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