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Monthly Archives: May 2022
“Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday”
Or, more correctly, “Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot”. Jacques Tati, the French film maker and script writer, made this wonderful film and it was released to the world in 1953. Many of Tati’s films make use of the big screen. … Continue reading
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The television
Cinema (movies if you like) was always a popular form of entertainment. It was inexpensive, readily accessible, you didn’t need to dress up, you didn’t need to be quiet or concentrate (you could eat, snog, talk whatever)… But cinema had … Continue reading
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“12 Angry Men”
It started as a tv play from American tv in the early 1950s, and has been re-made many times and is a favourite for theatre groups even now, but the film version of “12 Angry Men” from 1957 is still … Continue reading
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