Aug
04
WINTERREISE IM SOMMER
It seemed an odd yet canny piece of concert programming by the Three Choirs Festival to present Franz Schubert'
2 min read
Digital Renegade
Aug
03
I, MAX
Smokescreen
There's been a lot of talk of late about the format and presentation of movies at cinemas
7 min read
Jul
23
TOO SAD FOR THE HUMAN HEART
There are some films that are almost too sad for the human heart to bear. Fellini's La Strada
3 min read
Jul
13
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME
“If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories
11 min read
Jun
24
GENTLE BE THE BREEZE
So far, during this week's punishing heatwave (at least for most of us uninitiated natives of Britain), coinciding
2 min read
Jun
17
THE IBRAHIM CHORDS
Water From An Ancient well
Great musicians take you home, even to places you didn’t know were your home,
3 min read
Jun
15
IT'S JIMI, I MEAN RITCHIE
My Tourette's friend always refers to him as "Art Garfunkel Brow", but to me he'
2 min read
Jun
13
LIEBESTOD
The legendary British artist David Hockney, with his smoker’s laugh, always reminded me, for some reason, of my dear
1 min read
Jun
08
CHAMPION
Let's have a toast for the douche bags
Let's have a toast for the assholes
Let&
2 min read
May
26
CHAS
There are some people you meet in life who do not need to be on a cinema screen to make
3 min read