Sep
22
DAS RHEINGOLD, DON GIOVANNI & THE BRAND INQUISITORS
"The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free." -
4 min read
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Sep
17
SMILES OF A BERGMAN NIGHT
"It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night;
4 min read
Sep
16
THE NAKED ISLAND
No man, woman or child is an island, perhaps, but in Kaneto Shindo's 'The Naked Island'
2 min read
Sep
11
9/11 BLUES
“New York was his town and it always would be." - Issac Davis (Woody Allen)
I remember staying up
3 min read
Sep
09
LA PICCOLA BELLEZZA (THE LITTLE BEAUTY)
It was Sorrentino's 'La Grande Bellezza' on a microbudget and instead of the rooftops of Rome,
4 min read
Sep
05
TAKEAWAY HIDEAWAY AKA THE LAST ORDER
Michael Chow was just about to close up his takeaway, 'Chow's Chows', on a 'slow
7 min read
Sep
04
FIGHTING PRIVILEGE
"There is no wealth but life." - John Ruskin
As far as I understand the general narrative trope
3 min read
Sep
01
STRANGER IN THE NIGHT
Ten summers on from that final college dance with Jill, Sheik wondered if he was even remotely the same person
8 min read
Aug
27
I DID IT MY WAY
Dear Subscribers,
And now the end is here
And so I face that final curtain
My friends I'll
4 min read
Aug
27
TOP 10 BILLY WILDER FILMS OF ALL TIME (RANKED)
"I don't believe in God. I just believe in Billy Wilder." - Fernando Trueba
And funnily
15 min read