Category: Film, TV & Radio

Dancer

I have yet to hear anything good about the remake of Murder on the Orient Express but here is something interesting. Former Royal Ballet Principal Dancer, Sergei Polunin, has a cameo role playing Count Rudolph Andrenyi.

Two Fine Lutyens Memorials

There are twenty Grade I listed war memorials in England (out of over 3,000 listed war memorials) including the Arch of Remembrance in Leicester designed by Lutyens, his largest war memorial in England. I have not seen it but on Friday I visited another of his memorials, also Grade I listed.

Love, Cecil

Love, Cecil is a bio-pic about Cecil Beaton. I have read his diaries from 1965 until his death in 1980 so it covers much familiar ground.

Morning DJ

Radio 3 is not frightened of being quirky. On Sunday there was six hours of music with no interruptions. Sacred River was introduced by Neil MacGregor at 9.00 am and then flowed along presenter-less until 3.00 pm.

Dancer

As Howards End is being shown on TV “only connect” is fresh in my mind. On Monday there were some unexpected connections.

Call Me by Your Name

A film about a summer romance between a twenty-five year old man and his employer’s seventeen year old son in Italy during the 1980s may well not be up your strada but I have seen it and will try and make you change your mind.

Educating Christopher

Now that the clocks have gone back the winter film-on-a-sofa season is officially open. I rummaged around and realise that I have far too many  DVDs.

The Three Rs

Reading, Rithmetic and Rock ‘n Roll – that’s the three Rs you learn at a progressive school in New York City, right? Wrong, that’s what you learn at Ireland’s last boarding prep school, Headfort in Co Meath.

Face to Face

I bought this BBC box set almost three years ago after I watched a few of the interviews staying with friends in France. It was when I stopped using shampoo.

Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd

My uncle, christened Henry, was always called Henty; my friends are the Dodds. How did they become intertwined? Well, we must look back to the 1960s when I had crushes on Illya Kuryakin (Man From U.N.C.L.E.) and Simon Dee. I gave the latter top billing a while back in a post about The Italian Job, in… Continue reading Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd