Spoiler alert: I’ve seen this film and am about to talk about it. However, I suspect that not many of you will have seen this Japanese film, with subtitles. It’s precisely the sort of quality foreign film you go to a film festival to get a chance to see. Here’s its official trailer:
Continue reading “Film Review: “Radiance” (Hikari)”
I’ve just watched “Paterson” – a Jim Jarmusch film about a bus driver who secretly writes poetry and delights in overheard conversation. It’s a really gentle, observant film with not much action, but a lot of listening. Here’s a really good summary of it by reviewer Mark Kermode, who sums it up as a ‘mood poem”
This is a review of a book review (?!) jampacked with 1950s Paris culture and glamour, culinary groundbreaking history, Julia Child, romance and gorgeous photography.
The book is “France is a Feast”, and tells the story of Julia Child, with photos by her deeply enamoured husband, Paul Child, who was also an excellent photographer. The book text is written by Julia’s biographer and nephew, Alex Prud’homme, the photos collected by photography curator Katie Pratt, whose parents were close friends of Paul and Julia Child, so there’s a clear and close link between the writers and their subjects.
A well-written book review makes you want to rush to your local bookshop or library (depending on your budget)
Some books are fictional, some are what I’m going to call LifeBOOKs – books which help you read life. Books you remember because they open doors, open eyes, make you see and understand things you didn’t before you opened the covers. I hope to pull some of these down off my shelves and review them now and then.
Continue reading “LifeBOOK: “Gee’s Bend: the Architecture of the Quilt””
Yes, you can achieve a strongly positive book review before you have written a word of it… IF you reply to an unimaginative scammer who has used the old ruse of pretending to be a friend who has lost his money overseas.
James Veitch shows us how, in a video of under 3 minutes.
If you’d like to see more scammers getting their come-uppance, you’ll find “Scamalot” has Continue reading “How to get a glowing book review BEFORE writing the book….”
Food critic, Jay Rayner‘s top tip for great eating experience? “thou shalt choose thy dining companions bloody carefully. I am constantly asked to name my favourite dining experience but the truth is that it all depends on the company. Get the choice of dining companion wrong and even the most sublime cooking can taste only of ashes.” – Jay Rayner From article “10 questions … Continue reading How to get best food experience
If you like watching classic movies then HMV stores in the UK have got an interesting mix of classic and recent DVDs: 2 for £10, 5 for £20. Having just recently pruned our home DVD collection, I wheeled into the store with my housemates, crying: “we can look but buy nothing”. Ten minutes later, we walked out – they had indeed bought nothing; I was … Continue reading Film: The Great Dictator (1939)
