Thursday, 20 December 2012

Martini movies: The Garment Jungle, 1957

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'Martini movies' are a new concept for me, but they are a series of dvds of pulpy noirs and gangster flicks, mainly from the ...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Jet Storm, 1959

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AIRPORT is of course the grand-daddy of bomb-on-airplane movies, but JET STORM a proficient little British thriller (all wrapped up in 8...
Saturday, 15 December 2012

'60s double bill: Bedazzled by Petulia

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I had not seen PETULIA since the '60s and always meant to return to it, so finally I have .... this 1968 comedy drama set in San F...
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

'60s double bill: In search of what's'isname ...

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1967 - London in the Swinging '60s, the Kings Road, the fashionable people, the mini-skirted dolly birds and the clothes and music - ...
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Saturday, 8 December 2012

R.I.P.s

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Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012), the architect, who has died aged 104, was best known as the designer of Brasilia, the daringly futuristic ...

Man of La Mancha

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MAN OF LA MANCHA from 1972 seems a curiously overlooked musical, despite O'Toole and Loren I never wanted to see it at the time and...
Thursday, 6 December 2012

People We Like: Michael York

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I had been meaning to do a new round on 'People We Like' to cover Peter Finch, Alan Bates, David Warner, Dame Flora Robson and Vera...
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Terence, Federico & Toby Dammit

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An Edgar Allen Poe double bill: I had forgotten about SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES) from 1968, and I liked Roger Corma...