In 1996, in a piece for Commentary, which has, as many of you know, been consistently covering itself in glory throughout its existence (see here, for example), the culture critic…
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Seriously. It's funny, I was thinking as I was writing up the new Criterion disc of Peter Yates' 1973 The Friends of Eddie Coyle, that Coyle could actually have been that…
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At Object Dart, Che reviews The Woolshed Sessions and a very thoughtful review it is: ... if I had to review it in only two words? Those words would be…
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In the Slumdog Millionaire review the other day I called composer A.R. Rahman a "Bollywood legend" and, for those of you unfamiliar with his oeuvre I thought I'd give you…
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Bow down, puny mortals, to the great Dagmar Krause, here singing with Henry Cow, Vevey, 1976In case you're wondering about just which micro-budgeted artistic aggregation your humble blogger has zero…
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I've just got home from watching The Day the Earth Stood Still at the Empire in Island Bay. It has several shortcomings (which I'll cover off in the review later…
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