Even icons have idols, and for a young Eric Clapton, that idol came in the form of a blues-loving, poetry-writing, avant-garde puppeteer who lived in a flat in Long Acre, Covent Garden, with his ...

He’s most commonly recognized for his screen roles as a plotting hit man and an unlikely Lothario, but it’s his work as a playwright that shows more of his true self. By Susan Dominus AFTER I HAD ...

Few filmmakers outside the avant-garde have developed a personal style as rigorous as Yasujiro Ozu. While his films are in a sense experimental, he worked exclusively in the mainstream Japanese film ...