See/Saw

Geoff Dyer is one of the best essayists working today. Whether he’s talking about jazz, art or film he always manages to think that little bit harder and yet still makes his discoveries easier to digest, and even easier to be inspired by. His book See/Saw deals with one of his greatest passions, photography. He …

Darkness Falls

I’ve missed the cinema. The singular pleasure of sitting in a darkened room watching a mystery unfold on an enormous screen is a wonderful invention. In the absence of going to the cinema, I’ve been reading about it, through biographies and books like David Thomson’s ‘A Light in the Dark’ which concerns itself with some …

Motel Vegas

The motel is a quintessentially American thing. A place that speaks of road warriors and road trips and people running from some unseen moment in their past. They are the stuff of film noir and speak to the transient nature of American life. They also have a weird beauty. Fred Stigman’s ‘Motel Vegas’ shows them …

Poolside

Is La Piscine the most stylish film ever made? It certainly has a good case to put. The outfits of its lead actors Alain Delon and Romy Schneider could be worn now without appearing dated (with perhaps the exception of the unbuttoned to the navel shirts worn by Delon and his love rival Maurice Ronet. …