Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound! When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Uttered in the original story, in the 1988 version and now again in 2012 Holmes (Jeremy Brett) comforting the rescued Miss Stapleton (found on stairwell beneath great house, 1988 The Hound [...]
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A new Sherlock (cont’d): ensemble camp art
Posted in 20th century culture, Costume drama, Film adaptations, film studies, gothic, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, political novels/films, politics, rape, satire, science, tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, Camp art, Jeremy Brett, John Watson, sherlock holmes on May 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Whistleblower: the difference class makes; Rachel Weisz heir to Helen Mirren’s Prime Suspect
Posted in 20th century culture, actresses, mozart, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, political novels/films, politics, rape, sexual experience, Slavery, visual art, women's art, womens' films, tagged Helen Mirren, heroine's text, Prime Suspect, Rachel Weisz, wife abuse on April 12, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) finding one of the girls fleeing in a wood I watched this film for the first time last night. It’s an important film which I hope more people saw than I fear did (I suspect it was not a mass entertainment even if it played in mainstream cinemas). It’s a kind [...]
Charles Dickens and Sandy Welch’s Our Mutual Friend: A book of a river
Posted in 19th century novels, 19th century poetry, 20th century culture, About this blog, autism, Autobiographical, Charles Dickens, gothic, political novels/films, politics, rape, tagged Our Mutual Friend, Sandy Welch on February 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Filmic rendition in Welch’s movie of the famous opening scenes of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend: opening shot of movie; Lizzie (Keeley Hawes) at center; John Harmon (Steven Mackintosh) back from the dead and drowned the last Dear friends and readers, Over the past 10 weeks I’ve been listening to Mil Nicolson (Librivox) read aloud Dickens’s [...]
Prime Suspect: Lost Child & Scent of Darkness; Song of Lunch
Posted in 20th century culture, feminism, Movies, mystery-suspense, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, rape, romance, sexual experience, women's art, womens' films, tagged emma thompson, Helen Mirren, heroine's text, Le Carre, Lynda La Plante, Prime Suspect on December 22, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) and Dr Patrick Schofield (Stuart Wilson), Scene of Darkness Dear friends and readers, A third blog on the unusually good police series, Prime Suspect: I’ve now watched The Lost Child, Scent of Darkness , which I want briefly to compare with Christopher Reid and Niall MacCormack’s Song of Lunch, a more [...]
Prime Suspect 2 & 3: The Walking Wounded
Posted in 20th century culture, film studies, gothic, men's memoirs, mystery-murder book, political novels/films, rape, women's art, womens' films, tagged Helen Mirren, heroine's text, police procedural, Prime Suspect on October 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Jimmy Jackson (David Thewlis), Prime Suspect 3 Dear friends and readers, This blog may be read as a continuation of my blogs on Lynda LaPlante’s Prime Suspect (1), starring Helen Mirren, and “New hook-up culture another name for “old” casual encounter. In the first I showed the first mini-series was feminist, progressive, advanced ideas of [...]
“New” hook up culture another name for “old” casual encounter
Posted in 18th century, 19th century novels, 20th century culture, Autobiographical, feminism, rape on October 21, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) and Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) on their first night together: he’s lying about Darcy at the dinner, and later they have sex (Bridget Jones’s Diary, 2001) “New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large” — John Milton “the progress of reformation is gradual and silent, as the extension of evening shadows; [...]
