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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Pam Thompson finds that Charlotte Gann’s first full collection succeeds in its aim of unsettling the reader.
Nick Cooke explores the background to the cinema-related poems in Anthony Costello’s new collection
Matteo Garrone’s latest film has been warmly received by critics. It is a retelling of some of Giambattista Basile’s 16th Century, Neapolitan fairy tales which formed the source material for many of Perrault’s and the Grimm brothers’ stories.
Here’s a new film not to be missed from the BAFTA nominated directors of ‘Black Pond,’ Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley. The film was first shown at the beginning of May 2016 at PictureHouse Central, Piccadilly as part of the London Comedy Film Festival, which promoted the film as being: filled with wit, melancholy and surreal breath-taking images. It’s one of the boldest and most beautiful British films in years.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs draws together his impressions of a novel multi-media show that combines poetry music and film.
Thomas Ovans enjoys an evening at the theatre which recalls a golden age of cinema.
Emma Lee admires Claire Crowther’s skilful use of appropriately restrictive forms in her poetic homage to silent cinema – and finds also that this pocket-size chapbook is generously packed with images and information.
Rosemary Norman describes how she collaborates with video-maker Stuart Pound to make films from her own poems.
Thomas Ovans glances back at the ITV series of Poirot adventures which recently came to an end
The Passion of Pierre Clémenti: European cinema’s christ-devil child. by Helen Donlon. “I hung out in St. Germain. Picking up cigarettes from the street. One day, a guy came up to me and said, ‘Come with me, we need you.’
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.
By Jane McChrystal • film, society, travel, year 2017 • Tags: film, Jane McChrystal, society, travel