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 »
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Politics and campaigns on 4 December 2008. No comments.
Look around any office. Whales wave their flukes at you. Cute dogs wear bows. Yes, there are baby-snaps and families get a look in. But animals really are it. This clever movie takes things a touching step further. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Politics and campaigns on 27 November 2008. No comments.
This is the best Mafia movie I have ever seen. City of God would run it close, as a gangster movie. But this is about a squarely European scene. This is set in our backyard. And it is about business as well as crime. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 25 November 2008. No comments.
I watch a movie most days, and my pleasure in them seems to get greater. Forget cultural decline or dumbing down: this is a great age of cinema. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 4 November 2008. No comments.
The Page Turner (Fr, 2006). A tale of revenge amongst coolly classical French artistes. Behind the reserve and the good manners, everyone’s highly-strung and sexy and – in one case – thrillingly sadistic. It has a little something of The Secretary. I don’t think this could be made in England: we don’t make people of that sort.
