Eric Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs
WHEN ERIC ROHMER (1920-2010) died the comment on everyone’s lips seemed to be that from Arthur Penn’s Night Moves in which private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), says: “I saw … Continue reading
The books of George Orwell
The first book by George Orwell I ever read was the first one he published, in 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London. An old tattered Penguin, it fell … Continue reading
Think, or doublethink?
Eric Blair is an English novelist who is important to me, and I think he should be important to everyone now living. Under the name of George Orwell he wrote … Continue reading
A Story of Light and Darkness
In about 1500 BC there was another movement of the tribes from the northern steppes of Eurasia. They moved with their horse drawn chariots and bronze weapons south and south … Continue reading
The Historical Jesus
This is a quest that interests me. I find it similar and as important as the search for what Shakespeare actually wrote, or how and who composed ‘Homer’. I’m not … Continue reading
Inspired amateur: the films of Prentice Merrick
These few notes on Prentice Merrick are certainly not meant to be either exhaustive or final. They are a preliminary to a fuller examination of his work in film, and … Continue reading
Crossing the divide
I WATCHED A BBC/TimeLife series recently called Ancient Voices. The 11 episodes presented what was then (the series dates from 1995) up-to-date research which attempted to give new light on … Continue reading
