Nightmare Alley and The Razor’s Edge. Signal One Blu Rays 2022. Review by Alan Price. Nightmare was violently against the grain and a box office flop. And Razor resolutely conventional yet questioning societal norms was a huge hit. Both are the film children of Edmund Goulding who on the evidence of these films and others (The Old Maid and Dark Victory) was a fine director.
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NO ONE HAS ANY INTENTION OF BUILDING A WALL: James Roderick Burns finds considerable power in a slim volume of short stories by Ruth Brandt
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman) 50th anniversary re-release. Review by Alan Price. Whenever people mention Cries and Whispers (1972) they cannot escape talking about its use of the colour red. Sven Nykvist’s Oscar winning photography saturates, without recourse to red colour filters and employing lighting from one source only, the red interiors, of a period manor house, to create a place with as much soulful character as its three female inhabitants.
HIDDEN SUN: James McGonigal explores James Fountain’s perceptive study of the poet Joseph Macleod
Poetry review – MIRROR, MIRROR: IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEAD: Alwyn Marriage looks squarely at Sam Smith’s uncompromising poems about mental health patients and those who care for them
Poetry review – DISAPPEARANCES: Pam Thompson reviews a dark and magical first collection by Kathleen Bell
Poetry review – THE KIDS: Carla Scarano is moved by Hannah Lowe’s poems about teaching young people
Poetry review – IMPORTENTS: Rennie Halstead feels the force of Naomi Foyle’s response to the ills of contemporary society
Mike Leigh’s Naked (1993). Review by Alan Price. In 1993 Naked was an abrupt shift from Leigh’s domestic comedy dramas. This raw and provocative film, full of black humour, about the underbelly of London cutting into a morally confused lower-middle class, both excited and dismayed people.
Kevin Saving reflects on depictions of John Keats in two books published to mark the poet’s bi-centenary in 2021
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