You don’t normally think of Sunday-night TV drama as a hotbed of political subversion. The usual fare served up is on the soapy side, with the focus on the caring professions and a heavy dose of sanitized nostalgia. Much loved examples include All Creatures Great and Small and Heartbeat, which followed the career of a [...]
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Nostalgia as political comment – has the BBC been rather clever with “Call the Midwife”?
Posted in Television, tagged CALL THE MIDWIFE: A TRUE STORY OF THE EAST END IN THE 1950S, Miranda Hart on January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Can a war movie be too beautiful? Thoughts on “Birdsong” and “Coriolanus”
Posted in movies, Shakespeare, Television, tagged Birdsong, Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes on January 23, 2012 | 3 Comments »
My weekend (artistically at least) was dominated by stories of war. It began with the new Coriolanus movie on Friday, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes. Coriolanus is one of the great, sprawling tragedies of Shakespeare’s later career. One could almost call it cinematic. There are a lot of short, punchy scenes that flow into [...]
The Fall of Sherlock Holmes
Posted in Television, Uncategorized on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.” - Ben Okri
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