Japan’s coffee jones
During a recent trip to Japan I was pleasantly surprised by many things. As a coffee geek, I was happy to discover that vending machine canned coffee is actually good throughout the country. But what...
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Grossing the highest box-office of any British film in the US when released in 1975, this “cult classic” comedy from the Monty Python team loosely follows the legend of King Arthur (Graham Chapman),...
View ArticleGoing In Style
I finally managed to see Wim Wender’s superb film Perfect Days. This truly moving and heartfelt movie centers on a Tokyo resident who is employed cleaning a set of special public toilets in the...
View ArticleThe Trial
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the posthumous publication of Franz Kafka’s chilling novel of the nightmare world of authoritarian repression and merciless bureaucracy. I remember reading the...
View ArticleStarring Great Britain
According to research conducted by VisitBritain in 20 overseas markets, nine out of ten people who are interested in visiting Britain would be keen to see film and TV locations as part of their trip....
View Article“They’ve been going in and out of style”
Continuing a tradition started in 2016, Chris the Barker has made another collage frequently updated and up to the last minute to eulogize Olivia Hussey and Jimmy Carter, in tribute to those passed...
View ArticleA Farewell to Arms (copyright)
It’s that wonderful time of the year when we anticipate all of the amazing works of art and literature that will lose their copyright protections. So, if you’ve been hankering to write that sequel to...
View ArticleIt’s a small world
The older that I get, the more often I stumble on snippets of information online that immediately triggers personal memory links to my own experience. In this category, I recently saw a reference to...
View ArticleWhen Ray Bradbury channeled Herman Melvile
I was today years old when I learned that the iconic American Sci-Fi writer Ray Bradbury was also a Hollywood screenwriter. The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published a fascinating story on...
View ArticleLeave the gun, take the cannoli
The historic southern Sicilian city of Agrigento is preparing to be Italy’s 2025 Capital of Culture and has taken a controversial stance against its infamous Mafia past. In a bid to reclaim its...
View ArticleOn The Beach
I was surprised to stumble on the complete version of the Stanley Kramer film On The Beach posted on YouTube. The 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama had an enormous impact on me when...
View ArticleBookstore Tourism: Il mio tipo di posto
It’s been more than a decade since I’ve visited Florence, so you will have to forgive that I missed the grand opening to the amazing Libreria Giunti Odeon. This fabulous mash-up of a cinema, bookstore...
View ArticleA 1000 Suns
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages will be well aware of my proclivity for all things Sci-Fi. My interests in the genre are wide-ranging and include everything from classic space operas to...
View ArticleIs there anything good to watch ?
If your household is anything like mine most evening include the question : “What are we going to watch ?” After becoming cord cutters, the question seems to come up more regularly than in the days of...
View ArticleBookstore Tourism
Bookstar in San Diego, California is no ordinary bookshop. The 1945 Point Loma Theater was rescued from the wrecking ball by the Barnes & Noble chain. The theaters adaptive reuse capitalized on...
View ArticleEin Meisterstück Inspires Writing
The always quirky and entertaining director and screenwriter Wes Anderson has brought his trademark stylized aesthetic and offbeat storytelling to the Montblanc’s new ad campaign. Released to...
View ArticleMany years later, as he faced the firing squad…
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. I first read One Hundred Years of Solitude...
View ArticleNew York City is the best movie set in the world
Texas-born filmmaker Jordan Studdard grew up with dreams of living in New York City. Now that he’s been there for seven years, he created an homage to his adopted hometown with a wall-sized map of the...
View ArticleAround The World
I am a complete sucker for the rediscovered and digitally enhanced old films and travelogues from the late 19th century. The YouTube channel Lost in Time has taken footage from the renowned Lumière...
View ArticleDracula for laughs
I don’t care what some critics had to say about Francis Ford Coppala’s 1992 version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I thoroughly enjoyed the Grand Guigol meets Expressionist take on the iconic vampire tale....
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