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The Master Storyteller
On 30 July 2007 the world of cinema lost one of its most ingenious sons – Ingmar Bergman – a filmmaker who transferred the dramatics of the stage to the screen, creating engaging masterpieces that...
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A Love Letter to Almodóvar: Why the Spanish Filmmaker Is Still King
Too often today cinema is laced with irrelevant narratives and ephemeral surprises, the dramatic image and true essence of the story is denigrated by CGI and other diluting confectionary. The joy of...
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The Wes Anderson Formula
Wes Anderson’s multi-layered and multi-faceted feature films continue to garner a massive fan base. Since 1996, with the release of Bottle Rocket, he’s moved from madcap independent cinema to...
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The Frank and Funny Ellen Forney
Michelangelo, Jackson Pollock, Vincent Van Gogh, John Keats, Ezra Pound, Leo Tolstoy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Victor Hugo, Lord Byron and sixty-one other poets, writers and artists are listed as probable...
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The Shahnameh: Epic of the Persian Kings by Ferdowsi
It’s said that if you’re English you must know at least one work by Shakespeare, to be Scottish you must know at least one poem by Robert Burns, and to be Persian you must know at least one tale from...
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The Return of the Dandy
Man and His Eternal Quest for Style It’s difficult to define dandyism; it’s a style which has come back time and again in various cultures. Some of you reading this may think of the “New Romantics” the...
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The Uniformity of Modern Architecture
Earlier this week, I went to my local Citizens Advice Bureau, their offices are based upstairs in my town’s (Fareham) library. As I sat there, waiting for an adviser to usher me in, I looked out of the...
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Why Modern Art is Rubbish
For my field of study, English Literature won the battle over Art History, so I was never going to become the Art Historian I wanted to be for a handful of my prepubescent years. However the subject...
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Seeing Red
Still an incredibly shy man who immersed himself in the eternal comfort of the arts, I was 22 when I first saw a film by Sergei Parajanov. Having developed a love of film early on in life, I had always...
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Culture and the Cult of PC
Like the little Dutch boy who desperately tried plugging up the dyke to stem the flow of water, those of us who wish to protect our cultures from the flood of political correctness are in the same...
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