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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

Worth another airing

Rust readers may like to file this one under the heading Iconic Moments From The Past – or just sit back, relax and briefly enjoy the simple 90-second footage and perhaps other personal memories that it brings to mind – but the story behind ‘The Gorilla Playing The Drums’ [...]

January 7, 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

Keeping an eye open/ Essays on Art Julian Barnes

As Julian Barnes himself admits, writing about something visual in art is not just difficult but, in some people eyes notably Degas , worthless. His essays have however been critically acclaimed and I was curious to read them.  Where would they be pitched: at the cognoscenti, the literati, or the [...]

December 30, 2015 // 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

Continental films at the Rosen Multiplex

The reason  why I prefer continental European films to American blockbusters is well illustrated by three films I took from Netflix over the festive period. Force Majeur is a Swedish film released in 2104. In what seems a perfect family unit of successful handsome father, kind mother and two [...]

December 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Private’s Progress and I’m All Right Jack

Although Private’s Progress was made in 1956 and I’m All Right Jack three years later the latter is a sequel of the former. Both were directed by the Boulting Brothers, scripted by Antony Hackney and many of the cast played the same characters in both: Ian Carmichael as Stanley [...]

December 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

It’s probably a personal thing, and perhaps it was ever thus, but there doesn’t appear to be much happening this Christmas. Okay, there’s a lot of rain falling – or threatened – in Cumbria, some elderly gentleman has accidentally put his car through a Costas coffee house window in [...]

December 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Flame and Citron

A topic that comes up regularly on the Rust is how we oldies never appreciate the full potential of our computerised appliances. Some time ago I acquired a state of the art Smart television. The installer explained how I could do my emails on it but I confess it all went over my head. Recently [...]

December 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

An excellent piece of television

This is not a regular habit of mine I promise, but earlier this morning – having read the broadsheet reviews of Tuesday night’s television programming in which it seemingly received 4 stars out of 5 all round – I deliberately took up my zapper and negotiated through my cable company’s [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

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