Category Archives: This summer we’re channelling
Stories from the Golden Pond
“On Golden Pond”, 1982. Universal Pictures On a stormy night, Ethel Thayer drives into the town near where she and her husband, Norman, have a summer lakeside house, gets hold of Charlie, the mailman and his boat (“Oh, Charlie, … Read More
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“He photographed what he saw in his mind’s eye”: David Lean, Venice, and Summertime
Photo: Katharine Hepburn and Gaetano Autiero in “Summertime”, 1955, directed by David Lean. United Artists Has anyone captured Venice at first sight better in film, so vivid, so alive, so real, so anew, than David Lean in Summertime? Venice … Read More
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In the outpost of Casablanca, the dress code is white
Photo: Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca”, 1942, directed by Michael Curtiz. Warner Brothers Rick never sits with his customers. He never sticks his neck out for everyone. He is intently neutral. He owns a nightclub in Casablanca, the Moroccan seaport … Read More
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This Summer We’re Channelling: Lords of Dogtown
This is the ‘70s skateboard counterculture of the mean streets of west Los Angeles, Dogtown, Venice, brought to life by director Catherine Hardwicke with raw energy, youthful grit and incredible visual intuition. You are living it, riding it, immersed … Read More
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This Summer We’re Channelling: Grace Kelly in “Rear Window”
One evening this summer, when a cool breeze was starting to push the heat from the earlier scorcher into more bearable a memory, we watched Rear Window in the garden. I have watched it on repeated times throughout the … Read More
