With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Vincente Minnelli.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy
Description: Re-release of the 1958 drama based on the novel by James Jones, centred on aspiring author Dave Hirsch, who inadvertently finds himself back home in smalltown Indiana, accompanied by floosie Ginnie. Alcohol helps to blot out Dave's harrowing experiences of the war, and to soften any tension with his brother Frank and wife Agnes. Bitter rivalries reignite, however, when Dave befriends professional gambler Bama and falls madly in love with schoolteacher Gwen French, then begins to take an active interest in the affairs of Frank's daughter Dawn.
Country: US. 1958. 136mins
Kings of cool: Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in Some Came Running
There is a character in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt who won’t remove his hat, even in the bathtub, because he wants to look like Dean Martin in this 1958 Vincente Minnelli drama.
It’s about a GI (Frank Sinatra) returning from World War II to a small town where festering hypocrisy reigns supreme.
The French love the film. Others may find it melodramatic and overblown. One thing is sure, however: both Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine, as his blowsy girlfriend, are good, and Minnelli was surely in advance of his time decrying the often poisonous respectability of small-town America.
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