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July 15, 2013 Film

Journey to Italy: Hollywood goes Neapolitan

De Sica’s  The Bicycle Thieves  and  Umberto D  maybe among the most famous examples of Italian neo-realism, but the films

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July 15, 2013 Digital

What is a web editor?

In most forms of publishing it is a square assumption that the medium of the material should not require too

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July 15, 2013 Thought

Programmes about programmes

Some time ago at 8pm on a Saturday evening, the BBC broadcast a tribute programme to Bill Cotton, the former

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July 14, 2013 Digital / Thought

Twitter and road rage

Imagine your life reduced to 140 characters; trying to articulate the sum total of your being in a few pithy,

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July 14, 2013 Thought

Britain and its wet dreams

Dreams matter. Freud said that they express the fulfilment of a wish. But outside any clinical or professional psychological analysis,

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July 14, 2013 Film

Gaslight: the light of the mind

Like many of the pies in which David O. Selznick had his fat little fingers, George Cukor’s 1944  Gaslight  has

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July 14, 2013 Film

Richard Curtis: the Great British Myth Maker

A Richard Curtis film set in Middlesbrough is a cinematic oxymoron. Even Milton Keynes seems unlikely. Mainly because foppish glamour,

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