From the Cheap Seats

We don’t really do TV round these parts. This here’s Film Buff territory, governed by certain assumptions about the gogglebox. No one’s denying that the telly has facilitated some remarkable work over the years and if you want to rap about (Old Skool) Doctor Who then baby, I’m your man. Yet no-one’s going to convince […]

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It’s David Lean’s centenary this year and although the anniversary itself was in March, the BFI are celebrating with a jamboree of revivals and retrospectives. What better time to consider his career?
But then I realised I had nothing new to say. The standard critical line on Sir David is that the early films were wonderful, […]

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