Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Favourite movie stills .... an occasional series.

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1950s:  EAST OF EDEN: More on Dean, Richard Davalos and Julie Harris at labels .....  1960s: BLOW-UP - David and Vanessa and that per...

Jeremy Spenser ?

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Those old film magazines I have been acquiring, " Films and Filming " had a monthly column on a Person of Promise , which high-...
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Monday, 13 April 2015

Angela !

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Dame Angela Lansbury - how does she keep on going? She was very spry and marvellous at those Olivier Awards in London (screened here last...
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The ones that got away ... *

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I have been, as mentioned previously, tracking down 1950s issues of British film magazine " Films and Filming " - a magazine I g...
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Recent RIPs .....

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Jackie Trent (1940-2015), aged 74. Terrific British singer and songwriter, was married to Tony Hatch. Cynthia Lennon (1939-2015), age...
Saturday, 11 April 2015

Joan Armatrading and those '70s albums

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Forty years of Joan Armatrading! For a singer-songwriter-musician who began in the 1970s she seems to improve like good wine. She is now ...
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Friday, 10 April 2015

Jimmy and Smalltown Boy again & Markus too

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80s survivor and singer extraordinaire Jimmy Somerville is back with a new disco album ( HOMAGE , which I have just ordered), and today h...
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Modesty, again.

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More 1966 - to complement the documentary on BLOW-UP locations, below , from yesterday, here is the trailer for Losey's misunderst...
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Thursday, 9 April 2015

Blow-Up locations documentary

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I am overjoyed to discover this 16 minute documentary by Daniel Ammeter on YouTube . Thanks to Colin for sending me the details. I have a...
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Into the woods with the foxcatcher ...

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Is Stephen Sondheim on a roll or what, after all these decades ? INTO THE WOODS has been in the cinemas and is due on dvd; ASSASSINS rec...
Wednesday, 8 April 2015

The taxi driver scores an ace in the hole

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Or The Chuck Tatum /Travis Bickle show ... Watching two searing dramas one after the other left one limp on the sofa. I had not seen Bi...