Friday, 8 December 2017

RIP, continued.

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Anthony Harvey (1930-2917), aged 87.   Harvey directed one of our perennial favourites THE LION IN WINTER in 1968, I remember seeing it...
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Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Strictly finalists ?

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Our 2017 season of  STRICTLY COME DANCING  is coming to a close, with the semi-final this weekend. Here are three sizzlers from last week...
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Saturday, 2 December 2017

Weekend photo miscellany

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Some of our favourites: Vitti, Stamp & Losey during MODESTY  BLAISE , Dirk and Ingrid when she was his house-guest in 1965...
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Thursday, 30 November 2017

The Wages of Fear / Sorcerer

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I realised the other day I had never seen Henri-George Clouzot's 1953 classic THE WAGES OF FEAR , that highly regarded thriller about...
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Sunday, 26 November 2017

Frantz, 2016

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In the aftermath of World Wa r I in 1919 Germany, Anna notice a stranger placing flowers on the grave of her fiance, Frantz. She now live...
Saturday, 25 November 2017

Period pieces 1: Miss Marple / Mapp & Lucia

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An investment for those long winter nights is a reasonably priced boxset of all 12 BBC Miss Marple stories featuring Joan Hickson as the in...
Wednesday, 22 November 2017

RIP, Jill Barklem & Brambly Hedge

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We we sorry too to hear of the death of childrens' graphic books writer and illustrator  Jill Barklem , at the early age of 66. I hav...

RIP, continued ...

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Rodney Bewes (1937-2017), aged 79.   Distinctive-looking British actor, best known for THE LIKELY LADS (1964-1966) and WHATEVER HAPPENE...
Sunday, 19 November 2017

New must sees ...

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Now the festival season is over and winter settling in, the new Award Season should be underway for the next Oscar ballyhoo in February. Th...

Revisiting old favourites ...

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I have written about these here several times, so no need to rehash them again, but its been a lot of fun revisiting QUENTIN DURWARD, JUST...
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Monday, 13 November 2017

Soldier of Fortune, 1955

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One of those little seen now adventure movies the studios churned out in the 1950s, usually teaming two stars (like John Wayne and Lana T...
Sunday, 12 November 2017

Under-rated directors: Clive Donner

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Like Desmond Davis (below) Clive Donner (1926-2010) also seems under-rated but directed a clutch of interesting films and tv movies during ...
Saturday, 11 November 2017

Under-rated directors: Desmond Davis

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Now in his 90s (born in 1926) Desmond Davis is surely one of Britain's most neglected film directors, who had a good run in the 1960s, ...
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Monday, 6 November 2017

1960s girls on London underground

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Julie Christie of course, and below: Brigitte Bardot, circa 1955, and a guy - me, in 1966 .... thankfully the tube is more modern now, ev...
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Jenny or Jenny ?

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Jenny Bowman or Jenny Stewart, that is. Both are legendary Broadway divas, very used to getting their own way.  Joan Crawford is Jenn...
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