To the Gordon Aikman lecture theatre in Edinburgh University’s George Square to attend a friends and family viewing of “The Lynda Myles Project: A Manifesto”, which my sister Susan Kemp directed. Lynda was the first female director of a film festival anywhere in the world and later produced some iconic movies. At the only slightly more glamorous Cannes Film Festival which got … [Read more...] about Who is Lynda Myles?
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Poor Things movie: Alasdair Gray revisited – and revised
Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things tells the story of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), an irrepressibly free woman who seems to have the mind of an innocent child. She embarks on an exuberant voyage of discovery, travelling around 19th-century Europe and reaching Egypt, experiencing many new things as her intellect rapidly develops, before returning home to face her secret … [Read more...] about Poor Things movie: Alasdair Gray revisited – and revised
We will dance, oh how we will dance!
It’s now been over a year since I played a gig and it’ll soon be a full year before I’ve been to one. That's a long time and the yearning continues, gets stronger with every passing day. There’s nothing that can quite live up to the thrill of live performance. I realise now that it was something I took for granted. The support bands, the expensive pints, the impassioned … [Read more...] about We will dance, oh how we will dance!