Showing posts with label 1990s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1990s. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 July 2017

Nineties Nu-Soul Queens ...

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For the weekend: a look back at those new '90s music divas  with their funky grooves that got us going then - line them up: Des'Re...
Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Postcards from the edge

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Another visit to La La Land with a return to 1990's POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE , Mike Nichol's satisfying comedy drama from Carrie F...
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Sunday, 9 October 2016

Jeanne and the perfect guy

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Another French flick we had not heard of here in the UK, as presumably it never played here. I would have heard of it or read about it an...
Thursday, 8 September 2016

White Hunter Black Heart, 1990

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A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an elephant turns into a grim situation with his mo...
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Wednesday, 6 July 2016

The Gay Metropolis 1940-1996

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Weaving oral history with precise cultural analysis, THE GAY METROPOLIS is the definitive social, cultural and political history of gay l...
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Saturday, 9 April 2016

Persuasion, Persuasion, Persuasion ...

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I have just enjoyed the 1995 BBC production of Jane Austen's  PERSUASION (left)   once again, its a real film (by Roger Michell, of the ...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2015

To Indo-china and Japan via the sea wall ....

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I liked the French epic INDOCHINE a couple of years back, nice to see it again now, plus also that 1950s favourite of mine, Rene Clement...
Saturday, 13 June 2015

For the weekend ...

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Some widescreen early 1950s glamour - it doesn't get better than this: and a dance - which also defines its era. and a couple m...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

Design: 1970s 'sunshine pop' (& '90's Innocence)

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Colin sent me a link to this intriguing and very tuneful cover of Carole King's "I Feel The Earth Move" by a group, Desig...
Sunday, 3 May 2015

Tracey in the air, and Catherine too ...

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Seeing Tracey Ullman back on television here in the UK, in a hilarious chatshow interview with Paul O'Grady (Lily Savage that was) and ...
Friday, 20 March 2015

Party like its 1999 ...

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It looks like we won't be seeing the current eclipse, its too cloudy here in the London area, but it looks great on television from o...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Back to Philadelphia ...

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I suppose one had to go back there eventually. PHILADELPHIA was a key movie in 1993, a skillfully crafted drama bringing Aids into the...
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Monday, 16 March 2015

Lost in clubland - an occasional series

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Nightclub flier from the 1990s .... this was Heaven, in London. I've been wrecked there a few times myself! 
Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Bad things

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Before moving on to some classy repeats on television this week (Antonioni's THE PASSENGER and Haneke's AMOUR - I have covered th...
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Friday, 13 February 2015

Aretha's "Nessun Dorma"

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Many thanks to Mike in San Francisco for mentioning Aretha Franklin's version of Puccini's area " Nessun Dorma " (from TU...
Wednesday, 4 February 2015

The Age of Innocence, 1993

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I saw THE AGE OF INNOCENCE back in 1993 but had rather forgotten it and had certainly forgot how opulent and lush and sumptuous it looks...
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