The little white attic

Lâu lâu viết tiếng Việt trên blog, mặc dù mỳnh chắc có khoảng 2 độc giả người Việt (đặc biệt nhé!).  Mời bà con xem video mỳnh edit về York,...

My collage of all the 7 Annas I have seen (in chronological order).  One common problem with adaptations of Anna Karenina is that, because ...

Facebook has just reminded me that 5 years ago, my experimental short Footfalls won the Royal Television Society Student Award – Short Form...

I don’t have a lot to say about Joel Coen’s film adaptation of Macbeth , but I’m going to jot down some brief thoughts anyway.  The first t...

My video of this year's Light Night in Leeds, the largest annual arts and light festival in the UK.  Set the quality to 1080p and enjoy!...

1/ The Taming of the Shrew is an unusual play, in that it has a frame narrative (the Induction)—indeed there’s also a play within a play in...

Last night I watched a theatrical performance of Macbeth , featuring Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. The production was directed by Trevor Nunn...

This blog post was originally published on 23/11/2019. I’m now adding an addendum to argue against myself, and republishing it.  Original ...

I’ve just seen quite a few comments on Youtube, criticising Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019) for  “ altering Amy March to fit the modern a...

Happy New Year, everyone! New decade (go away pedants) so it's time to dig out my favourite New Year song:  (In Vietnam, at least t...

These days I’ve been listening to Clifford Brown and Max Roach, thanks to David H. Rosenthal’s Hard Bop: Jazz & Black Music 1955- 1965 ....

1/ As How to Listen to Jazz and now, The Language of Jazz , barely talk about Charles Mingus, I have to look other places for writings abou...

After John Coltrane, I spent some time with Miles Davis, and, finding myself unable to get into Porgy and Bess , In a Silent Way , Sketches ...

“In a Sentimental Mood” as performed by Duke Ellington (its composer) and John Coltrane is one of my favourite pieces in jazz. It’s tender, ...

I’ve now listened to 12 John Coltrane albums: the 9 albums in the earlier post, plus Soultrane (1958), Dakar (recorded in 1957, released i...

As I’ve decided to delve into John Coltrane’s music, I’m going to listen in a more systematic way—listen to a whole album, instead of indivi...

I discovered jazz several years ago, when doing a course called Multicultural American Literature at University of Oslo, which should have b...

In Part V of What a Fish Knows , Jonathan Balcombe writes about fishes in a community—with company/tank mates or in a shoal or school of fis...