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SSGB

Often it is more accurate to review a new series after the second or third episode so I held back till I watched last Sunday’s second part of SSGB. The story is that the Nazis won the Battle of Britain, Churchill was executed and there was Nazi Occupation. This is well tramelled territory. In [...]

February 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

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Pargie’s betting philosophy and weekend

No contributor features in other columns more than me and our readers might think I am an addictive gambler. To draw an analogy I sometimes feel like the social drinker cast as an alcoholic – the type in denial that hides his booze around the home and talks of nothing else but getting drunk. [...]

February 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

More on cynical art dealing

After reading my post a friend sent me this article by Luke Johnson, the entrepreneur, on art dealing – THE TIMES It does share some points with my piece – notably that it’s an unregulated market and the naive collector should beware the dealer. I don’t agree with all of it [...]

February 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Shadow of a doubt? (He seems to have thought so)

Over the past number of years on the Rust I have occasionally made reference to or analysed the movies of Alfred Hitchcock, one of the greatest directors and film-makers of all time and of course British to boot. Despite this being the annual season of movie awards – now with the Oscars [...]

February 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Moonlight

One of the joys of writing for the Rust is that you can be controversial without fearing you might lose your job. In some journals or media outlets I would not dare say that Moonlight has benefited in its reviews because it has an all black cast. Yet I believe this to be so as the film’s [...]

February 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Still going … but aren’t we all?

On Monday, having seen various positive or better newspaper arts reviews of the new Ryan Adams CD Prisoner, I went onto the Amazon website and bought myself a copy – which duly arrived yesterday. Adams and I have a little bit of history. He was originally in a band called Whiskeytown that [...]

February 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Meeting Ken Howard

I always enjoy the company of artist Ken Howard with whom I had dinner the other night at the Chelsea Arts Club. 85 years young he is still has a prodigious output mainly of places he has just visited. Known chiefly as a painter of light and use of contre jour technique (against the daylight) he is [...]

February 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

And the Academy award goes to….

In France unlike the UK cinema criticism is a serious business. The whole new wave movement which generated Jean Luc Godard, Francos Truffaut and Alain Resnais to name but three emanated from the film review magazine Les Cahiers du Cinema. Here celebrity interviewers like Jonathan Ross have their [...]

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Carry On Barging (Channel 5 Friday 8-30)

When I joined the Rust I made it clear I was not going to review celebrity/ reality tv programmes as I do not watch them. However a few years ago I met Lorraine Chase at a health farm of all places (as she is so slender) and we kept in touch. On a whim I emailed her yesterday and she replied with [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Music matters

I used to be an avid follower of pop music till the 1980s but now have moved to classical music. It took a bit of time to discover in the broad spectrum of classical music what I particularly enjoyed. That turned out to be compositions based on folklore like Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances or [...]

February 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

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