ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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London April 2020
Haunting images of the capital in lockdown
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
IT’S difficult not to think of the 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later when looking at the images of London in the early stages of lockdown framed by photographer Mike Goldwater.
The eerie emptiness of the city in the opening sequences of that film — which centres on the breakdown of society following the accidental release of a highly contagious virus — have an echo in the striking filmed images he took while cycling around the city.
They are, he says, a “creative response to the lockdown” and were inspired by a film made by friends of drifting in real-time along the river Stour in Kent by canoe. “I thought a ride through empty London filmed from my bike might work as well.”
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