• Call Me By Your Name

    Call Me By Your Name

    Luca Guadagnino’s latest, and best movie has been the subject of a stealth marketing campaign which revealed little of substance about the movie but somehow hyped expectations to a dizzy height.  Thankfully for once they proved extremely accurate as this near-faultless film about an intergenerational summer love affair is a sublimely perfect coming-of-age story that is…

  • Just Dance : Tempest

    Just Dance : Tempest

      Paris-based filmmaker Julien Pujol made this very striking wee film with Germain Louvet one of  the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet.  With its Wagnerian score the creative director Delphine Roche called it ‘Tempest’ as she said the storm is a powerful motif, one that is repeatedly present in the history of painting, literature and…

  • The Paris Opera

    The Paris Opera

      The movie cameras are back at The Paris Opera again, but unlike Fredrick Wiseman’s 2009 documentary La danse, and the 2015 film Reset that tracked Benjamin Millepied’s first full year as the Opera Ballet’s new director, this new film from Swiss director Jean-Stephane Bron is all about  drama.  Most of which seems to happen off-stage. The…

  • Miss Hope Springs Sings  ….. and so much more

    Miss Hope Springs Sings ….. and so much more

    We are getting our tuxedo ready to get all dolled up as next week we have a date with the glamorous chanteuse Miss Hope Springs. This sophisticated award-winning star of London’s cabaret scene who sings of big hopes and broken dreams has agreed to meet as long as we don’t bring up her past at the…