Christopher Bray

Articles by Christopher Bray

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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

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

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