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September 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 254
Jack Pleis, His Piano, Orchestra and Chorus, Broadway Goes Hollywood (1955) Muzak, schmaltz, cornball, oddities, soft-jazz, safe orchestral pop, call it what you want – I want it. Especially on vinyl. And I’ll never turn down a good 10” (ooh, er) – nor will I turn down a bad 10” innuendo (in-your-end-o!). So this is […]Archive
November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Andrew Paul Wood
Andrew Paul Wood is a Christchurch-based writer, cultural critic and freelance curator. He writes for The Press, the Listener, Urbis, Architecture New Zealand, and a host of others. Recent work includes a translation into English of the New Zealand poems of German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, Under New Stars: Poems from the New Zealand Exile (Holloway, 2012, edited by Friedrich Voit), and a […]Archive
June 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Karina Longworth: Hollywood Frame by Frame: The Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 1951-1997
Hollywood Frame by Frame: The Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 1951-1997 Karina Longworth Princeton Architectural Press Karina Longworth, film critic and blogger turned podcaster, is interested in the “Golden Era” of Hollywood, and the pop culture that surrounds. She’s created the amazing podcast, You Must Remember This, which You Must Remember To Listen To! […]Archive
August 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman