Phaedre – with Helen Mirren
Review of the British National Theatre’s production and direct-feed broadcast of Phaedre made on 25th June 2009 and seen at Bio Roy in Gothenburg.
Review of the British National Theatre’s production and direct-feed broadcast of Phaedre made on 25th June 2009 and seen at Bio Roy in Gothenburg.
Star Trek rebooted. A review of JJ Abram’s reconception of the original Star Trek series – as the first episode in a series of big-screen films.
May Day in Gothenburg in 2009. My second film essay in and a review of the five left-leaning political parades commemorating the Workers’ Holiday.
Prora, Rügen: Kraft durch Freude is my most successful music video – very nearly my only music video – but the success is probably down to the music All film and photographs used in Prora, Rügen: Kraft durch Freude, including photos of archive images, were made in or near Prora on the German Baltic island … More…
Gothenburg International Film Festival 2009 Revolutionary Road is not Titanic despite Kate and Leo – and both of them have appeared in better films – but as a costume drama it’s certainly worth seeing Suffocation of youthful dreams by 1950s US middle-class norms. None of the characters really sympathetic – mostly rather pathetic. All immature … More…
Derek: this blog’s first review – really more notes towards a review – I was attending the 2009 edition of the Gothenburg Film Festival.
At the Quill – weekly writing and what to write, my relationship with ink pens and why I chose this name for this category of my website.
Tangled up in words – a writing diary entry and a brief account of blogging elsewhere – and a visit to Borås and the sculpture I call a tangled eye.
A few opening words for my new WordPress blog: A ramble through my motivations and achievements, possibly some whistling in the dark… and a few seagulls.