If you were expecting saucy romance (or aliens) from a film called Brief Encounter, this British masterpiece of the 1940s instead offers a wonderful oddyssey of longing, compromise, disappointment and despair. I love it. From the cut-glass accents and minutae of everyday middle class life (making a phonecall from the tobacconists, taking brandy in a […]
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Secret Style Icon(s) No.10: Vamps
“So you’re a private detective. I didn’t know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors. My, you’re a mess, aren’t you?” As if it wasn’t enough that everybody knows Bogart and Baccall were falling in love in real life while filming The Big Sleep, they get […]
Amy Jardine 