A LONG LOST LOVE: AUGUST
“A boy’s will is the wind’s will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “I was never so sure of anything in my life. The moment you left me, I knew I must find you again, quickly. I’ve found you, and I’ll
A ROAD OF NO RETURN: MAY
In life, it often is said, there’re two types of people. On the one hand, there are those that wake up everyday just to throw open the windows and let in ‘la vie en rose’, and then on the other hand there’re those that don’t. Or, at least so said a
A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, PART II: APRIL
“I live with this movie every day of my life.” – Martin Scorsese Imagine my curiosity when Martin Scorsese said of a miscellaneous Italian flick: “I live with this movie every day of my life”. What does that even mean? I had, at the time of reading, watched only one of
A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: MARCH
“We were the Leopards, the Lions, those who’ll take our place will be jackals, hyaenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, Lions, jackals and sheep, we’ll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.” – Prince Don Fabrizio Salina ‘The Leopa
A LOVE FOR ALL TIME: FEBRUARY
“I don’t want you to go away. I just said that. You go if you want to. But hurry right back. Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.” – Ernest Hemingway There’s a moment at the tail end of ‘History Is Made at Night’, when our two le
A MAN & HIS MACHINE: JANUARY
“When you’re racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.” The label of ‘flawed masterpiece’ is a curious one. Although romantic in nature and revealing of its label maker, given that the crowning of a masterpiece is more binary tha
The Greatest Shot in Film
Preface What is the greatest shot in film? Aside from being a hard question with an easy answer, it is an important one, a question of morality. If you’d have asked me on any given day since the turn of the twenties, “That one shot, from that one film, by that one-eyed John [&helli
THE BIG SLEEP: PROGRAMME NOTE
“Nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.” Audiences attending this 1946 film noir classic, ’The Big Sleep’, off the back of Raymond Chandler’s novel, will likely be disappointed – in it they will not find the Phillip Marlowe that Chandler penned s
THE REBEL: PETER BOGDANOVICH
“There are no ‘old’ movies. Only movies you have already seen and ones you haven’t.” Much has been written about Peter Bogdanovich in the last few years, but curiously little has been added to the books of film history since his death, last year, on January 6th.