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Picks of the year
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/12/2013
» Like ravenous hunter-gatherers, we forage the thick forest of cinema and emerge with our pickings. Or maybe: like a mental patient, we plunge into the dark asylum of movie theatres in search of sanity, of light, of secrets. Most of the times we come out empty-handed, but the point, for madmen and women out there, is to keep looking.
Early blueprints for bar scene scribes
B Magazine, Jim Algie, Published on 21/04/2013
» Years before the obscenity trial that allowed Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer to finally be published in America which, along with Playboy and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, helped to bring sex in from the margins of pornography to the bedrooms of suburbia, two British authors enjoyed scandalous successes by exposing the brothels and bargirls of Asia.
King Kane dethroned
Life, Published on 03/08/2012
» Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has unseated Orson Welles' Citizen Kane to take the top spot in the much-anticipated, once-in-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll conducted by the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine. Welles' 1941 movie, which had occupied the No.1 position for half-a-century _ since 1962 _ is now in second place.