Charulata
One of the interesting aspects of watching people’s reactions to one another when they meet is to see the extent these reactions are shaped by unacknowledged emotions: tiredness, prejudice, suppressed … Continue reading
Tarkovsky’s Solaris
A spaceship has discovered signs of intelligent life on another planet. Study continues over a period of years from an orbiting space station. Back on earth concern is felt, as … Continue reading
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye
The Inner Eye by Andrew Robinson, (I.B.Tauris 2004) is an attempt to deal with an unusual problem: a writer, composer, artist and film maker, of world stature, who created in … Continue reading
A short article about Krzysztof Kieslowski
Krzysztof Kieslowski made over 40 films 1966-1994 (see below), 26 of them short documentary films for the communist regime of Poland. He is the greatest European film director since Bergman … Continue reading
Jean Harlow: from star to actress
Jean Harlow is now a symbol, for some, of golden age Hollywood glamour; for others she has the uncanny fascination that those who die young exert on us. At the … Continue reading
The mother and the whore
I am watching ‘La maman et la putain’, I think for the third or fourth time. I don’t want to say it’s a ‘great’ film, because the only sure meaning … Continue reading
The force of circumstance
LENI RIEFENSTAHL (1902-2003) was a multi-talented artist who was successful in many art forms. She began as a dancer, training under Mary Wigman and working for Max Reinhardt. By the … Continue reading
