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 […]
Earlier this year I spent some time in the recording studio with Sylvia Rosenblum, host of Arts Wednesday on Eastside Radio. We talked about the way that film and stage productions costume their cast to represent a particular period. There are 7 episodes, each about 12 minutes long. You can listen to them in podcast […]
YouTuber Nando v Movies is the innovator behind a fabulous series of event playlists, where he invited video essayists to choose one scene in a movie or series to analyse, and speak to its virtues. Previous years have seen “One Marvellous Scene” and “One X-cellent Scene“. This time around it’s “One Villainous Scene”, that is, […]
In keeping with my impeccable record for writing thinkpieces on pop culture just a little bit after the time everyone was talking about it, I have some thoughts on The Queen’s Gambit, which I’ve decided to mash up with some responses to Bridgerton and also The Great. While this is somewhat about historic period costume […]
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