Saturday, 1 November 2025

Twin Peaks Season 1

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  It was the obituary and lead article in the March 2025 Edition of Sight and Sound magazine that made me think about David Lynch (see post ...
Friday, 31 October 2025

Classic Movies on Sky Arts - Series 4 Episode 2 - The Story of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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  On Tuesday 17th December 2024 under the title "The Films of Powell and Pressburger", I reviewed a film I had just seen; The Life...
Thursday, 30 October 2025

My Shakespeare by Greg Doran - Parts 13 - 15

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  Part 13   Othello   - 2004: Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon; Japan Tour; Trafalgar Studios, London "Tony and I had been thinking ab...
Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Classic Movies on Sky Arts - Series 4 Episode 1 - The Story of the 39 Steps

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Ian Nathan introduces the new series with a film that is "classic Hitchcock". Christina Newland says how it is "hugely influe...

One Battle After Another, The Corpse Bride and Springsteen, Deliver Me From Nowhere

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  I almost avoided One Battle After Another when I found it was two and a half hours long. But I'm very glad I gritted my teeth as this ...
Monday, 27 October 2025

Have You Seen ...? by David Thomson: My List So Far

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  I started watching films recommended by David Thomson in his book Have You Seen ...?  back in September 2022.  I actually listed seventy t...
Saturday, 25 October 2025

Tony Bennett Tribute

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  Friday Night is Music Night is on Radio 3 (our new go to station) at 7.30pm. This week it came live from Chichester Festival Theatre (wher...