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 […]
‘Strangers On A Train’, The Phoenix, East Finchley, London
What better way of spending a Thursday morning than sitting in the art deco splendour of Finchley’s Phoenix cinema watching an old Hitchcock classic? About twenty cinephiles gathered here today for the 10.30 showing of the 1951 thriller Strangers On A Train. The film didn’t start until a few minutes later than scheduled, but that’s […]
‘Anna Karenina’, Phoenix Cinema, London
East Finchley tube station is a station worth lingering at for a few minutes, instead of bolting out of it the instant you have stepped off a train there. The station building is wonderful. Standing on the platform is like stepping back in time to the 1930s. Designed by Charles Holden, one of the country’s leading […]