I sat at the back where it was coolest and surrounded by the monochrome collage of pictures of Old Soho that papered the walls at the rear of the cafe, staring unblinkingly at the unending stream of traffic outside and people walking lazily past....
In more ways than just cinema, the immigrant community of that part of West London in the 1960's and 1970's could be viewed as a counterpart to that depicted in Tornatore's film, since many came from rural villages with a farming background.
Prior to Cinefex the history of fanzines was littered with short-run magazines..
Writing: Plastic Astronauts from Planet Cereal… My mother insists that this is a false memory but I have a distinct...
The final title sequence involved a lot of analogue post-work in the form of a sheet of reeded glass that emulated TV raster or low-resolution 8 Bit computer graphics
As the young man came and went I would gently remind him of his promise to build me a jet-pack...
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when I had the first stirrings of interest in Japan and Japanese culture.
Fan Fiction: *Transcribed, unedited, from an un-dated (late 80’s ?), one-page A4 typed script… It may serve to mention, from...
Film Review: Extrait du Cahier Du Cinéma 1968 : J’ai eu le grand plaisir de voir le dernier chef-d’œuvre cinématographique de M. Gerald Thomas, «Carry On Up The Khyber», avec M. Kirk Hendry au Cinema Museum de Londres Il est clair d’emblée qu’aucune dépense n’a été épargnée pour livrer une...
Film Review: “Dai Nipponjin” or “Big Man Japan” (2017), directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto is currently available in it’s entirety on YouTube...
Fan Fiction: The Doctor stumbled out of the blue box, his foot crunching down into a sandy surface, a double...
Fiction: “The Return of The Space Gods” On an overcast, grey and shadow-less day a security drone buzzed high overhead, stereoscopic cameras trained on the deserted car-park of a supermarket – an outlier at the borders of a West London town – object recognition separating the background from the ceaselessly...