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FILM & TELEVISION

RALPH FIENNED DIRECTS HIMSELF AS DICKENS IN THE INVISIBLE WOMAN

Film & Television / Anglotopia

November 23, 2012

Ralph Fiennes’s unlikely follow-up project to his virile directorial debut Coriolanus is The Invisible Woman, the intimate story of Charles...

ANTHONY HOPKINS TAKES ON HITCHCOCK IN NEW BRIT FILM

Film & Television / Anglotopia

October 16, 2012

Today, we all know Hitchcock’s Psycho as the iconic film that—with its shocking shower scene, heroine’s unexpected death, angel-faced psychopath, and dark humor...

BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL EMBRACES CHANGE

Film & Television / Anglotopia

October 02, 2012

As a film festival veteran—both filmgoer and former staffer—I found myself suffering from festival fatigue. After years of film-viewing marathons, I had lost the ‘festive’...

CINEMA NINJAS VS. NAUGHTY LONDON FILM-GOERS

Film & Television / Anglotopia

September 24, 2012

As this is my first piece for Anglotopia.net, I thought I should come clean about one thing: I love singalongs. I love the dressing up, the singing out of tune, the waving...

UNLOCKING SHERLOCK

Film & Television

September 21, 2012

Like many, I grew up on Jeremy Brett’s brilliant portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. And while I’ve seen various movies over the years trying to refresh...

THE SWITCH REVISITED

Film & Television

August 12, 2012

A while back, at the height of my dizzying “Downton Abbey” obsession, I came upon a short film by Emma Lightfoot titled “The Switch,” which starred a younger and...

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SOCIAL

LEGACY OF THE L.A. RIOTS

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April 29, 2015

In 1992, I was 20 years old, just a college kid working between classes at the now defunct The Good Guys in Corte Madera. To my left, large screen TV’s playing music...

iVISIONARY

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October 06, 2011

Yesterday, the world lost visionary Steve Jobs. We all knew it was coming, yet it still came as a shock. I hadn't intended to go but, yesterday evening, I found myself at...

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POETRY
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IN MY QUIET HOUR

Poem

In my quiet hour

I lie on my concrete lawn

All sheltered and thinking

Harsh echo of a midnight bus

Lingers in the liquid sky

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WE THINK WE OWN, BUT ONLY LEASE

Poem

You were older, don’t forget

I loved you then without regret

Your sights were set on worlds beyond

Yet for me your soul was fond

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ODE TO A SUNSET AT SEA

Poem

A globe abound

Of gold made round,

Beset by gloating,

Resorted to floating

Till gravity shifted

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I USED TO LOVE TO WATCH OLD MOVIES

Poem

I used to love to watch old movies

Shadows and light would dance

Within the frame of my little TV

The hero with his hat so strong

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CASUAL FRIENDS

Poem

Casual friends

Are what they are,

Met in a casual way.

Went to the movies

And out to supper,

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MECHANICAL BULL

Poem

Flying through the air

A man of happenstance

Has dreamed so long

Of this roaring day

That not even the jolt

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I'M SOLID

Poem

I know you, that strange, quiet face

You know me, my funny absent ways

And we talk of little things

I can’t remember

And it’s late so we whisper

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THERE IS

Poem

There is beauty in a word

Not cold or icy frozen

As a steeple

High and mighty

In my mind

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