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Last London Entry

Somewhere Else is not one of the things that I’ll have to say goodbye to now that I’m leaving. I can’t help wondering though if my entries from back home will be the same…

Backstage

The un-official guide to aspiring ASMs (don’t worry if you don’t know what ASM is-it’s all part of the training)

Trust the Man

Never trust the posters, trust the actors. The same goes for the previews.

The Idea of Hell in Dante and Sartre

This is a paper studying how Dante in The Inferno and Sartre in his play No Exit portray hell and what does this representation implies for their time, ideology and beliefs.

The Representative (onstage)

The Representative is a play but it’s also a fact: Nazis, Jews, Clergy, the Pope. Find the weakest link. Deport it. Gas it. Horrendous? It really happened.

Life on (Goldsmith's) Earth

I was late for college that day
a man was shot outside Iceland...
Welcome to Matt’s Winkworth wonderland, right on your door!!!

The Guilt of a Constant Gardener

When movies take their social role seriously, two things can happen: Either end up being didactic and boring or touch an inner chord of the audience. Now, most of us will agree about under which category ‘The Constant Gardener’ falls.

The keys to a thousand hearts

I know that the following is not a brilliant theory -after all it’s just a song- but the last time that I felt so close to someone’s words was years ago so I had to write about it and share my small ‘’epiphany’’.

When Capote Walked the Line (Part II)

The second article dealing with the films ‘Capote’ and ‘Walk the Line’; this part is dedicated to ‘Capote’.

The Time Left

’’Le temps qui reste’’ has been successfully rendered as ‘’Time to Leave’’ and nothing is lost in translation because the question remains...how do you spend the time left when you know you are dying in 3 months? (and you are 31)

The King (or why Bernal is the name to remember)

Fortunately, in ‘The Da Vinci Code’ cinema season, there are films like James’ Marsh debut, ‘The King’, that have the power of confronting the audience by raising questions with no easy or ready-made answers.

(nostalgia) at the Tate Modern

Nostalgia is one of my favourite words. It’s of Greek origin: nostos+algos. nostos=the travel of returning home, algos=pain. Beautiful word; proper title to a strangely beautiful film.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

3 hours in a London theatre is probably one of the best ways to begin a Saturday night out, provided that you don’t have to use the Northern line to return home. But if the play is good, well, actually you need this extra time in order to talk about it…

Keep me Posted

This is a ‘blog versus diary’ debate. Well, not really a debate but rather an attempt to understand how did people make the transition from the absolute private to the absolute public.

Picnic-ers Love Reading

There was a pink notebook.. Everyone who took a book from the book sh(w)op had to write something in it..Their favourite writer, book and quote..And this is what they wrote..thank u guys!

Tommy can YOU hear ME???

Dear Hedwig, I don’t know if Tommy could hear you last night, but be sure that everyone present in the Student Union did hear you. And see you. And most important, feel you. Thank you for that. (for those who are not Hedwig, please keep reading-or you loose...)

When Capote Walked the Line(Part I)

This is the first of two articles reflecting my thoughts after watching ‘Capote’ and ‘Walk the Line’. These two films are connected in my mind, not just because they are both biographies, but also because their heroes seem to share a lot..

The half-open door

a paragraph describing the first encounter of innocence with reality..

55 men on horsebacks

this is a poem written while contemplating on a Peter Greenaway painting in an art gallery in Athens.

Stereotypes of men film directors in women language

a paper written with the collaboration of my fellow students in Greece, Mariza Georgalou, Maria Tsampouraki and Alexandra Charbila on how men film directors tend to promote stereotypes about women’s language.

Off Limits Performances (Part 1)

These ‘off the cuff’ performances are part of an ongoing series of actions created around college in which I sneak into forbidden spaces. Watch this space for more....

Filmic Great Expectations

For all those who do not feel excited when they see their favourite book adapted into a film, here comes a short article that tries to spot the reasons for this attitude.

2001:A Space Odyssey compared to Homer and Joyce

In this article I’m trying to trace common characteristics, ideas and notions between two books and a film. All three share in their title the word Odyssey, which is a word that has become an archetype and is synonym to the idea of the quest. I mainly discuss Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey and how we can connect it with the Homeric Odyssey and its modernist rewriting by Joyce, Ulysses.