A 1989 German documentary on Hong Kong’s fabled Kowloon Walled City.
Samuel Beckett: Film (1965)
Samuel Beckett’s only cinematic project, a silent film circa 1965. Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/16/samuel-beckett-film/ Public domain footage courtesy of the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/busterkeatonfilm
Cities on Speed – Bogotá Change
During the early 1990’s Bogotá was the capital city of Colombia and by far the “worst city in the world”. Doomed by corruption, chaos, poverty and violence, Bogotá was at urban decay. […]
Interview with Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins, 68, was born in Bury St Edmunds and raised in London. Having left school at 15, he worked as a porter, lorry driver and window cleaner. In 1968, he accompanied […]
The Devil In Miss Jones
Although she was named after January Wayne, the prototypical Seventies heroine of Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough, January Jones projects the cool but complicated leading ladies (Deneuve!) of the Sixties: gorgeous but […]
Daphne Guinness in “Daphne’s Window” by Brennan Stasiewicz
The documentary filmmaker infiltrates the cosseted world of eccentric fashion patron and socialite Daphne Guinness as she prepares for her recent call-to-arms in the windows of Barneys, New York.
Sean Penn in This Must Be The Place
Synopsis: A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father’s executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S. Trailer: Cannes press conference:
Dennis Quaid on cocaine
My greatest mistake was being addicted to cocaine. I started after I left college and came to Los Angeles in 1974. It was very casual at first. That’s what people were doing […]
The melancholy confessions of Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson is in a grand suite in an upmarket hotel overlooking New York’s Central Park, enjoying the view – and, in a city with some of the world’s most draconian smoking […]
Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’ to Open Cannes
Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” has been selected to open Cannes when the film festival kicks off May 11. The romantic comedy, which stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates […]