At the BAFTAS last week, Stephen Fry confessed of having certain misgivings about seeing a film whose previous 29 instalments he had missed. Continue reading →
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On Cinema
Many an insomniac has found relief in the shape of late night cinema. I know a few former students who regularly drowse to the black and white films usually aired on TV at two in the morning. There is something about old Hollywood films, they claim, Continue reading →
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The French New Wave
The rash of young filmmakers that mushroomed across the French film scene in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s is often held responsible for the excesses that followed, culminating in pop music videos in the ‘90s, the increase in abstract films with no narratives or little sense, the overindulgence of directors and perhaps worse of all, nourishing youths with the false hope that anyone with a video camera could become a filmmaker – to the mental anguish and physical distress of audiences everywhere. Continue reading →
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James Bond
The name “James Bond” does not immediately conjure visions of incompetence, physical lethargy and psychological frailty in the average filmgoer’s mind. Continue reading →
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Film Critics…An endangered species
Popcorn, soda, the smell of butter in the air, the clink of ice cubes in drinks, aisle seats, air conditioning on hot summer days, privacy with one’s lover, escape from school…
The cinema will always mean different things to different people. But for the film critic, who is by definition a cinephile, the perpetual nighttime of the cinema hall is her home. Continue reading →
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