“Whenever love touches history, events of the past belong to the present.” What a glorious pleasure it was to be immersed in The Earings of Madame De for an evening. The sumptuous filming, the beautiful costumes, the witty and sophisticated complex story line. The basic story is: a silly spoilt wife of a General sells […]
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Presents: The Oscar Wilde Collection
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Presents! Presents! Presents! I found this wonderful site with PDF’s to the Oscar Wilde Collection. All free. Enjoy!
Restless: Gus Van Sant’s take on death.
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Ok. I have a confession to make. Everyone who reads this blog is no stranger to the fact that I adore film. No – let’s do a take two on that – I adore good film. I’m not willing to say (as a very dear writer friend says to me regularly) that film has replaced […]
Salvatore Martirano: Ballad (1966)
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I’m placing this here just because I can. I am obsessed with this album at the moment – It’s number 6 in the Creel Pone list, the second post of which I am currently preparing. But I couldn’t wait to deliver this to you lucky folk now. It sends me direct to heaven this […]
The Black Herald #2: Freedom from the necessity of success – Part One.
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It is the ambitious hopes of editor poets Blandine Longre and Paul Stubbs that The Black Herald only publish works that are: “… vital and original, and above all else, might well incubate itself to the exterior world of publicity – though this is the hope of the editors, not necessarily the writers themselves.” They […]
Creel Pone: Set your mind free and your body will follow.
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According to Simon Reynolds (Writer for The Wire) Creel Pone is a mystery project that started around 2005. To the uninitiated music lover, but serious art lover, this project struck me as beautiful and exciting. For all I know, music lovers do this sort of thing all the time. UP until recently, I was a […]
Poet Paul Stubbs: the primordial cry.
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I’m reading The Black Herald #2 in preparation for a review. I wanted to share this quote by Paul Stubbs in his excellent introduction to the magazine (about which I will wax lyrical later) “… It must at all costs remain the brutal single-mindedness of the writer to endure and locate what Paul Celan described […]
We need to talk about Kevin: Cinematic quality in a sea of ambiguity.
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It’s been a bit of a film week for me. I saw We Need To Talk About Kevin, and I need to fess up right away that I haven’t read Lionel Shriver’s book. Nor do I intend to. I have nothing against Ms Shriver, but I read Room by Emma Donoghue and I will confess […]
The Ides of March: Bit of a yawn really.
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The Ides of March is a film full of ‘good moments’ and that is about the best you can say of it. It’s an old story / message – one we all know and suspect Clooney of harbouring. That is politics is tired and cynical itself; driven by a lust for the win rather than […]
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