The cold chill of silence: Winter’s Bone
The Ozark Mountains of Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone is a place of strict social order, maintained by silence and voilence. Nick Ingram takes a closer look at the chilling world
The trouble with Don Draper
Ever wondered why Mad Men’s Don Draper drinks and womanises so much? It’s because he’s carrying the weight of American history along with his own neuroses, says Nick Ingram, who takes a closer look at the show
I love Juliette Binoche
Nick Ingram admits it -he’s in love with Juliette Binoche… well, her acting anyway. And he can prove it. He takes a look at her acting, especially in her Cannes best actress award-winning performance Certified Copy and comes out, well, adoring her
Gainsbourg, surrealism, Piaf, realism
Nick Ingram takes a look at realism, surrealism and the aesthetic of cinema as demonstrated in two takes on French icons of Serge Gainsbourg in Gainsbourg and Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose
Power, domination and free will in movies
Nick Ingram takes a look at power, domination and free will in movies, taking Dogtooth, Agroa and The Girl On The Train as examples
Of Odysseus and neurotic men
Today’s media is filled here are too many neurotics and not enough Odysseuses says Nick Ingram. Just take a look at Ben Stiller’s Rodger Greenberg, Mad Men’s Don Draper and Larry David’s Boris Yelnikoff. They ain’t no John Waynes!
Fate, superstition and mortality: Cleo From 5-7
Life, like beauty, is fragile in Agnes Varda’s Cleo From 5-7, says Nick Ingram in his assessment of the French film of 1962
Please Give: a film of guilt and mortality
Plymouth’s film philosopher takes at look at the issues of guilt and morality in Nichole Holecener’s film Please Give, staring Catherine Keener
John Hughes gave a voice to 80s suburban youth
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
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?
Two medieval fables: Valhalla Rising and Robin Hood
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
Five theses on the theme of love in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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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Betty Blue and the beginning of an obsession
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).
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
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?
