‘Man, Woman and Sin’ at MoMA

06 Saturday Jan 2024

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Jeanne Eagels with John Gilbert and Marc McDermott in Man, Woman and Sin

Jeanne Eagels’ last silent movie – and her only Hollywood shoot – Man, Woman and Sin (1927) is showing in a restored print as part of To Save and Project, the 20th annual film preservation festival at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) next Saturday, January 13th, at 1:30 pm. Continue reading →

2023: A Year in Film

02 Tuesday Jan 2024

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Documentaries, Film, Non-Fiction, Updates

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A Year in Films and TV, Aftersun, Aki Kaurismäki, Alcarràs, Babak Jalali, Broker, Buck and the Preacher, Carla Simón, Catalonia, Charlotte Wells, China, David Leland, Davy Chou, Elisa Jordan, Fallen Leaves, Finland, Fremont, Fyzal Boulifa, Gina Gammell, Hirokazu Koreeda, Humphrey Bogart, Iran, Jim Jarmusch, Killers of the Flower Moon, Korea, Lauren Bacall, Léonor Seraille, Li Ruijun, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Scorsese, Morocco, Mother and Son, Paul Sng, Return to Dust, Return to Seoul, Richard Barrios, Riley Keough, Shirley Anne Field, Sidney Poitier, Spain, The Damned Don't Cry, The Last Stage, The Old Oak, Tish Murtha, Wanda Jakubowska, War Pony, William J. Mann, Wish You Were Here

Adapted from David Grann’s history of the Osage murders, Killers of the Flower Moon was – for me at least – the cinematic event of 2023. With authoritative performances from Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and a luminous Lily Gladstone, plus the painterly cinematography of Jack Fisk and a subtly insistent final score from the late Robbie Robertson, Killers channels the spirit of the first revisionist Westerns. While perhaps lacking the flash of this year’s Oscar rivals (Oppenheimer, Poor Things), this is a masterclass in neo-classical filmmaking from Martin Scorsese – and a tough-minded reckoning with America’s brutal origins. Continue reading →

2023: A Year in Books

31 Sunday Dec 2023

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A Northern Wind, A Year in Books, Alba de Céspedes, Andy Warhol, Brigitte Reimann, Call and Response, Cold Nights of Childhood, David Kynaston, Emma Cline, Forbidden Notebook, George Orwell, Germany, Gothataone Moeng, Italy, Jean Stafford, Joaquina Ballard Howles, Julia, Kate Grenville, Last House Before the Mountain, Lauren Groff, Leïla Slimani, Megan Nolan, Monika Helfer, Nicole Flattery, No More Giants, Nothing Special, Ordinary Human Failings, Poland, Restless Dolly Maunder, Sandra Newman, Seventy Times Seven, Short Stories, Siblings, Susanna Moore, Tezer Özlü, The Fraud, The Guest, The Lost Wife, The Mountain Lion, The Peasants, The Vaster Wilds, True Crime, Turkey, Watch Us Dance, William Harrison Ainsworth, Władysław Reymont, Zadie Smith

Set in her beloved West London, Zadie Smith’s The Fraud focuses on two forgotten figures: William Harrison Ainsworth, once a bestselling author – and a doorway into literary celebrity, Victorian-style; and Andrew Bogle, a formerly enslaved Jamaican and chief witness in the trial of the Tichborne Claimant. Caught in the whirl of notoriety, their fates are tracked by a free-thinking widow whose acidic commentary tests the bounds of white liberalism. Continue reading →

2023: A Year in Music

28 Thursday Dec 2023

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A Certain Ratio, A Year in Music, A&W, Alma Mater, Avalanche of Love, Bleachers, Burt Bacharach, Candy Necklace, Celebration Tour, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Elvis Presley, God Games, Holly MacVe, Hollywood Bowl, Ireland, John Denver, Jon Batiste, LA Hex, Lana Del Rey, Life Lesson, Lost at Sea, Madonna, Mitski, My Love Mine All Mine, Nothing Really Matters, People Say, Rob Grant, Samo, Say Yes to Heaven, Shane McGowan, Sinead O’Connor, Steve Mason, Suburban House, The Kills, The Pogues, Tina Turner, W.I.T.C.H.

Lana Del Rey’s ‘diarist era’ has surely reached its apogee with Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard. Sprawling, eccentric, and soul-baring, it has more in common with her poetry than previous albums. In a female-dominated race, her five Grammy nominations include the supremely dark A&W, hailed by many as song of the year; while the jazz-inflected Candy Necklace has already nabbed two MTV awards. Continue reading →

Sixty Years Later: Scandal ’63 Revisited

13 Monday Nov 2023

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Art and Photography, Books, Fashion and Beauty, Film, History, Music, Periodicals, Poetry, Politics, Profumo Affair

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“In Britain at the start of the 1960s, Victorian values are still mainstream. There is a rich ruling class who are better than everybody else, women are mostly thought of as the property of the men around them and if you are Black, discrimination, IS the culture. I believe the Profumo scandal shone a light on all of that poison and was another step on the road that we are still very much on, to a more equal society. So, I think in some ways the Profumo scandal was a good thing. But for my mother, I am sure she would say, ‘What a price I had to pay!’”– Seymour Platt, ‘My Mother, Christine Keeler’ Continue reading →

Tara Hanks

~ Author of 'The Mmm Girl' and 'Wicked Baby'

‘Man, Woman and Sin’ at MoMA

2023: A Year in Film

2023: A Year in Books

2023: A Year in Music

Sixty Years Later: Scandal ’63 Revisited