LP Hartley’s 1953 novel “The Go-between” was set in north Norfolk, in the secluded country homes and villages where I grew up. Yet, the Victorian landscapes of the novel weren’t really a place I recognised. Understandably. Hartley famously began the novel: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” And this is…
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While reading up about the Civil War, I also came across this snippet of filmmaking news; Quentin Tarantino is making what he’s calling a “southern” – basically a Western set in the deep South during the era of slavery. Entitled Django Unchained, the script is about a black slave named Django who is trained by…
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