John Hughes gave a voice to 80s suburban youth

The Breakfast Club

Devon film philosopher Nick Ingram takes a look at John Hughes and finds a chronicler of conservative, middle class suburban 80s culture and aspiration… ahh, the good old days

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A Bout De Souffle: 50 Years Later

A Bout De Souffle

Devon’s film philosopher Nick Ingram takes a look at A Bout De Souffle 50 years on. It’s still as fresh as ever, but is Jean Luc Godard as radical a filmmaker as he thinks he is?

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Two medieval fables: Valhalla Rising and Robin Hood

Tom Leins reviews Valhalla Rising

What would those mediaeval types make of the movies we make of them? Devon’s film philosopher Nick Ingram takes a look at Valhalla Rising and Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood for two different persepctives on the mediaeval world

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Five theses on the theme of love in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

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Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristian Barcelona is a film about love, says Devon’s Nick Ingram. Five aspects of the nature of love are explored in the movie, reflected in each of the main characters’ relationships

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Obsessed with Betty Blue

Betty Blue

Nick Ingram loves film, and it was the French cinema of the late 80s that turned an interest into a dominant theme of his life. And even now he’s obsessed with the darkly troubled beauty of Betty Blue (37.2 Le Matin).

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From Nine to 8½ – why have a musical comedy when you could have Fellini's surreal story of the psyche?

With the musical film Nine released – a film version of the Broadway musical based on Fellini’s 8 1/2 – Nick Ingram takes a look at Fellini’s masterpiece

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Top 20 films of the decade 1999-2009

Nick Ingram runs down his top 20 films of the decade. What do you think of his choices?

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