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Victrola favourites

review by Ian Simmons

Misogyny, yodelling and songs about pigs - unmissable

Rosemarie

review by Ian Simmons

Break out the patchouli, guys...

Revolutions

review by Douglas Messerli

Almodóvar's Volver is a kind of 'revolution' is several senses.

Some things just stick in your mind

review by Ian Simmons

Vashti Bunyan emerges from the shadows of the English Phil Spector manqué

The Rough Guide to yodel

review by Ian Simmons

For fans of sarcastic yodelling everywhere.

Latest book reviews [ view all ]

A Farewell to Schmaltz

review by Jim Chaffee

Tom Bradley's Even the Dog Won't Touch Me.

The articulate dead

review by Tom Ruffles

Enjoyable but uncritical

Science in contemporary fiction

review by Jim Chaffee

Variations on a theme of Richard Powers.

Mrs Miller's gift

review by Tom Ruffles

Vintage Spiritualist audio recordings get dusted down.

Weimar cinema

review by Tom Ruffles

There was more to the period than the Kit Kat Club and green nail polish.

Latest film reviews [ view all ]

Suna No Onna & Rikyu

review by Douglas Messerli

Two films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.

Two Pabst operas

review by Douglas Messerli

Looking back at Pandora's Box and The Threepenny Opera.

Starting over

review by Douglas Messerli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata is lugubrious but engaging.

Cemetery of garbage

review by Douglas Messerli

An impressive, if rambling, look at the Neapolitan crime group Camorra in Gomorrah.

The curious case of Benjamin Button

review by Douglas Messerli

A strange (and strangely redemptive) film...