Monthly Archives: September 2012

if you don’t like Marnie (the film), you don’t really like Hitchcock; and if you don’t love Marnie (the woman), you don’t really love cinema Robin Wood These pictures are from the opening sequence of Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964). Actually, I’ve put them in a … Continue reading →

These pictures of the railway, across the American mid-west, are by the photographer Dorothea Lange. The pictures were part of a project to document the real-life conditions of the American poor during the great depression of the 1930s. Photography has … Continue reading →

There was an interesting film about the development of the British Rail, diesel powered, Intercity 125. You can watch it, here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mqv43/The_Age_of_the_Train/ The train was the flagship modernisation project of British Rail at the end of the 1960s. The Intercity … Continue reading →

ITV’s new crime thriler, The Bletchley Circle, ticks all the boxes for me… You can watch it, here http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=324058 The story is set just after WW2 and against a backdrop of general austerity – it shares the visual style, colour … Continue reading →