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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

The Third Man

When Ned  Sherrin  presented Loose Ends it was groundbreaking for the the rather twee radio 4. One part of the programme was devoted to “the authentication of tall tales”. Such authentication would make a programme in itself for the cinema as so many such tales have grown. One of the [...]

June 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Graham Greene and the cinema

I cannot think of any writer who has had a more profound effect on the cinema than Graham Greene. Many of his stories were filmed, he wrote screenplays, he was a film critic of The Spectator and he even appeared as an insurance broker in Truffaut’s  Day for Night. He is perhaps best known [...]

May 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Goldfinger

We were all exhausted by the election in the Rosen household so Gail deemed a night in with the kids obligatory. I was given the role of choosing a film for all. I was deliberating over the American screwball comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World  when I saw Goldfinger was on ITV at 8 pm. [...]

May 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

A sad anniversary

Today is the second anniversary of my father’s passing. At a party given by Nancy Bright Thompson I met a close friend of Polly, Grania. She is a councillor for Samaritans and told me that a common call is from a bereaved who feels he/she is out of time and does not feel able to raise the [...]

April 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Film critics

I am not a huge fan of Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. They are rather too pleased with themselves and listening to them there is more of a banter – and not a very funny one – between them and less of an informed analysis of films. In France film criticism is taken far more seriously. The [...]

January 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Zulu

We film buffs are a funny lot. We like nothing better than to criticise and show off our knowledge. So let me say that the assessment of Zulu in yesterday’s Rust was enthusiastic and fairly accurate. There were a few omissions. The Zulus ran 48 miles with assegais on their back after [...]

December 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Love Me or Leave Me

Yesterday I was at home all day and unusually neither my missus Gail nor our kids found me jobs round the house or for the grandchildren. So I sat down in my favourite armchair to see what the film channels had on offer. I was not disappointed as Film on Four scheduled Love me or Leave Me, The [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sir Nicky Winton

There are not many people that have heard that of Sir Nicholas Winton which is what he would have wanted. Yet this man saved 664 lives directly and 15000 indirectly and never told a soul: not even his wife or the people he saved. A successful stockbroker he took 2 weeks off in 1938 to organise the [...]

November 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Third Man Tour

The Third Man is regarded as probably the finest British movie of the twentieth century. I would only put Zulu, Get Carter, The Long Good Friday, The Full Monty, Kind Hearts and Coronets and Lawrence of Arabia in the same bracket. I was always interested in doing the tour and required little [...]

November 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Killing of Sister George

In preparation of a list of gay movies I am shortly circulating I watched last night the DVD of the Robert Aldrich adaptation of the Frank Marcus’ play. At first blush, it was strange that the director of The Dirty Dozen should sell his stake in that film to finance his own studio to make [...]

October 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

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