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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

Private’s Progress and I’m All Right Jack

Although Private’s Progress was made in 1956 and I’m All Right Jack three years later the latter is a sequel of the former. Both were directed by the Boulting Brothers, scripted by Antony Hackney and many of the cast played the same characters in both: Ian Carmichael as Stanley [...]

December 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Naked Truth

It falls to me over the festive period to organise the film selection for our family. Now we have grandchildren too, finding films that suit all is no easy task.  This year I decided to go for Brtish comedies 1958-1962. Two comedians dominated that era, Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas and last [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Star Wars/ a contrarian view

I remember well going to see Star Wars in 1976 at the Empire Leicester Square. It was visually an exciting film, launched the career of Harrison Ford,whose furrowed brow enhanced many a blockbuster, and theatrical knight Sir Alec Guinness finally made some money out of his distinguished career. So [...]

December 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Bridge of Spies

Our editor is keen that we relay the experience of our field be it a restaurant dining or watching sport on tv or at the stadium. Thus Richard said to me “Neil, don’t go to the press viewing of Bridge of Spies, as you will be at the mercy of the marketing people and the critic’ [...]

December 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Lady In The Van

A film about a writer Alan Bennett caring for his demented mother and a homeless woman in a van who resides in his driveway for 15 years is hardly the stuff of box office success but nonetheless a refreshing and welcome break from the Hollywood blockbusters and the violence of Respect or of Mexican [...]

November 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Poster Art

A week or so ago I received a call from the Rust‘s resident expert on sports memorabilia Ivan Conway that there was a online auction by Christies of early James Bond ‘s film posters. He remembered I had one and thought it was the same as one of the lots. I duly checked and it was. I [...]

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sometimes violence is the only way

The comedian Jackie Mason has many observations about his Jewish race and one is its lack of violence. As he puts it, if you were walking down the street and saw 4 Jewish accountants approaching  you you would not cross over to the other side. However it was not always thus as in the late 1940s [...]

October 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Machals

America has come in for criticism over the years as an interventionist imperialist state and Israel as the oppressive bully boy of the Middle East but it was not always thus. In 1948 with the approval of the United Nations the state of Israel was formed and promptly invaded by their Arab [...]

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Operation Thunderbolt/ Saul David

Saul David’s account of the raid on Entebbe airport by Israeli commandos in July 1976, known as Operation Thunderbolt, has rightly received glowing reviews. I was particularly interested to compare it to the film Raid on Entebbe one of two films made immediately after the successful operation [...]

July 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Passing of a very great man

In 1938 Nicholas Winton a 29 year old London stockbroker decided on a whim to travel to Prague to see what he could to save the lives of people mainly Jews threatened by the Nazis. That decision was to save the lives of 669 children he organised onto trains to London. That would qualify him for the [...]

July 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

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