Posts Tagged ‘film’

My sister wins an Oscar

There really should be an Oscar for Best Supporting Supporting Actor

The Battle of Chile and the wonder of movie theaters

The Battle of Chile is a great film that was made more powerful by the sound of anguish in the audience

On the streets of Hong Kong in 1938

Hong Kong in 1938 was smaller in scale, more human, much poorer and more unjust


Banning the Indian rupee notes really was dumb

The cash ban was floated in a Tamil action film, of all places, yet somehow became real policy

The late Omar Sharif in a magazine called Alive

I remember Omar Sharif best for a 1997 interview in a forgotten magazine in Cairo

Take a walk in Berlin a century ago

A film of early-20th century life in the German capital so vivid it will feel like you’ve visited


If you missed the Egyptian royal family…

A film made by the Egyptian royal family about a coup d’état that was lost for nearly sixty years

Marilyn Monroe fifty years on

Marilyn died half a century ago. Gosh, though, she photographed well

Christian Marclay’s The Clock and the essence of film

The most powerful exploration since Sergei Eisenstein of the way in which edits create meaning


Film of a garden party in Alexandria, Egypt c1920s

A lifestyle now lost captured on a film that cannot be watched

Moviebarcodes reveal the mood of a film at a glance

And who knew Stanley Kubrick used color the way Walt Disney did?

Salvador Allende and ‘The Battle of Chile’

‘The Battle of Chile’ is one of the greatest records of a revolutionary political moment ever filmed


1956: Gaza fighting, space cadet elevators, and Grace Kelly

Making news in 1956: Gaza fighting, space cadet elevator operators, Grace Kelly getting married.

‘I Am Cuba’ in all its forms

A masterpiece of camerawork from the Soviets in Cuba

A Spanish shimmy in Havana in 1930

Breakdancing in 1930s Cuba; really, who knew?


A journey through the Khyber Pass in 1930

A journey in 1930 across the Indian frontier into Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass

The Battle of Algiers

My vote for the greatest political film of all time