Right at the death of the year, I’ve seen the best film of 2019. Terence Malick used to be everyone’s favorite director back when he worked away from Hollywood having directed two masterpieces in ‘Badlands’ and ‘Days of Heaven.” Suddenly after a 25 year absence he returned with the excellent Thin Red Line. Then things …
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Dubliners
Legendary street photographer, Martin Parr, described Eamonn Doyle’s photos as the best he’d seen in years. It’s hard not to agree with that statement. Taken on the streets of Dublin, they are graphic and raw and like all good examples of the genre hint at the lives of their subjects. A book featuring a sample …
California Trip
Dennis Stock is most famous for a shot he took of James Dean walking through Times Square in the fifties but there is lot more to him as the book California Trip shows. Covering every thing from the hippie lifestyle to rock concerts, Stock captures the feeling of California during en epoch making era.
There’s No Place Like Home
For some reason, I’ve never seen E.T. Until this week, when I got a chance to see it on a big screen courtesy of Noah Bambauch who chose it as one of his favorite films This might seem like an odd choice for the director of Marriage Story, but E.T. is also, in part, a …
Kiwanuka
Michael Kiwanuka’s new self titled album is probably my favorite release of the year. It’s production has a slightly early seventies feeling and is packed with hooks and choruses that would be effective in any era. In short, it’s the sort of album you can put on and leave on
Say Nothing
As we come to end of year lists I can’t say there were too many books that blew me away. That is perhaps not the best phrase to use about a book on the IRA but that is effectively what the book ‘Say Nothing’ did to this reader. Written by Patrick Radden O’Keefe it told …
Thanks for the Songs
This year has ended with a nice surprise. The release of a posthumous Leonard cohen record released and produced by his son under instructions from his father. It’s a really beautiful piece of work that comes in a shade under 30 minutes. Personally, i am huge fan of the short album. i dont see any …
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