Bonnie Greer
17 April 2024
Bonnie Greer's Vintage: Orson Welles would have loved the trial of Trump
Both Welles and Frank Capra were masters of portraying the crooked side of the American Dream
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Joe gave women agency, even if they were wearing an apron; even if they were frightened about losing a man
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Gregg Toland
One shot tells you everything about this immortal cinematographer
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Stereotypes
Vintage cinema abounds with stereotypes, and it is the hardest element of the genre to watch
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Badenoch’s trivialising of racism may make her Tory leader. But at what cost?
The Tories’ response to Frank Hester’s racist comments must signal a turning point for the country
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Frank Capra
A Frank Capra picture always embodied what Abraham Lincoln appealed to in US citizens: “The better angels of our nature”
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Fred Astaire
In the Top Hat dance sequence we see a master dancer at the top of his game
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Garbo and Poitier
The Face is the real storyteller in vintage, and the close-up its greatest tool
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Billy Wilder and the spirit of Weimar
Beneath Weimar, beneath that endangered republic, was always the sense that life was fleeting
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The enduring lesson of All the King’s Men
Robert Rossen’s classic is a reminder to Americans that dictators don’t work for the people – they use them as a tool
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The beauty and genius of Cary Grant
There is no question in my mind that Grant is the greatest film actor of all time
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How four Brits unleashed America’s hidden anarchy, 60 years ago
The Beatles gave young Americans gold standard permission to be different from their parents
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Silos of hierarchy are holding Britain back
The House of Lords, where real monarchy lies, must be abolished
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America’s belief in the ‘inside job’ will put Trump back inside the Oval Office
Robert Redford portrayal in Three days of the Condor is eerily similar to Trump's contemporary success
Read the full article10 January 2024
I dislike everything Badenoch says.. but I’d still like to see her lead the Tories
Opposing right-wing politicians of colour runs the risk of entering a dangerous world of contradiction and nuance
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Just stop the right’s defunding of art, and culture will stop selling itself to oil
Britain needs a government that doesn’t shy away from culture and art
Read the full article20 December 2023
Milei and Maduro, riders on a storm that’s coming from the south
The populist leaders of Argentina and Venezuela fly under the radar in the northern hemisphere, but the threat they pose is very real
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The progressive left must learn there can be no whataboutery when it comes to rape
A US politician’s clumsy words about Hamas highlight a wider problem
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The truth, erudition and beauty of Benjamin Zephaniah
The late poet was a natural anarchist and a one-off whose like we will not see again
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Return the friezes and start the job of remaking our museums
The British Museum should be a place of cognition but it's not
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Why I’m no longer calling myself African American
Africa will always be part of my identity – but not all of it
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Barbra Streisand tells us her truth
She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such
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America is looking for a Swift political change
Joe Biden is too old and Donald Trump is too divisive – is a Taylor-made change on the horizon?
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On a November day 60 years ago, both a president and a dream died
The assassination of JFK forever changed America’s national psyche
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I won’t go back to the British Museum while austerity Osborne is in charge
He knows that unless parliament passes a new act, the museum cannot restitute the Parthenon Marbles
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Like Savile, Trump is a monster who understands how to push our buttons
The two media monsters were formed out of their nation’s very proclivities
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The American delusion factory: why Disney has lasted for 100 years
What would Walt Disney have made of the USA we now find ourselves in?
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Biden believes in the power of a union.. but the Angry White Males don’t care
Unions are what Joe Biden is. But Trump tells them his rival wants to offshore their jobs to China
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A very European King gives a French lesson to the Brexit blowhards
The King's historic visit went like clockwork and sent a message to Brexiteers
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The right’s cynical plot to get Biden will fail
The Republicans' campaign to take down the president will be short-lived
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The Battle of the Sexes was in 1973. Why are we still having to fight it?
It’s hard to accept that women today have fewer rights than when Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs 50 years ago
Read the full article06 September 2023
Hurricane Idalia has passed, but the sickness at the heart of Florida remains
Even before the recent racist murders in Jacksonville, governor Ron DeSantis has continually pushed anti-Black policies in the state
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