Shunji Iwai: the cinema of introspection
Shunji Iwai (岩井俊二 ) from Sendai is not just a film director: he is also a video artist, scriptwriter and novelist, editor, actor, composer and, more frequently now, producer. There … Continue reading
Eleftheria: freedom’s voice
Eleftheria Arvanitaki belongs on any list of the world’s greatest singers. It’s a shame that Greek pop music is hidden away by an unfamiliar alphabet (even though it stems from … Continue reading
Ancestors: John Conway
John Conway was my great great grandfather, my mother’s mother’s mother’s father. The photo shows John’s grandson Edward Thomas Conway in about 1914. Both John Conway and his father Edward … Continue reading
Favourite American Cinema
This list combines a number of accepted cinema classics with quite a few films of the 30s and 40s I feel are under-appreciated: this was, it is generally admitted, the … Continue reading
Harry Phillips
In the 1980s I wrote a book on an early photographer of Sydney’s Blue Mountains district. His name was Harry Phillips and the book was called ‘The Far-Famed Blue Mountains … Continue reading
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
This is a superb presentation which has, nevertheless, some flaws. Segment one, which tells the story of Alexander’s youth and the launch of the great expedition, gives due credit to … Continue reading
Ancestors: Alexandre Alphonse Douzans
Alexandre Adrien Alphonse Douzans was my great great grandfather, my mother’s mother’s father’s father. The photo shows his monument in Waverley cemetery in Sydney NSW. Alphonse was born in the … Continue reading
