Text originally published in the Financial Times, November 22nd 1986 One of the regular high spots of the London Film Festival in the past half decade has been the presentation each year of one o...
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It’s a signature time for robots. In real life we’ve got Curiosity taking a years-long constitutional on the red planet, Rosetta dropping in on Comet67P, drones over the White House and Iraq,...
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I will never forget the first time I entered the unique film world of John Boorman. I was around 17 or 18. A matinee screening of Zardoz at the National Film Theatre on London’s South Bank. I w...
Long before he provided the ominous tones for Darth Vader and created the most iconic-sounding villain in screen history, James Earl Jones made his mark in a number of major productions of stage ...
In 2008, TV’s best series on the arts, The South Bank Show, trained its telescopic sight on James Bond, to coincide with Daniel Craig’s second outing as 007 in Quantum of Solace. The resu...
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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” “That’s your problem! You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.” (Sleepless in Seattle) “The desire ...
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Living and working in Hollywood one is inclined, somewhat more than the general population, to suffer from a variety of movie states of mind. After all, wanting to escape reality is what brought ...
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Imagine you receive a letter through the mail telling you that someone you have had sex with has tested positive for HIV. Except the letter doesn’t tell you who. That’s exactly the situation ...
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