100 Historical Things, Number 5

Last night, as promised, I watched A Night to Remember. It had been a very long time since I last saw it (certainly in excess of ten years), but it was as good as I remembered. The progress of the story is entirely linear, with just a little character set-up before the voyage, and more than half of film is taken up ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 4

Today is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. But why does that resonate? What does it mean to us? And indeed why does it mean what it means to us, if it means anything ( Read more... )

Watched the first episode of Titanic last night. Wanted to like it. Failed. Titanic films/series can only work by making the characters interesting and mostly sympathetic, maybe with the odd baddie figure - because it's not like we don't know what happens, is it? (I read an article recently that started with "Titanic. The ship that keeps sinking ( Read more... )