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‘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

Getting to the nub of it

Sometimes I get a little confused, when I alight upon a rather smart aphorism, as to whether I’ve heard it elsewhere – e.g. via a quotation or written extract from a literary great, a politician, celebrity film star or artist, philosopher, wit or comedian – or I actually came up with myself. [...]

January 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Berlin 36

The 1936 Berlin Olympiad is rightly remembered for the feats of Jesse Owens who so embarrassed Hitler that he walked out of the stadium. There was another lesser known story of racial prejudice and  confused, indeed contrived gender, recorded in the 2010 film Berlin 36. I saw the film on Netflix [...]

January 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Man Who Fell To Earth

I had just got up yesterday, nipped across the road to buy my newspapers and returned to make a cup of tea when – switching the BBC1 morning show on the television – I first caught the news about the passing of rock star David Bowie. For the rest of the day it seemed as if the UK airwaves had [...]

January 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Struggling to keep up

Many years ago [I just looked it up on Google and saw it was launched in 1999] there was a futuristic science fiction film called The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves, which was very cleverly produced and featured new special effects, including ‘bullet time’, in which – via mixing footage [...]

January 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nobless oblige on film

Yesterday afternoon – because there was nothing else on television – I sat down with my 90 year-old father to watch the drama-documentary film The Queen [2006 – starring Helen Mirren, script by Peter Morgan, directed by Stephen Frears] on ITV1, with Martin Sheen in the main supporting [...]

December 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

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