Tag: Film
How one woman harnessed people power to save old New York
New film tells story of Jane Jacobss battle’s against the wealthiest developers in the city. She was a beaky, bespectacled architecture writer, hardly a figure likely to ignite protests that changed the shape of one of the worlds great cities. Yet such is the legend of Jane Jacobs and her bitter struggles to preserve the […]
Richard Adams obituary
Author of the classic 1970’s novel Watership Down, the allegorical tale of a colony of rabbits. Richard Adams, who has died aged 96, was the author of one of the most successful books of the 1970s. Published in 1972, Watership Down, Adams’ story about a colony of rabbits travelling across the country in search of […]
Una review Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn child abuse drama is stagey disappointment
A two-hander about a confrontation between a woman and the man who sexually abused her as a child fails to deliver on its intriguing promise. The challenge with transforming a stage production into a movie is the need to provide enough of a justification as to why the move was necessary. The differences between the […]
Whodunnit and whowroteit: the strange case of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
The real mystery of this 1930s cult thriller is not its murder, but the identity of its writer. So, asks Jonathan Coe, who was Cameron McCabe and what were the facts behind his fiction? This extraordinary work of postmodern fakery from the golden age of detective fiction was last reprinted 30 years ago, and in […]
Todd Solondz: There may be a line I shouldnt cross I dont know where it is
The writer-director has mined the darkest of subjects from stalking to rape to paedophilia. In Wiener-Dog he turns his attention to dachshunds and death In an unlikely turret right at the top of a cinema in Piccadilly, the film director Todd Solondz and I, practically knee to knee, are discussing dog ownership. Does he have […]