Essays, Ideas
The navigation bar at the side will take you to short essays covering an eclectic section of film topics.
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Step aside Aung San Suu Kyi and Maggie Thatcher: make way for Vaclav Havel
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We need to talk about Kevin and Tree of Life: compare and contrast
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Brighton Rock 2011: was a remake wise?
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Two thoughts about Inception : dreams and good scenes
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In praise of British film-maker Guy Sherwin's optical sound films
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The idea of confession in Dostoevsky, Bresson, Graham Greene, Simenon [this links to the idea sketched in Detectives]
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Ten short thoughts in praise of Eric Rohmer
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The White Ribbon has a specific intent to shock in the way that Surrealism does
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How Robert Guédiguian's L'Armée de crime wastes its opportunities, like a tragic overture that eschews the minor key
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On the Waterfront's Unanswered Question - Bernstein's music for On the Waterfront (1954) and a suggested link to Charles Ives
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Solaris: Soviet Cars - the glories of Soviet science fiction
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A Cathedral Tale - in praise of Powell & Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale (1944)
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Ford & Kipling - John Ford a 'divided film-maker'
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No Country for Old Men - in praise of the Coen Brothers film, and in even greater praise of the Cormac McCarthy novel
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Perfect Storm - in praise of John Ford and against the cinema of hyperbole.
