Posted by RDN under At the movies / Military Covenant on 8 March 2010. One comment.
The courage of EOD – bomb disposal – staff is well worth celebrating and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker does it brilliantly. Still, this is perhaps not all that accurate an account of the trade. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 7 March 2010. No comments.
Everything about the buzz surrounding Tom Ford’s film led one to expect the worst. To overstate the case, one expected a sort of style fascism. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 24 February 2010. No comments.
S & D & R & R has a lot going for it, but it’s a little lame in some departments. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 21 February 2010. No comments.
Sam Mendes is a very good director but he has a track record of disliking capitalism and isn’t a lot better about human relations. Revolutionary Road makes these points almost as well as American Beauty did. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 12 February 2010. No comments.
George Clooney’s Up In the Air (2009) is in a long and noble tradition (maybe two), and it very nearly delivers. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 10 January 2010. No comments.
In no particular order, here are my top movies of the last ten years. Surely, a vintage period?
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Mind and body / TV and Radio on 22 September 2009. No comments.
The late Dominick Dunne, novelist and chronicler of celebrity trials, was by parts Taki, Jennifer’s Diary, The Sunday Times Insight team, Edith Wharton, Thackeray, and J J Hunsecker (of The Sweet Smell of Success). More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Mind and body on 16 September 2009. No comments.
Previously, I listed Karen Blixen’s house outside Copenhagenand Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge as my favourite interiors. Casting around for third, I wondered about including Charleston, the rustic Bloomsbury hangout. Now I have a better candidate: Matisse’s chapel at Saint Paul de Vence. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Mind and body on 1 June 2009. No comments.
This is perhaps the most beautiful interior I have ever seen. It is at once bohemian and aristocratic. Karen Blixen being who she was, it is determinedly unbourgeois. It is of course also a wonderful pilgrimage site. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 16 February 2009. No comments.
Neurotic young women closely observed make for great movies. Such films set themselves a splendid challenge: can they keep the audience roughly on-side? Kym – our anti-heroine in this piece – is a perfect case in point. More »
