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2025: A Year in Film

12 Monday Jan 2026

Posted by marina72 in Film, Non-Fiction, Television

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2025, A Year in Films and TV, Barbara Loden, BFI, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Brian Murphy, Chase Infiniti, Cheers, Claudia Cardinale, Close Your Eyes, Corsica, David Lynch, Diane Ladd, Eka Chavleishvili, Elena Gorfinkel, Elene Naveriani, Film Noir, From Hilde With Love, Gene Hackman, George and Mildred, George Wendt, Georgia, Germany, Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Hard Truths, Hilde Coppi, India, Iran, It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi, Joana Santos, Josh O'Connor, Julien Colonna, Kathy Burke, Kelly Reichardt, Laura Carreira, Liv Lisa Fries, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Martin Scorsese, Mayukh Sen, Merle Oberon, Mike Leigh, Nina Mae McKinney, Norman Eshley, On Falling, One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, Picturehouse, Portugal, Prunella Scales, Rebekah Del Rio, Robert Redford, Sandhya Suri, Santosh, Saveriu Santucci, Scotland, Shahana Goswami, Some Like It Hot, Spain, Steven Cohan, Terence Stamp, The Kingdom, The Mastermind, The New Hollywood, Thomas Pynchon, Victor Erice, Wanda

Adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Vineland, no recent film speaks to our chaotic moment like One Battle After Another. Hilarious and unrelenting – with bravura turns from Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, newcomer Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall – this screwball odyssey affirms director Paul Thomas Anderson as America’s millennial auteur. Continue reading →

Joan Mellen: Marilyn’s First Female Filmographer

22 Monday Sep 2025

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Bus Stop, Clash By Night, Don't Bother To Knock, Feminism, Frank Powolny, Gene Kornman, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Germany, Gloria Steinem, Italy, Joan Mellen, John F. Kennedy, Larry McMurtry, Marilyn Monroe, Netherlands, Nickolas Muray, Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies, Ralph Schoenman, Richard Avedon, Sam Shaw, Sexism, Some Like It Hot, The Misfits, Turkey, Typecasting

Joan Mellen – the academic whose many books included the first female-authored (and feminist) critical biography of Marilyn Monroe, with a primary focus on her film career – has died aged 83. Continue reading →

2023: A Year in Books

31 Sunday Dec 2023

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction

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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 →

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