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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

Films in the sky

There are those who cannot bear flying but I love being in that parallel world that lacks time and location being pampered and above all watching films. Thus it was that I had to make a 7 hour and then 5 hour flight on Emirates and the first thing I looked for on the entertainment screen was the [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Marseille

I  have yet to maximise the potential of Netflix as I am put off by any American movie mogul company. However after catching the excellent US Presidency documentary which I reviewed I decided to investigate further. I was talking about Gerard Depardieu to a French friend  of mine and she [...]

November 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON

Abel Gance’s epic 1927 movie Napoleon is one of the most famous, important and influential movies of all time. Way back in the 1980s I went to see a ‘live’ performance of a restored version of it (with original new accompanying music by Carl Davis) staged in London by Thames [...]

November 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

How To Win The US Presidency

Last night I watched a documentary called and on HOW TO WIN THE US PRESIDENCY.  In surveying the Presidents from Washington to Obama, though referred to the 46th President Donald Trump, the programme identified the following requirements to reach the Oval Office: 1) Money 2) Message 3) Look 4) [...]

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

From Russia With Love

The intriguing story in yesterday’s Telegraph of Enigma references in Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love and the normal disappointing Monday tv fare persuaded me to watch the film version last night. They say the definition of a classic film is you start watching it, possibly one you [...]

October 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

A MAGNIFICENT MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

It’s an accepted truism that a remake is never an improvement on the original so I went to the 2016 version of the The Magnificent Seven with some considerable trepidation. The original John Sturges version starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz and [...]

September 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hollywood tales

Spotted today on the website of The Guardian, this article by Nell Frizzell on the podcaster Karina Longworth who specialises in amassing tales of the Hollywood golden era – see here – THE [...]

July 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

All the Way

There has been quite a shift in film making from the big studios to film companies producing blockbusters to HBO. Talking to someone in the industry, it is a question of finance.  It can cost a fortune to land a box office star, add in a massive marketing budget and the film company is hoping [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Burt Kwouk

I was saddened to learn of the death of Burt Kwouk aged 86. His career began in the fifties with Hancock’s Half Hour and he was always in work typecast as the Oriental. He could do humour as in the Pink Panther movies or sinister as in Tenko and Goldfinger with equal capability. As with many [...]

May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Eye in the Sky

If Bastille Day left me without any after taste of thought, you could not say the same with Eye in the Sky a film that was troubling in the issues it raised. In brief a combined US, British and Kenyan military operation has to evaluate whether a drone missile should destroy a house inNarobi [...]

April 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

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