At 8 hours in total, this airing of the 1927 silent film Napoleon at London’s Royal Festival Hall was by far the longest film showing I have ever been to. It started at 2pm and ended at 10pm. To alleviate this endurance test for the audience, three intervals were provided, including a break of 100 […]
Archives for November 2016
‘Nocturnal Animals’, Curzon Chelsea, London
On Grosvenor Square this November morning gusty winds were whipping the fallen leaves up as high as the top of the surrounding buildings. At one point a thick ridge of leaves heaped on the ground flowed forward towards me like a mysterious wave, driven by a sudden blast of wind. Further on in Hyde Park […]
‘I, Daniel Blake’, The Phoenix, East Finchley, London
This morning outside my window I could hear the sound of Frank Sinatra singing ‘New York, New York’. It was coming from one of the cars stuck in the stop-start rush hour traffic. The sound seemed almost surreal – a bold, uplifting song very much at odds with the mundanity of the early morning November […]