1960s London: The bright neon lights of the city are blinding, live music spills out of club windows, and Sean Connery’s fourth Bond movie “Thunderball” is premiering at the nearest theater. According ...
Turn on, tune in, and join us on a magical, not-so-mysterious tour of 1960s London. No, we're not talking about visiting famous tourist sites like Buckingham Palace or the Tower of London. Instead, we ...
Director Edgar Wright offers a decidedly dark take on swinging-'60s London in his latest thriller: "The further you get away from a decade, the more tendency there is to romanticize it." By Alex ...
“If I could live any place, at any time,” the wide-eyed young woman says, dreamily, “I’d live in London in the 1960s. It must have been the center of the universe!” Her name is Eloise — call her Ellie ...
FOAM - Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609 1017 DS Amsterdam Pays-Bas This summer, Foam presents "Swinging Sixties London – Photography in the Capital of Cool". The thematic group show ...
Sometimes a movie clearly represents a filmmaker’s effort to say something, to send a proverbial message. In Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho,” the message gets garbled in transit between the film’s ...
Nostalgia can offer history a brighter, more exciting and decidedly rose-colored sheen. This is the question filmmaker Edgar Wright, and co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns, pick up in “Last Night in Soho, ...
“Funny Woman,” a new British drama series based on Nick Hornby’s best-selling novel, starts at 10 p.m., Sunday, on WGCU PBS. Starring Gemma Arterton and written by Morwenna Banks, “Funny Woman” ...
London Fashion Week has arrived, and Jumeirah Carlton Tower is throwing it back to the era that changed everything. The Knightsbridge hotspot is paying homage to Dame Mary Quant - the queen of the ...
These two videos from the YouTube stream of Kino Library, a boutique archival video licensing firm we’ve mentioned before, capture a little of the flavor of art openings in the Swingin’ London of the ...
Irish emigrants to London in the 1960s were innocent and naive about many aspects of life. Just how innocent they were can be gauged by one young woman’s experience. I came across this book recently ...