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Lee movie (2023)

Yesterday I finally got to see Lee. Enjoyed would be the wrong word as her pictures of the campaign after the Normandy landings – and Dachau – were searing, but the film was impressive notably for the fine acting of Kate Winslet as Lee Miller. The film covers one year (1945) and one [...]

September 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

Cineworld

The heading above should have been Lee as I intended to see that film on its release date at the 5-00pm performance. However, on arrival at my local Cineworld, I was informed the projector had broken down and I had to go to another performance. It reminded me of the story about a reviewer who [...]

September 14, 2024 // 0 Comments

Jamaica Inn/Daphne du Maurier

oAfter reading non-fiction it was a pleasure to return to a Daphne du Maurier novel I had not read. Jamaica Inn showcases Daphne du Maurer’s ability as a writer: she can tell a good story and conveys a fine sense of location and atmosphere. The story’s heroine is 23 year old Mary Yellan [...]

September 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

Classic Movies/Sky Arts

This series, presented by Ian Nathan, has returned. No Dr Bonnie Greer, but instead a young American critic and film historian Christina Newland.  Neil Norman is also a regular but Steven Armstrong, the Sunday Times film critic, features only occasionally. The choice of movies is odd. The first [...]

September 6, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Third Man

The 75th anniversary of the launch of the classic movie The Third Man is being celebrated this month with a re-showing. What made this Alexander Korda/David Selznick collaboration, directed by Carol Reed – the illegitimate son of actor/producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree – so memorable? [...]

September 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

My sporting Saturday

Although there was no breakfast match , the Southern Hemisphere game between South Africa and New Zealand, which ended 31-27, was worth waiting for. I have already said the All Blacks are a work in progress under new Head Coach Scott Robertson – with no Brodie Retallack or Aaron Smith – [...]

September 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Joe Solomon and the Spirit of Mourant/Clem Seecharan

Port Mourant, a sugar plantation on the Corenyne Coast of Guyana, is a remarkable place as it has spawned 4 famous West Indian cricketers – Basil Butcher, Rohan Kanhai and Joe Solomon –  and later Alvin Kallicharan, a political leader Cheggi Jagan and the author Professor Clem [...]

August 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

Oliver!/Chichester Festival Theatre

Oliver! is an unusual basis for a musical as the story of Oliver Twist is heart-rendingly sad and grim till the ending. So much so that one friend of mine, though a lover of musicals, cannot bear to see it. The early scene in the workhouse and funeral parlour are so depressingly sad and young [...]

August 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

Marriages (on film and TV)

Having been married to my Rosie – or Roz as she is known – for 45 years I do give a lot of thought to long term matrimony. The best portrayal of a long marriage is that of Horace Rumpole to Hilda. The Rumpole series are shown on Talking Pictures and, irony of ironies given that the [...]

August 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

Quiz night

Monday night is “quiz night” on BBC2 and I’m a fan and follower. There are three quiz programmes: Mastermind, Only Connect and University Challenge. Of course such programmes have the advantage of being so cheap to broadcast: the only major cost is the presenter. However, there is [...]

August 21, 2024 // 0 Comments

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