biography

  • GAINSBOURG : AN HEROIC LIFE

    Some 10 years after his death in his native France singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg is evidently still considered a legend and an icon. This startling new movie based on first time director Joann Starr’s own graphic novel traces Gainsbourg roots when he was then just Lucien Ginsberg a young mischievous Russian Jewish boy growing…

  • SENNA

    One cold January evening K & I are two of just five people waiting in line at Sundance Film Festival for a Press Screening for ‘Pariah’, whilst the line next to us is heaving and bustling with far more people than the Cinema will hold.  We check our schedules to see if we have made…

  • LIMELIGHT (Documentary)

    I was really drawn to this movie cos I wanted to see what I had missed out on way back then when I should have been one of the Party People.  In the early ‘80’s as a Brit living in London when I did visit  NY I did get to enter a very scary meatpacking…

  • LOST BOHEMIA

    During ‘BILL CUNNINGHAM:NEW YORK’ we were treated to a glimpse of the amazing studio in Carnegie Hall that was his home for some 40 old years and also we got to meet a few of the eclectic band of artists and performers that were his neighbors there. This new movie, also featuring Bill, is about…