Scene of the Day – Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
Hello again, dear reader. As you may have heard from my dear comrade Aneet, I have been on me holidays recently (two, in fact, sunny Valencia and not-so-sunny Northern Ireland), so I do apologise if you’re feeling as though I have abandoned you like an unwanted infant of late. However, whilst I was on my [...]
Film of the Day – The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan, 1976)
“The past is a foreign country” writes novelist L.P. Hartley (most famous for authoring Fly-fishing, of course) at the start of The Go-Between, and you’ve got to admit he was onto something. Certainly old films strike me as somewhat “foreign” and it’s really hard sometimes to get a handle on things that happened decades [...]