Well the 2017 Bafta Films awards season is grinding towards its climax once more. Rather a cruel descriptor to use, ‘grinding’, when it is really such a privilege to be a Bafta films voting member. There have been many good years and some great ones, but...
When I was about sixteen I saw Alan Parker’s ‘Midnight Express’ for the first time. When I emerged, blinking and speechless, devastated by the juxtaposed human extremes of light and darkness and drained by the sheer overwhelming emotional...
I like Americans and in particular I like their straightforwardness. I will explain why. There is a peculiar distinction between us and our American cousins that has become obvious recently as I am in consideration to direct what may be a rather substantial and...
