

The Beguiled
Anne Ross, my production designer, a couple of years ago told me, “You have to see The Beguiled. You need to make a new version of it or...


The Man Who Would Be King.
Reading the chapter called Miss Iowa in Foster Hirsch's biography, a couple of things stand out to me. The first is that Otto wasn't a...


Reading between the lines.
I've heard this before. Andrew Davies setting scenes in the Bennet girl's bedroom, imagining what the women would talk about out of...


Framing film as research
I've been struggling to frame my recent film, Shoes That Walk Alone within a research framework, but after advice from Professor Virginia...


TV's Female Gaze
In an article in the LA Times, Meredith Blake gives examples of where women are directing, writing and performing from a female point of...


Jean Seberg - Played Out
I read the first few chapters of David Richards biography of Jean Seberg, documenting her pre-stardom life in Iowa, through the audition...


Bonjour Tristesse on the radio
I got lost in the BBC Radio archive and found Jon Snow. He'd picked the novel as his favourite book in a Good Read episode in 2006 and...


LOLITA - unscrutable and unknowable
I read Rebecca Bell-Metereau's The Three Faces of Lolita this morning, where she discusses Nabokov's original novel (and his possible...


Trying a blog out.
I'm hoping that keeping a track of the articles I read, the conversations I have, conferences I go to and films I watch, in relation to...