British and likable? Computer says no. But I say yes. Immediately my brain generates a list of names: Kate Winslet, Ewan Mc Gregor, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Daniel Day Lewis, Emily Watson, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, and his brother, Joseph, not forgetting Keira Knightly (who […]

The remarkable fact in a documentary: you meet people. More often than not, they tend to be interesting. First I encountered a survivor. The whole industrial neighborhood was built on former agricultural land and all the original homesteads on it were demolished. Our subject’s house was destined for the same fate. The man’s family had […]

Koyaanisqatsi (1981, 1982, directed by Godfrey Reggio) represents more of a visual essay, one of the few documentaries that we can describe as holistic. It can be interpreted as a spiritual travelogue through our past, present and future. In its symmetrical ends, like in the cover of a volume, the film encloses its very essence. […]

There they were on the set, all those walkie-talkies that Alice mentioned in her recent article (http://cinemajam.com/mag/features/walkie-talkie-weirdness ). They were used properly to control the set and its activities. However when used improperly, the radio waves were full with all kinds of cultural quotes, lines taken from films we saw. They tend to sound good […]