Cornwall
Enys Men review - mystifying Seventies Cornish folk horrorThursday, 12 January 2023![]() Unlike the black and white Bait, Mark Jenkin’s highly acclaimed previous film, Enys Men (stone island in Cornish) is full of colour. Strange, saturated colour that doesn’t look quite real: a deep blue sea, a bright red raincoat, yellow gorse against... Read more... |
Doc Martin Christmas Special, ITV review - Santa comes to Portwenn as the final curtain fallsTuesday, 27 December 2022![]() In 10 series stretching over the last 18 years, ITV's Doc Martin unobtrusively became an enduringly popular household name, but it finally reached the end of the road with this Christmas one-off. Unless, of course, there’s a prequel, a sequel, an... Read more... |
Album: Fisherman's Friends - One and AllSaturday, 20 August 2022![]() A decade or so ago, I imagine if I’d run in to Fisherman’s Friends while enjoying a beer and a nice fat crab sandwich in a Port Isaac pub I’d have passed a happy evening and possibly returned the next night.Sea shanties – indeed, any good close-... Read more... |
Gustav Metzger: Earth Minus Environment, Kestle Barton review - an illuminating glimpse of a visionary activist-artistWednesday, 10 August 2022![]() In later life Gustav Metzger appeared a marginal, eccentric figure. The diminutive, white-bearded artist, was often to be seen round London’s galleries in the early to mid-2010s, dropping off piles of hand-produced fliers urging his fellow artists... Read more... |
Prom 13, The Wreckers, Glyndebourne review - an overloaded ship steered with prideMonday, 25 July 2022![]() Uncut, lovingly restored, and with two intervals in the antique manner, Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers invites its audience to embark on an epic voyage as well as a momentous one. This summer’s Glyndebourne Festival visit to the Proms brought us the... Read more... |
Album: Gwenno - TresorThursday, 30 June 2022![]() “The historic, the prehistoric, the natural, architectural, geological, ornithological, or on the side of its folklore, Christian or heathen – the place teems with subject matter that is as curious as it is interesting.” So the Gothic Revival... Read more... |
The Great Estate, Redruth review - Cornwall's finest festival extravaganzaSaturday, 11 June 2022![]() For those wishing to avoid the bloated plutocracy of #PlattyJoobs, the Great Estate Festival was the perfect antidote. Set in the beautiful estate of Scorrier House in Redruth, Cornwall it is described as “the most rambunctious garden fete”.There... Read more... |
The Wreckers, Glyndebourne review - no masterpiece, but vividly sung and playedSunday, 22 May 2022![]() Interesting for the history of music, but not for music? Passing acquaintance with Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, a grand opera by a woman at a time (the early 1900s) when circumstances made such a thing near-impossible, had suggested so. Then along... Read more... |
Rebecca review - mishap at ManderleySaturday, 24 October 2020![]() When it was announced that Ben Wheatley would be directing a new version of Rebecca, his fans must have wondered what kind of exciting damage he would do to the neo-Gothic template of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel – and how he might spin the... Read more... |
Make Up review – coming of age in creepy CornwallFriday, 31 July 2020![]() Minutes into Make Up, Claire Oakley’s auspicious first feature as writer-director, unearthly sounds welcome unwitting Ruth (Molly Windsor) to her intimidating baptismal adventure as an 18-year-old who's not so much bi-curious as bi-phobic. A nail-... Read more... |
DVD/Blu-ray: BaitMonday, 27 January 2020![]() Mark Jenkin’s black and white masterpiece about clashes between incomers and locals in a Cornish fishing village was made on a 1976 clockwork Bolex camera that doesn’t record sound – all that’s added later, including the actors’ voices – and hand-... Read more... |
CD: Gwenno - Le KovThursday, 01 March 2018![]() There was a hint of what was to come in Gwenno Saunders’ debut, Y Dydd Olaf. It was, for the most part, a Welsh-language affair, save for the closing track “Amser”, a song sung in Cornish and the album’s dizzying slow dazzle. For her follow-up, Le... Read more... |
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