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.
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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.
London Grip Poetry Review – Gann
Pam Thompson finds that Charlotte Gann’s first full collection succeeds in its aim of unsettling the reader.
London Grip Poetry Review – Costello
Nick Cooke explores the background to the cinema-related poems in Anthony Costello’s new collection
Tale of Tales. Review by Jane McChrystal.
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.
The Darkest Universe. Film review by Wendy French.
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.
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.