The little white attic

Perhaps part of why I love Persona so much is because I have always been interested in the idea of self-delusion. Ingmar Bergman’s film has ...

Persona by Ingmar Bergman  Citizen Kane by Orson Welles  Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini  Yojimbo  & Sanjuro by Akira Kuros...

I’ve finished reading White-Jacket . What can I say?  White-Jacket has its delights. Take this line from chapter 23:  “The Neversink had...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman's birth, the best film director of all time. 

Look at this passage from chapter 19:  “I am of a meditative humour, and at sea used often to mount aloft at night, and seating myself on ...

This time on a man-of-war—I’m reading White-Jacket .  The structure is similar to Moby Dick —the book is broken up into lots of short chapt...

The film is about Dogville, a small town of 15 people in the mountains, somewhere in the US. It is hard times and they are living in harsh c...

I’m reading George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss . What motif do I pick up on? Hair.  From chapter 2, Mrs Tulliver talking about Tom:  ...

I saw this book at my university library in Leeds.  What is the point of this nonsense? Is nothing sacred?

Possession , as I seem to see in all reviews, is about possession in different senses of the word—possession, ownership, copyright; items, b...