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March | 2008 | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. The Cave Colour Supplement. Monday, 31 March 2008. It was Anne the Gumrat, in Geneva, who drew my attention to the CityDailyPhoto. Site, and inspired by this I’ve set up a supplementary blog as a companion to this on, devoted to painting, through a daily photograph, a portrait of Barrow. Posted by Rosalind Mitchell. Rambles with Rosie: Whinlatter Pass to Buttermere, the long way! Sunday, 30 March 2008. Anyway, we h...
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Film Diary: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975) | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Miloš Forman, 1975). Sunday, 16 November 2008. How do you think you’d fare if you went to Hollywood big shots these days for money to make a critique of the mental health service? Although to call it a critique of the mental health services is to miss the point. It’s as much a mental hospital story as if…. Is Louise Fletcher’s Nurse Ratched. Her buttoned down, oh-so-reason...First o...
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September | 2008 | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. Martin Rosen, 1979). Monday, 22 September 2008. To my shame it’s only four years since I read. It took until now to see the film, and then only prompted by the fact that Tom Ewing’s excellent Popular. Blog had reached 1979 and Art Garfunkel’s strikingly dark and moving song. It’s about as far from Disney as you can get, but it’s none the worse for that. Posted by Rosalind Mitchell. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.
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July | 2008 | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. Stanley Kramer, 1961). Sunday, 27 July 2008. Isn’t the kind of thing I’d normally choose to watch. Similarly, Spencer Tracy doesn’t figure much in these diaries for all his reputation as one of the screen greats, but then I’ve never cared much for the sort of film Tracy appeared in. Typically as a homely, small-town-American judge in a cosy, Norman Rockwell sort of way. And who is on trial here? Sunday, 27 July 2008.
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Film Diary: if… (Lindsay Anderson, 1968) | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. Lindsay Anderson, 1968). Sunday, 12 October 2008. Something was certainly in the air in that turbulent year. It was something inextricably linked with youth: a generation no longer prepared to sit and watch the follies of its elders being continued into perpetuity and which actively rose against it. It was futile, of course, if total revolution was its aim, but nothing would ever be the same again. You are commenti...
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Film Diary: The Thirty-Nine Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935) | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. Alfred Hitchcock, 1935). Sunday, 5 October 2008. Just as the year before Robert Graves had written a Roman epic also full of slippery Germans? Was something going on that not everybody was seeing properly? It’s even updated to the 1930s. North by North West. It will be a great film but it won’t be half as charming as this one. Posted by Rosalind Mitchell. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. I thoug...
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July | 2007 | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. Friday, 27 July 2007. Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth, babe. And he shows them pearly white. Bobby Darin, that was. Mack the Knife. Every time I hear that song it sends a shiver right through me and it sets my pulse racing. I keep it on a tape in the car and when things get too much I go and sit in the car and listen to it. Over and over again . There’s even a little metal cupboard full of nasties. I have to...
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November | 2008 | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. The Man Who Knew Too Much. Alfred Hitchcock, 1955). Sunday, 23 November 2008. A pleasant but unexciting flick about a California prison with an enlightened governor, now notable only for the unwitting film debut of Dexter Gordon who just happened to be on hand, and its Melody which became one of the most-recorded songs of all time. The Man Who Knew Too Much. North by North West. This is good Hitchcock. The cruc...
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Film Diary: O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973) | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. Lindsay Anderson, 1973). Sunday, 26 October 2008. In which Malcolm McDowell reprises the role of Mick Travis, the unlikely revolutionary schoolboy of. It might easily have been from an original idea by Fielding or Smollet. I believe that the true inspiration was Voltaire’s. And at this point we’ve left the realms of Voltaire and Waugh and plunged into the bizarre world of Flann O’Brien. Posted by Rosalind Mitchell.
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Film Diary: Great Expectations (David Lean, 1946) | Enitharmon\'s Cave
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Enitharmon ’s Cave. Writing and Photography by Rosalind Mitchell. About Enitharmon’s Cave. David Lean, 1946). Sunday, 2 November 2008. I used to think of. As the Dickens novel for people (like me) who hated Dickens. That was before I discovered. Of course (but then, for some reason, Dickens’s masterpiece was never on the menu when I was a child: if it had been I might have viewed the man more benevolently). Although it contains a fair slice of grotesque caricature,. Posted by Rosalind Mitchell. Uproar on...
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