The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Lifestyle var dataLayer = window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; dataLayer.push({ 'videoName': 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - Trailer', 'videoType': 'Curated' }); Glenn Greenwald is at...

Mark Steyn The Constant Gardener 15, selected cinemas The constant gardener is Ralph Fiennes, whose character — Justin Quayle, a minor diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi — is a youngish...

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No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker [2]

Edited by Rob Young

London: Orion, 2012.

“I’ve come far from chains/From metal and stone/From makeshift designs/And seeking...

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For years nothing about Richard Burton attracted my attention to him more than to any other famous person. He appeared in many inferior films, but even his highly regarded ones—Look...

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Derek Marlowe

A Dandy in Aspic [2]

London: Victor Gollancz, 1966; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1966;

New edition, with Foreword by Tom Stoppard; Silvertail Books, 2015

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By sheer happenstance, I watched Bernardo Bertolucci’s arguable magnum opus Il conformist (1970) aka The Conformist for the very first time only a couple days before the Italian auteur...

Ed Driscoll In 1970, the movie industry was in big trouble. The moguls who built the industry and guided it through its golden era of the 1930s through the 1950s were dying off; older audiences were...