required for them to ‘work’ as events. Our American [...]

February 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Jackie

All the trailers of films prior to Jackie bore the words “based on a true story.” Jackie covers “the true story” of the three days of Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of her husband. I put the words in inverted commas as I question its accuracy but even more I question [...]

January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Lalaland- worth 7 Golden Globes?

The short answer is no. To justify these accolades a musical must have a better score and Lalaland barely has one memorable song. Think of the great MGM musicals of the fifties, Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady, Gigi and the songs are memorable. The much and justifiably revived Oliver! does not [...]

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Crown

Seeing a reference to Claire Foy in Bob Tickler’s rant sorry crafted piece inspired me to watch the series The Crown on Netflix. This proved to be no easy matter. Netflix appears in the Home Page after the TV switches on and then disappears. My wife Gail and I had various attempts at [...]

January 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

3 classic films.

Making a long haul flight and seeing the menu of films on offer I chose 3 classics of cinema. When I see such a classic, often for the umpteenth time, I look for some new theme, get drawn in anyway and leave it identifying a theme I did not anticipate. All thus happened in the three I chose:   [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

House of Cards ( US version)

I have been a bit late on Netflix, indeed if they did not inform me that after I cancelled a credit card they had difficulty in taking my sub, I would not even had known it was feature of my tv package. I have seen most of their scanty international films and enjoyed Marseilles. So recalling the UK [...]

December 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

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