Retired operational research analyst. Fan of Shakespeare, Verdi, Sherlock Holmes stories. Champions Jamesian prose in a world of soundbites.
near London
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This book is on a subject very close to my heart, and I can only hope my love of these plays come through. As well as my thoughts on them, of course.
You may order it from contubernalesbooks.com/essay… , or from amzn.eu/d/bX9nj2t .
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Actually, I could make this weekend a Terence Fisher festival. “Dracula” (US title “Horror of Dracula”) this Friday; “Brides of Dracula” of Saturday; “Dracula, Prince of Darkness” on Sunday.
Have there been three finer vampire films?
(Rhetorical Question Alert)
Off to Riverside Cinema Hammersmith this Friday evening to see the newly restored print of the original Hammer "Dracula". Really curious to see the bits that had been cut from initial release for being a bit too strong for 1958.
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Off to Riverside Cinema Hammersmith this Friday evening to see the newly restored print of the original Hammer "Dracula". Really curious to see the bits that had been cut from initial release for being a bit too strong for 1958.
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Just watched an episode of the David Suchet “Poirot” series with my wife.
I find reading Agatha Christie tedious (sorry, but I do!) but enjoy the dramatisations. I guess it’s because the actors fill out with their personalities characters that are flat and cardboard on paper.
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হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee retweeted
The Ruffian has LANDED. This week: what's the Sally Rooney case *really* about? Free to read! ianleslie.substack.com/p/wha…
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হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee retweeted
Please do come to this event on Thursday, 29 October, at 19:00 at Conway Hall. A mixture of comedy, music, drama and spoken word celebrating Jewish culture. I will be playing Stefan Wolpe’s Palästina-Notenbuch and also accompanying wonderful soprano Ilona Domnich in some songs of Rachmaninoff (who did much to support Jewish musicians). And please RT!
bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/wh…
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As a boy, I used to go to Kelvingrove Museum specifically to see the mummies. I’m sure they didn’t mind.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum has removed Egyptian mummies from display because there was no 'informed consent from the deceased individual'👇
mol.im/a/16227743
#Exclusive #Scotland #Glasgow #Museums #EgyptianMummies #Woke @MailOnlineScot
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For my money, this is the single most frightening image from any film.
#TheInnocents
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I used to picture my retirement years sitting in a pub all day with a book, reading and boozing. How was I to know that you’d need a second mortgage to do that these days?
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হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee retweeted
If you need to see how far the left has fallen into a sewer of antisemitism, just look how they react towards a report written on the antisemitism Jewish schoolchildren experience in British schools.
An appalling disgrace that no other community would be expected to tolerate.
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Some years ago, I felt I'd overdosed on Brahms' symphonies, & thought I'd give them a rest. But I found a set of Barbirolli's recordings, & couldn't resist. Idiosyncratic readings, & not perhaps generally recommendable, but I'm loving them!
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Two fabulous films!
Quite the double bill of 50s 'Nights' on @TalkingPicsTV this evening. First is Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon, a marvellous study in terror & dread, then Nights of Cabiria, a bleakly beautiful example of early Fellini.
I do love this channel.
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Three of my favourite characters in literature:
Count Fosco (The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins)
Jephro Rucastle (The Copper Beeches by Arthur Conan Doyle)
Caspar Gutman (The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett)
I love genial villains!
Three of my favorite characters in literature, off the top of my head (no order):
Sherlock Holmes
Lord Arthur Goring
Ratty
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হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee retweeted
The idea that this is anything like the Rushdie case is sinister and factually wrong. The attempt to draw equivalence is deliberate and enables Islamists and their hard-left fellow travellers to deflect by citing this crap whenever the Rushdie affair is brought up.
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
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হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee retweeted
And if you really want to talk about speech-suppression, the case of the teacher in Yorkshire who has spent the last five years in hiding is a much better subject for discussion.
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হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee retweeted
New Substack on the first of my contributions to @acadofideas this weekend: my statement for ‘From Boycotts to Renaissance: Threats and Opportunities in the Arts’
ianpace.substack.com/publish…
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I’ve only read the scene that was previously thought to be the only bit written by Shakespeare, & I guess I should read it all now. But to be frank, the plays we know are collaborations - HenryVI Part 1, Pericles, The Two Noble Kinsmen, etc - aren’t exactly dramatic masterpieces.
The Shakespeare canon may not be quite as settled as we thought. New research identifies Shakespeare as the principal author of Edward III and Marlowe as his collaborator. The old rivals may have been partners after all. @loughnrv @MarloweProject 🎭
theguardian.com/culture/2026…
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