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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

The hare with amber eyes

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal is a book of which I have heard but never read. In November I am going Vienna to do The Third Man film tour so I decided to prep up and finally read it. I was not too sure if it was a work of fiction or fact or why it was esteemed so much prior to my [...]

October 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Gone Girl

 Those who have seen Gone Girl would have either read the book or not. I suspect the latter category would have enjoyed it more. I read Gilllian Lynne’s clever work early on before it became a best seller and was impressed. An unreliable narrator failed writer Nick Dunne recounts his story [...]

October 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Zulu

I first saw Zulu as a birthday treat in 1964 and it has remained one of my favourite films. The other afternoon, after subscribing to Netflicks and being disappointed by their American bias, I streamed Zulu as it would be five years since I last watched it. I was not disappointed. First and [...]

September 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Bad Timing (1980)

I have been invited to speak at the Third Man Museum in Vienna on Graham Greene’s Film World and this will be my first visit to the city. I had lunch with one of the most entertaining and informed contributors to my film lists, Michael Cole – whose daughter lives in Vienna – to [...]

August 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

The children of Israel

Israel is being castigated for the loss of children’s lives, but I came across this on a website. It details the heroic effort of the senior Israeli obstetrician of a  hospital in Ashdod which is bombed on almost a daily basis, saving the lives of Gaza babies. I wonder if Baroness Warsi can [...]

August 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Trial and error

In my youth I was never much of a Peter Sellers fan. My father considered him a fine mimic but doubted if his film legacy would last. I found neither the Goons nor Inspector Clouseau that amusing, but silly, unlike Prince Charles who reputedly laughed so much at a Goon show he wet his next door [...]

July 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Housemaid

Oriental cinema has often suffered from a martial arts image but it has made an important contribution to world cinema. This has much to do with the work of Ang Lee, who won multiple cinema awards  for Brokeback Mountain and is  one of the world’s most esteemed directors. Though born in [...]

July 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Pornographer

This French film, directed by Bertrand  Bonello, has generated controversy both sides of the channel as the British Film censors the BBFC have excised one shot to allow it a 18 certificate. The director is outraged. It raises that hardy perennial of what is art and what is porn? In this case the [...]

July 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming Home

In a period of 10 years American cinema produced some fine films hardhitting films about Vietnam: Apocalypse Now (1979), Good Morning Vietnam (1987) and Platoon (1986). Coming Home (1978) is not as remembered as much as the last three but, watching it recently, it engages more issues than the other [...]

June 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Wolf of Wall Street

An astute film buff I know suggested that, since I admired Taxi Driver and Goodfellas, I should abandon my prejudice of contemporary American cinema and see The Wolf of Wall Street. I was doing the weekly  shop when I saw the DVD and duly bought it. Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, it [...]

June 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

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