Christopher Bray
Articles by Christopher Bray
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Arts & Culture
The long view
- 08 May 2006
Epic films are anathema to audiences weaned on action-packed Hollywood blockbusters, but Christopher Bray finds that the slow-burning cinema of Jacques Rivette is worth suffering for
Film
Just her luck
- 06 March 2006
Film - Christopher Bray on the tragic career of Kay Kendall, whose reputation was marred even before it was made
Books
A genius for fury
- 06 February 2006
The Year of the Jouncer
Simon Gray Granta Books, 282pp, £14.99
ISBN 1862078963
Books
Director's cut
- 12 December 2005
Hitchcock and 20th-Century Cinema
John Orr Wallflower Press, 224pp, £16.99
ISBN 190476455X
Film
Christopher Bray - Light relief
- 28 November 2005
Film - Onion domes, berets and the constructivist haircut. By Christopher Bray
Everything Is Illuminated (12A)
Separate Lies (15)
Books
Live and let live
- 31 October 2005
The Moneypenny Diaries
Edited by Kate Westbrook John Murray, 272pp, £12.99
ISBN 0719567408
James Bond: the man and his world
Henry Chancellor John Murray, 250pp, £20
Ian Fleming and James Bond: the cultural politics of 007
Edited by Edward P Comentale, Stephen Watt and Skip Willman Indiana University Press, 283pp, £12.95
Ken Adam and the Art of Production Design
Christopher Frayling Faber & Faber, 316pp, £20
Books
Shooting off
- 15 August 2005
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: the biography of Russ Meyer
Jimmy McDonough Jonathan Cape, 463pp, £17.99
ISBN 0224072501
Film
Death in the afternoon
- 01 August 2005
Film - Christopher Bray explores a world of secrets and stifled passion in Claude Chabrol's claustrophobic thrillers
Arts & Culture
Simply doing nothin'
- 04 July 2005
Robert Mitchum once said he had two acting styles - with horse or without - and he would have been baffled by the honour of a retrospective of his films. And yet this great Hollywood star was a linchpin in the development of modern acting, argues Christopher Bray
Books
In cold blood
- 30 May 2005
True Story: murder, memoir, mea culpa
Michael Finkel Chatto & Windus, 320pp, £15.99
ISBN 0701176881
