Category Archives: Film

29 August 2018

The Old, the New and Venice Film Festival

Kirk Douglas at Venice Film Festival, 1953   I like timeless style, not vintage style. I like classic films, not old-fashioned films – incidentally, I regard ’70s films as classics as well (one of the best decades in cinema in … Read More →

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27 August 2018

Editorial: Easy to Photograph

  The Editorial: thoughts, short stories or essays about the world of cinema   Can anybody deny Grace Kelly’s beauty? It’s also true however that her beauty was the kind of ice-cool beauty that had nothing from the warm aura … Read More →

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23 August 2018

Shirt Stories: Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts in A Bigger Splash

    You always notice the person wearing a great shirt. A classic that holds just as much appeal as a perfect pair of jeans. Shirt Stories is about the men and women who wear it well, in movies or … Read More →

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16 August 2018

Gloria Grahame in Film Noir

  One of film noir’s most defining actors, Gloria Grahame brought her femme fatale characters a raw, vulnerable sensuality. She was not simply pretty. Her glamour and sexuality hid surprising, unexpected emotional registers. Her bad girls were human. Her characters … Read More →

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3 August 2018

Music from Jim Jarmusch Films: A Playlist

  I remember when I was watching Only Lovers Left Alive, a film that would ultimately capture my whole being, and the sequence with Yasmine Hamdan performing Hal occurred, towards the end of the movie. I’m not sure I can … Read More →

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