Roger Neill

Articles By Roger Neill

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

David Lynch’s final two features mapped a haunted Hollywood of curdled innocence and back-alley eeriness. Mulholland Drive (2001) seemed...

Most Brits don’t know much about South Africa today, but we do know about house values, so this new comedy by South African playwright and...

On 26 September 1966, The Twilights set-off from Australia to Britain. The journey, on the liner the Castel Felice, took six weeks. A day after...

What better way to start a season...

The Lovell sisters Rebecca and Megan can be heard supporting Ringo Starr on his new album of country songs, while at the same time their seventh...

Being unknowable has been almost as much of a preoccupation for the erstwhile Robert Zimmerman as writing songs. Previously on film he has played...

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. But in Love Life, Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s...

Another new release opens with the sounds of people in bed playing over the credits, but these are not Babygirl’s sighs of a...

Of the big UK indie bands of the 00s wave, Bloc Party were always the most austerely art-rockish. Where Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, Franz Ferdinand...