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Reflections on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel

Recently I visited the Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel exhibition at the Versa Studios in Leeds, one of its final venues on a world tour that was being staged by Special Entertainment Event, Inc. From the outside, the studios looked like a

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The Private Life of a Reclusive Genius

One of the Christmas presents I received this year was Stanley Kubrick and Me by Emilio D’Alessandro (Arcade Publishing, 2016). I’ve been wanting to read this for some time, and I found it at least as interesting as I expected.

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Beethoven’s double resurrected from the dead

Exactly forty years ago, in my last year at the RCA Film School in London, I made a half-hour movie about Beethoven starring Tony Britton, called Out of the Labyrinth. It was never shown publicly and has lain in various

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The Wright stuff on a damp day in Derby

It was a bit damp in Derbyshire today so we decided to visit the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. I lived in Derby up until 14 years ago, and last visited the museum about five years ago, and today found it

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