Before the film I had time to drop by Aitken’s Wine Warehouse where the temptations are infinite. I came out with a bottle of Akrathos Assyrtiko dry white wine from Newlands Winery in Halkidiki plus a bottle of Tobermory Gin from the Isle of Mull. I’d already had a bottle of the Akrathos and rated […]
‘A Real Pain’, Glasgow Film Theatre
A dreary grey January day in Glasgow, brightened up by a visit to Glasgow Film Theatre just off Sauchiehall Street to see ‘A Real Pain’, written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. The showing I went to see was at 8.30 pm in Screen 1. About half an hour before showtime I was loitering in the […]
‘Wilding’, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)
On a trip to Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago I visited the exhibition ‘Adam Bruce Thomson: The Quiet Path’ at City Art Centre, which is very conveniently located if you are arriving by train as the venue is just over the road from Waverley station. Adam Bruce Thomson was a well established figure in […]
‘I Used To Be Funny’, Prince Charles Cinema London
It was grey and overcast in London as I walked along Victoria Embankment by the river, dodging the runners and the selfie-taking tourists. At Waterloo Bridge I crossed the Thames and headed to Tate Modern for the Expressionists exhibition, a celebration of Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, and The Blue Rider Group which Kandinsky and Münter […]
‘Ryuichi Sakamoto – Opus’, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)
The scheduling of this film was poignant, as it was a year to the day that Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto died. ‘Ryuichi Sakamoto – Opus’ is pretty minimalist. There is no orchestra and there are no cuts to interviews with Sakamoto or tributes from friends. It is just an hour and three quarters […]
‘One Summer of Happiness’, Cinemathek, Brussels
Surrealism is characterised by unnatural or irrational juxtapositions that have a jarring or unsettling effect. Whoever programmes cultural events in Brussels seems to have taken this to heart by scheduling two major exhibitions on surrealism to run at the same time, an irrational and unsettling juxtaposition which meant that I had to choose between visiting […]
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