A blog on Newcastle Arts and Culture, Cinema and Life.
I’ve mentioned my love for silent film with live soundtrack before and as though the Gods of cultural oddity were reading my badly-punctuated plea for more, a whole initiative has sprung forth, promising to unite more films from the silent canon with contemporary musical accompaniment. Wunderbar! The latest incarnation of this magnificently diabolical marriage of [...]
I love spending a civilised evening taking in a play, but I’m no theatre dahling, oh no, my heart always has and always will belong to the cinema. My passion for the moving image is shared by the characters of Travelling Light, an unusual and utterly beguiling play set during the early years of the [...]
Much has been pondered, uttered and scribed on the subject of The Artist, the first silent black and white film to enjoy a major release since way back when. The current darling of the film press, many critics have lauded The Artist as the best film of the year and with the rather hyperbolic attention [...]
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