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THROUGH KAEL'S EYES : 'The Deep End,' 'Ghost World' & 'Fighter' - Review
Pauline Kael, New Yorker film critic from 1969 to 1991, died in September at the age of eighty-two. The day of her death I rented Nashville, a film she ardently boosted, and imagined her sitting in...(Continue Reading) Shots In The Dark By Graham Fuller - Ghost World; Bully - Brief Article - Review
THE MISFIT TEENAGER MOVIE COMES OF AGE From the Winona Ryder character in Heathers (1989) and Rose McGowan's in The Doom Generation (1995) through ......(Continue Reading)Ghost world the studios are damn spooked - Buzz: the city observed - Brief Article
NOT EVERYBODY ON THE STUDIO SET GOES home when the lights go out. According to those who arrive first and leave last, apparitions work the night shift....(Continue Reading)In the wake of Robert Lowell: can today's poets seize the moment as their great predecessors did during the First World War and the fighting in Vietnam?
Weekly assembly at my old school in Essex was a sombre, repetitive occasion. A recital of the Lord's Prayer, a homily or two from one of the senior masters, the obligatory warnings about the conseq...(Continue Reading)Ghost in the Machinima
Two soldiers stand idly at their base, engaged in a philosophical conversation that sounds like Waiting for Godot with a lot more swearing. It looks like ......(Continue Reading)
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