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Autumn Reading List

  It starts to look like autumn and I love soaking up each ray of sunlight left, enjoy the leaves’ changing colour, take one last chance to appreciate nature properly until the cold settles in, and finally be able to … Read More →

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A One Woman’s Homage to the Flyer’s Jacket

Hers is the glamour of an adventurer who stirs your imagination with her game-changing style, while learning to love Africa. In Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient (1996), Kristin Scott Thomas plays Katharine Clifton, a British who goes to Northern Africa … Read More →

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Editorial: American Comedy

  The Editorial: thoughts, short stories or essays about the world of cinema   The extraordinary thing about classic American comedies, and, by that, of course, I refer to the likes of Lubitsch, Capra, Cukor and Sturges, or Howard Hawks’ … Read More →

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The Podcasts I Am Listening to This Fall

On a recent flight I started to catch up with two of my favourite podcasts and discovered another one, too, in the process, so here are the three podcasts (I believe in quality, not quantity) I am planning to keep … Read More →

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Ready for Autumn: Best Windbreakers in Film

Clint Eastwood in “Dirty Harry” (1971) | Warner Brothers, The Malpaso Company   As the leaves begin to go earthward and our evenings tend to become more and more homebound, we are slowly regaining our sense of style. Yesterday was … Read More →

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