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Read Instead…in Print
Satyajit Ray wrote his own dialogue (scored his films and often designed their publicity materials as well), but his films rose above the words, as he believed a film should be conveyed in images as much as possible. Satyajit Ray’s films are like that, striking this incredible balance between sound and image and containing moments of purely visual significance. Read More
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February Newsletter: Gone to Timbuktu, Yamamoto and The ‘59 Sound
The short films that we love more than feature films, the oral history of the recording of a masterpiece and the travel writes who sits down with writers, filmmakers and photographers to explore the art of travel and the place between Chatwin’s two Timbuktus. Read More
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Read Instead… in Print
Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker in complete control of his art, yet when he writes about his favourite films, he does it without the pretentiousness of the deep knowledge he masters. Cinema Speculation is about his personal choices. In this in this fake, politically correct, pretentious medium that cinema and society are struggling in at the moment, Tarantino’s book is a breath of fresh air. Read More
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January Newsletter: An Extraordinary Life, An Ordinary Man, and Finding Alain Delon
The Smiths have this image of an immovable Alain Delon on the floor on the cover of their The Queen Is Dead album. I have always been intrigued by that cover, and yet I didn’t want to look into it, I didn’t want to find out what film it was from, just waiting to one day come across the film and have that image reveal to me. I have finally come across that film. Read More
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December Books (from Patti Smith to Tarantino)
This December, there are quite a few great new books worth giving and receiving, and I couldn’t possibly start but with one: A Book of Days, by Patti Smith. Read More
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