New Statesman - <![CDATA[Neil Tennant]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/neil_tennant en <![CDATA[Diary - Neil Tennant]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200409130003 http://www.newstatesman.com/200409130003 Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:00:00 GMT Neil Tennant "Is this Tony Banks?" I asked James Fox. "No," he remonstrated. "Tony Blair." Three and a half years later, I was invited to the notorious "Noel Gallagher" victory party

Why doesn't anyone make silent films any more? To quote Depeche Mode ("Enjoy the Silence"): "Words are very/unnecessary/ They can only do harm". A silent film tells its story through the editing together of images, but many films rely on words to advance the narrative; this isn't cinema, it's theatre (or maybe television). I have this particular bee in my bonnet because I've watched Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin dozens, if [...]

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