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.
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by Julia Pascal • art, film, year 2018 • Tags: art, film, Julia Pascal •
These editors remind us that āParis remains one of the most iconic, filmed cities in the worldā but they challenge the location as being merely a visual backdrop of glamour and romance.
by Jane McChrystal • film, year 2018 • Tags: film, 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.
by Jane McChrystal • film, history, year 2017 • Tags: film, history, Jane McChrystal •
Sands Film Club recently screened Alessandro Blasettiās 1860 as part of its 1934 cinema season.Ā Blasettiās pioneering film has been credited with introducing a number of cinematic techniques which would become calling cards of Italyās Neo-Realist directors, such as De Sica, Visconti and Rossellini, during the 1940ās and 1950ās.
by Jane McChrystal • film, history, society, year 2017 • Tags: film, history, Jane McChrystal, society •
Dunkirk has emerged as 2017ās summer blockbuster movie. Ā 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.
by Jane McChrystal • film, society, travel, year 2017 • Tags: film, Jane McChrystal, society, travel •
Londongripās 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 Estuaryās 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.
by Jane McChrystal • film, year 2017 • Tags: film, Jane McChrystal •
Vulgarity so self-confident, so unrepentant wins a kind of horrified respect.Ā 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.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, film, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, film, Pam Thompson, poetry • 3 Comments
Pam Thompson finds that Charlotte Gannās first fullĀ collection succeeds in its aim of unsettling the reader.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, film, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, film, Nick Cooke, poetry • 0 Comments
Nick Cooke explores the background to the cinema-related poems in Anthony Costelloās new collection
by Jane McChrystal • film, year 2018 • Tags: film, Jane McChrystal •
On Sunday 28th October film maker, Dorothy Leiper, launched her documentary The Living Thames at Rich Mix in Shoreditch.