THERE'S A LOT GOING ON UP HERE

1988

Everyone was talking about the party at Ben’s last night. It was his End of the World party. Only two days ago, watching his regular dose of morning TV...

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BOYS OF SUMMER

Holiday romances always seemed to happen over a long hot summer. Lazy days at the beach, pool parties, stolen kisses in the back row of the cinema and those...

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MILLENIUM

London knew how to throw a party and tonight would be no exception. It was New Year’s Eve, Millennium Night. At the stroke of midnight everyone would sing Auld...

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EPIC MOMENTS AHEAD

Marion had broken her arm two days ago. It was one of those weeks that had been sent to test her. On Tuesday morning on her way to work...

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MOTHERSHIP

She had been abducted and held here for a few days. It had happened at home, at night while she was watching TV. The last thing she remembered was...

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PERSONAL SHOPPER

Olivier Assayas second collaboration with Kristen Stewart is an eerie tale of a young American woman in Paris, Maureen Cartwright, trying to make contact with the spirit of her...

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WILLIAM EGGLESTON PORTRAITS

William Eggleston is often described as the pioneer of colour photography and an inspiration for Sofia Coppola who describes viewing his work as “having your breath taken away”. William...

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MUSTANG

With echoes of Sofia Coppola’s Virgin Suicides Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Oscar nominated Mustang is such a special film and one of my favourites this year. Mustang 2015 directed by...

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THE NEON DEMON

The Neon Demon polarised audiences at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and judging by the conversations heard on my way out of the screening at the Astor Theatre last...

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ITALIAN JEWELS: BULGARI STYLE

Apparently Richard Burton famously quipped that in the nine months Elizabeth Taylor spent in Rome filming Cleopatra, she learned just one word of Italian — ‘Bulgari’. Italian Jewels: Bulgari...