The Good Soldier Schwejk: Review Part Two
Schwejk made his first outing in 1911 in a short story called Schwejk Stands Against Italy. In the same year The Good Soldier Schwejk and Other Strange Stories appeared in pamphlet form.
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The Good Soldier Schwejk. Review Part One by Jane McChrystal.
The Good Soldier Schwejk is a satirical novel which exposes the futility and idiocy of war as it tracks the progress of the Candide-like Schwejk, across the disintegrating Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Review of “Dogman” a Film by Matteo Garrone. Jane McChrystal.
“Dogman” has scenes of tragedy and violence which are unforgettable and, at times, unbearable to watch.
The Living Thames. Review by Jane McChrystal.
On Sunday 28th October film maker, Dorothy Leiper, launched her documentary The Living Thames at Rich Mix in Shoreditch.
A Review of Marnie by Jane McChrystal.
Marnie is remembered best as the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Made in 1964, with Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery in the leading roles, Marnie tells the story of a mysterious woman who assumes multiple identities in order to steal money from her employers and the man who hunts her down, Mark Rutland.
Paris in the Cinema. Review by Julia Pascal.
These editors remind us that ‘Paris remains one of the most iconic, filmed cities in the world’ but they challenge the location as being merely a visual backdrop of glamour and romance.
A Review of Love in the City – An Experiment from the Last Days of Neorealism, by Jane McChrystal.
Sands Films Cinema Club of Rotherhithe regularly shows well-known classics and rarely-seen gems as part of a programme designed to bring the best of world cinema to a London audience.
Alessandro Blasetti and the Neorealists: A Review of 1860. By Jane McChrystal.
Sands Film Club recently screened Alessandro Blasetti’s 1860 as part of its 1934 cinema season. Blasetti’s pioneering film has been credited with introducing a number of cinematic techniques which would become calling cards of Italy’s Neo-Realist directors, such as De Sica, Visconti and Rossellini, during the 1940’s and 1950’s.
The Mystery of Dunkirk, by Jane McChrystal.
Dunkirk has emerged as 2017’s summer blockbuster movie. The director Christopher Nolan has been widely praised for his ability to immerse film-goers in the terrifying experience of soldiers, sailors and airmen involved in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) by land, sea and air between 26th May and 4th June, 1940.
The Living Thames Cruise, Sunday 27th August. By Jane McChrystal.
Londongrip’s readers are invited to take a cruise on the Thames Estuary on Sunday, 27th August. The cruise offers an unusual opportunity to get a closer look at some of the Estuary’s less accessible attractions: the Red Sands Forts, built to protect London during the Second World War; the sunken cargo ship, SS Richard Montgomery and the Thames Sailing barges racing in their annual match.
In Memory of Ken Russell, Unrepentant Vulgarian. By Jane McChrystal.
Vulgarity so self-confident, so unrepentant wins a kind of horrified respect. Ken Russell stands on his own, a mixture, at once frightening and preposterous, of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Hieronymus Bosch and the propaganda-poster artists of the Third Reich. Dilys Powell reviewing Mahler, Sunday Times, 1974.
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Your Culture is not mine…or is it? America’s tense relationship with high culture. By Stephanie V Sears
As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.