Damien Chazelle subverts the conventions of the musical to update them for the 21st century.
Month: April 2023
Marianne Faithfull, leathers and a motorbike
You know that ‘Girl on a Motorbike’ was made in the 1960s just by looking at it.
Alif the Unseen
It’s unusual to read an entertaining English language novel that takes Islam seriously.
Billy Wilder and Me
Billy Wilder and Me is an engaging meditation on what happens when an artist loses their touch.
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s classic travel book takes you to 1930s Europe. It evokes a lost world and a lost time.
The speed of the sound of loneliness
Midnight Cowboy has aged well—because of its empathy for its desperate, damaged, characters.