Art Deco, Poirot and the Orient Express
Adam, our Brussels correspondent (Twitter’s @artdecoist) marshals his little grey cells to probe the relative art deco-ness of the three film and TV adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express… Adaptations of Agatha Christie novels have helped to revive and sustain public interest in art deco. Those of us who viewed the Poirot TV series […]
The King’s Cup (1932)
After a long search, a relatively unknown British film featuring air racing, made in 1932 at Brooklands, finally got its public airing at London’s inimitable Cinema Museum recently. Two feature films were made at Brooklands within a few years of each other in the early ‘30s and both starred Dorothy ‘Chili’ Bouchier. Hailed as Britain’s […]