January 2020
OoOM 27/01/20120 NEVER FORGET.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.There’s a troubling resurgence of racism around the world, and populist governments and organisations openly or tacitly encouraging it. Auschwitz has become the archetypal symbol, warning us of where this can ultimately lead.I visited Auschwitz some years ago and wrote a feature, with photos, for the (now defunct) Hampstead
The Machinist
Just watched The Machinist for I think the fourth time since its 2004 release. A nightmare of a movie featuring a truly remarkable performance from Christian Bale, who starved himself skeletal to play Trevor Reznik, an industrial lathe operator who hasn’t slept for a year.Mentally unravelling via an unending clamour of paranoid/psychotic delusions, haunted by a man whose fingers have
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