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Letter from A. Broad starts with a picture and a pang of the heart. From there it must beat into life, be penned as a letter and finally produced into a radio broadcast.

Letter from A. Broad Muriel Murch

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 6 Ratings

Letter from A. Broad starts with a picture and a pang of the heart. From there it must beat into life, be penned as a letter and finally produced into a radio broadcast.

    The Guilds

    The Guilds

    But this last weekend I had to mange it - Hollywood - because it is ‘that time of year again’. Oscar was coming. But there is foreplay in the form of the British BAFTA awards appearing in London a month beforehand, like a butler announcing ‘Dinner is served.’ And then in Los Angeles the weekend before the Oscars, the Industry Guilds all giving their awards. It’s a busy time and Hollywood, Beverly Hills and the tentacles of Los Angeles are gratefully twitching and alive with business.

    • 10 min
    Navalny

    Navalny

    This single death takes over my consciousness as I think I can imagine it - while the multiple slaughters are that are occurring in Gaza and on the West Bank leaves me sifting through pictures of rubble, hospitals and carnage, not really knowing who or what I am looking at, or for. Navalny’s death has me remembering the South African Activist Steve Biko.

    • 8 min
    Remembering Oscar

    Remembering Oscar

    Looking back on that year, and the politics that were uppermost in so many minds, it is hard to accept where we are now. Everything seems more - nothing seems less - and it is frighting for all of those paying attention. Vanessa, and others who have hit that 80 year date, still struggle and sometimes succeed to put the political and artistic work in a perspective that encourages those who follow.

    • 8 min
    January – The New Year

    January – The New Year

    - but it is with the stories that hold the slimmest degrees of separation that I carry. We have friends who are housing Israeli refugees in Paris; another young woman who fled Russia now lives with her mother as refugees in Tel Aviv; a Palestinian artist who has been silent since reaching out in the beginning of October. Our 8-year-old grandson’s best friend is from Ukraine, living with his grandmother in The Netherlands. These are the stories I can hold in my heart. 

    • 7 min
    A Dog’s Dinner

    A Dog’s Dinner

    It is the first time we have seen such an acknowledgment from a festival and it seems fitting that it should occur here where the emphasis has always been on the heavy lifting that it takes to be a cinematographer and to make movies. The yellow-vested stage hands arrive carrying three sofas and the recipients of this year’s gold frogs and tadpoles come to sit alongside those who have made this year’s festival possible and still the full audience is on its feet acknowledging that just as Copernicus wrote in his revolutions, we are all like the stars in the heavens and the universe beyond,  elliptically revolving around each other.

    • 10 min
    An Inquiry

    An Inquiry

    ‘Yes Minister’ first aired on the BBC television in 1980 until it ended in 1988, possibly due to the fact that it was becoming harder to distinguish the comedy series from the nightly news casts that followed. Among the many quotes attributed to the Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey is “Minister there is going to be and Inquiry” to which the reply from the Prime Minister Jim Hacker is “Oh good, then nothing will happen.” Well yes and here we are again -

    • 7 min

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