For several years now, YouTuber Nando v Movies has been assembling playlists brining critical analysts together around a designated prompt. Here are my earlier contributions for One Villainous Scene and One Musical Scene. This year he’s wrapping up the game with an appropriately-themed One Last Scene. Naturally, my mind went to Titus Andronicus, the play […]
YouTuber Nando v Movies is still bringing it, with his series of event playlists proposing a theme for video essayists to analysis an aspect of movies and other shows. Previous years have seen “One Marvellous Scene“, “One X-cellent Scene“, and last year, “One Villainous Scene“, which was the first time I attempted a contribution (on […]
I remember going to see the Merchant Ivory adaptation of Howards End at the cinema. I knew it had only just come out, so I was puzzled by the feeling that I’d seen it before. I realised it was simply that the film captured the image of the book that was in my head so […]
“He is the bluntest wooer in Christendom.” Shakespeare wrote eight history plays about the Wars of the Roses. Richard III, Henry V and Part 1 of Henry IV get plenty of showings, still. The others languish in varying degrees of obscurity. The tragedy of these histories is that there is so much good stuff that […]
Anna Kamaralli 