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There is a film coming out shortly – Testament Of Youth – a new screen version of Vera Brittain’s memorable tale of her life and loves during WW1. As part of the publicity surrounding its launch, a good deal of media attention has been given to a new  biography of her – [...]

December 28, 2014 // 3 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

A classic movie

On Saturday 27th December at 3.55pm Zulu, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Cane, will be shown on Channel Four. National Rust’s esteemed film critic Neil Rosen has written about this iconic British movie previously but some hold that you can never have too much of a good thing and today I would [...]

December 24, 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

Cruising with Scarlet at 45,000 feet

Having departed on Monday from Heathrow for a ten-day tour of Singapore and Australia acting as wingman for my aged father, he and I duly reached our first port of call yesterday after a flight of thirteen hours and have spent our time since resting and acclimatizing ourselves. It is apparently the [...]

November 18, 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

Details count (sometimes)

Getting up at my usual unearthly hour today, I was mildly amused by Radio Five Live’s coverage of the Ofcom and BBC Trust rebuke for the amount of swearing let loose on air during the coverage of the BBC Big Weekend Event – see here for a report on the website of THE GUARDIAN In about 1980, [...]

October 21, 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

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

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