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Douglas Gordon: Museum of Modern Art 

In 1993, twenty-six-year-old Douglas Gordon had the bright idea of assembling a quartet of components: an ordinary, commercially recorded VHS tape;...

Escape with Joseph Conrad! The adaptation of Joseph Conrad's fiction on American old-time radio. 

INTRODUCTION Joseph Conrad has often been seen as one of the greatest literary stylists in English fiction with extraordinary skills of...

Letter: No chance 

THE horsemen of the apocalypse have reared their ugly heads in defiance of new laws aimed at a fox hunting ban.

The thought of...

Filming Lucky Jim 

Shortly before Lucky Jim was published Kingsley Amis wrote to Philip Larkin expressing the wish that `something nice would happen to me, like...

The politics of American cinephilia: from the Popular Front to the age of video. 

During a recent film series at the Queens-based American Museum of the Moving Image, which featured an eclectic mix of overlooked and downright...

The Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter and Pierce's Disease 

Mention the two words "glassy wing" to grape farmers in California today and the odds are you'll witness every emotion from open worry and hand...

[ It has come around to that time of year again... ] 

It has come around to that time of year again, when the last few leaves drop off the trees onto trainlines, Woolworth's Christmas lights appear...

Arts reviews: Gripping perfection is the scene; Strangers on a Train Malvern Festival Theatres 

Strangers on a Train is best known from the 1950s Hitchcock movie which starred Robert Walker and Farley Granger as the two young men involved...

Psycho - Review 

Gus Van Sant has not only filmed Joseph Stefano's script of Hitchcock's Psycho without rewriting it, he's reproduced nearly all of the staging as...

Hitchcock lives: 'Four Days in September.' 

'Four Days in September' is a melodrama and action movie rolled into one where the elements of an Alfred Hitchcock novel such as nonresponse,...