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This far is far enough

Several things about the modern world bug me and one of them is the political-correctness industry. If that makes me a fuddy-duddy then I’m happy to plead guilty. I like to think that I’m all for social development and I accept that often ‘ahead of their time’ campaigners have to challenge [...]

September 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

You see it your way, I’ll see it mine

Overnight I was both interested and intrigued to see a piece on the website of The Independent about the steps that the late actor/comedian Robin Williams has taken to secure his legacy or – to put it another way – prevent his image being exploited after his demise. Apparently, via legal [...]

April 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Still Alice (review)

As someone who is not a regular or frequent movie-viewer either at home or in the cinema, I was nevertheless moved yesterday to take a trip to my local multi-complex in order to join the proverbial three men and a dog to watch Still Alice, the drama in which Julianne Moore gives a BAFTA and [...]

March 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Keeping in touch

It sounds an obvious thing to state, but we are constantly learning things throughout our lives. As we age beyond fifty or so, it probably serves to remind ourselves occasionally that, if we ever stop learning stuff, it’s likely to be the case that we are beginning on the slippery road to being [...]

March 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Theory of Everything

Whilst no film buff like Neil Rosen I do enjoy a good biopic and I recently saw The Theory of Everything, being the life of Professor Steven Hawking. At first sight it’s rather an ambitious topic for a film. Beyond it being the theory of black holes, no one really comprehends Hawking’s [...]

February 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Hopeless hype

We are nine days away from the outdated annual ritual of Valentine’s Day – and before anyone suggests it, my somewhat jaundiced view of the tradition has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the last time my husband last ‘made a meal of it’ (literally or otherwise) was so long ago [...]

February 5, 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

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