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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

Bastille Day

If you like high octane action films where you suspend belief on the plot this is for you. Idris  Elba plays a one man army (Briar) in Paris believing a pickpocket is not a terrorist. Young French Canadian actress Charlotte le Bon will not commit the bombing of right wing political headquarters [...]

April 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Films on the Riviera

Bob Tickler asked me to recommend films set on the Riviera to remind him of his recent successful trip there. I came up with To Catch a Thief the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock directed movie starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and the more recent Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Michael Caine and Steve Martin. [...]

April 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Big Short

The Big Short came highly recommended but by those who worked in and understood the financial world. For those like me who do neither it’s all somewhat confusing. As I understand it, or more accurately as Bob Tickler helpfully explained, American high risk mortgages called sub prime carried [...]

February 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

‘Ave yer got a light, boy?’

In the 21st Century the movie and theatre industries – indeed the arts generally – have to deal with all sorts of issues that never troubled the likes of Will Shakespeare. Think of the legislation, rules and received ‘good practice’ on animal cruelty and welfare (‘No [...]

February 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Casablanca

One of the tenets of the arts section of the Rust is that if something is popular then that that does not follow it’s of poor quality.  Thus Melanie Gay advocates Daphne du Maurier as novelist, Alice Mansfield, the painters Ted Seago and Ken Howard, who are not esteemed by the critics but [...]

February 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Spotlight

Readers will remember that I’m no fan of the American film industry since the original Star Wars. It’s too dominated by the creation of brand and sequels to avoid the $100m needed to market a new film; by a cartel of actors who demand a percentage of the box office for their [...]

February 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fill the Void

Israel does not have the film industry you might expect. One of the most unified countries in the world you might have thought it would produce films glorifying its past achievements but Exodus was made by Ottto Preminger and Raid on Entebbe by Irvin Kirschner. Famously at the premier of Exodus, a [...]

January 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hitchcock

Of all the genres, films about films I find the most entertaining. My favourite would be the Truffaut classic La Nuit Americaine  (Day for Night) in which Graham Greene makes an appearance and stars Jacqueline Bisset who made a fortune in real estate. Not far behind would be Le Mepris with the [...]

January 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Minder Revisited

The National Rust is big on seventies tv drama and rightly so. One of the pleasures for me is to spot a young actor who went on to a big career. On Monday in Minder Ray Winstone appeared as a jack the lad young van driver. Yesterday Robbie Coltrane played a wig manufacturer Mr Henry and you can see [...]

January 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Continental films at the Rosen Multiplex

The reason  why I prefer continental European films to American blockbusters is well illustrated by three films I took from Netflix over the festive period. Force Majeur is a Swedish film released in 2104. In what seems a perfect family unit of successful handsome father, kind mother and two [...]

December 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

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