As appeared in the 2018 collection of essays for Gleaning Truths: Agnes Varda Season. 90-year-old Agnes Varda is the second-most-famous Agnes under the French fashion designer Agnes b who, incidentally, claims to have ‘got her eye by looking at movies’. From the crux of confessional interviews, Agnes Varda couldn’t have found her eye by looking … Continue reading
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Let’s Dream Beyond Bond For Idris Elba
This week I was asked to comment on Idris Elba’s flirtatious Tweets about being the next James Bond for BBC Radio Scotland. It got me thinking of the pros, cons, and eventually the audacity, of such a question… Continue reading
Hollywood’s Love of Celebrity Hatred
The concept of celebrity is having a bad day. It’s being snapped with no make-up, a bag of white powder and with a camera lens that’s so far up its skirt it could provide a smear test. Nothing new to see here but again the Warhols of contemporary cinema are painting a grubby picture of … Continue reading
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