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Chris Rogers
Oct 5, 20224 min read
Beyond Bond
Today is Global Bond Day, marking the release of Dr. No sixty years ago and the film series that went on to embed itself in the culture...
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Chris Rogers
Sep 20, 20223 min read
The nation’s memory
I’ve been moved by events in the past dozen days, from the new Prime Minister’s ‘God save the King’ outside No 10 Downing Street to the...
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Chris Rogers
Aug 15, 20223 min read
Net zero sum game
A large, prominent commercial block on a major London street is to be demolished. The decision is criticised by professionals and...
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Chris Rogers
Jul 31, 20225 min read
‘Patriots’ at the Almeida Theatre
For a powerful man to claim ‘I have the country’s best interests at heart’ is easy; assessing whether he is right is rather harder. When...
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Chris Rogers
Jul 19, 20228 min read
Screen saver
Today the British Film Institute regains control of the IMAX cinema it built at Waterloo twenty years ago, a decade after being forced by...
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Chris Rogers
Jul 9, 20228 min read
Home work
In three months’ time Leighton House, the studio-turned-museum built by artist Frederic Leighton in the latter part of the nineteenth...
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Chris Rogers
Jun 25, 20224 min read
"Things you people wouldn't believe..." Blade Runner at forty
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, initially unsuccessful but now an accepted classic and hugely influential, was released four decades ago...
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