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I saw Bert Stern's movie when I was seventeen. It was playing at the Screen on Baker Street. It didn't turn me on to any more jazz t...

I’m trying to remember when in the last twenty years I must have met Wim Wenders and why he would have been interested enough in my life to ...

There's a scene in a wonderful movie called Dinner Rush...    (Not this scene, but it gives you an idea how good a film this is) ...wh...

Recently I read Richard Weight’s best-selling book on the Mod Movement . I assume it was best-selling, since it was out on the tables at Wat...

It seems that Marvel Comics is going to make Iron Man a black female in the next series, and she’s modelled on and will be played by Rianna ...

I went to see The Assassin at the Curzon Bloomsbury (or “The Renoir” if you’re old-school) the other Saturday. The 11:00 AM showing. In the ...

(Inspired by Hadley Freeman’s book on 80’s movies, some of which she’s seen way too many times, and most of which were written and directed ...

Even five years ago I used to see at least one movie a week and often two. Hollywood blockbusters; American indie movies and Dogwoof documen...

I have no idea how anyone writes songs. I can extemporise instrumental music on the guitar, piano and recorder; I can write plays, have writ...

Over at Jeff Goldblum’s Laugh , they have a list of five movies guaranteed to set loose that self-pity that’s straining at the leash and bri...

I was watching the Stephen Bochco / Chris Gerolmo series Over There again recently.  In one episode, Brigid Brannagh's character explain...

So how do you make a movie about "growing up"? Trick question: you can't because there's no such process. You could make a...

There's a very badly-written film about how a group of men in their late twenties "grow up". Apparantly the original was a big...

Just what is it about Breakfast at Tiffany's and Holly Golightly? There's La Hepburn's look and performance, of course. There...

There's an article in this weekend's FT by Peter Aspden about the British films in the London Film Festival. He doesn't think mu...

I have a DVD shelf (rather early 2000's, I know) with what I loosely catagorise as “Cool” Movies. Quo Vadis Baby , Ghost Dog, Heat, The...

There was an interesting article about British TV drama in the FT a couple of weeks ago.  The starting point was The Wire  and why the BBC h...

You can point out that Sex and Drugs and Rock 'N Roll isn't a movie about music, it's a movie about a pop star - after all, why...

I saw Sex And Drugs And Rock 'N Roll  yesterday: it's supposed to be about Ian Dury. You can look up the details of his life here . ...

The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo If the French army ever had a colonel as lucid and objective as Colonel Mathieu, sent in to quash...