Nick's choices
Theme: Let’s Get (Meta)physical
Time, space, death.…
READ: Super-Infinite - The Transformations of John Donne (2022) by Katherine Rundell
Trying to find meaning is nothing new. Poet, preacher, contrarian and saucy sonnet writer - just the tip of the Donne iceberg
Surprisingly good was the consensus. Roland, ever the contrarian, didn’t like it. At all.
Nick 7.5 / Tristan 8 / Nigel 7 / Keith 8 / Roland 4 / Robin 7 / Hamish 7.5
LISTEN: Tavener Metaphysical: a short introduction to John Tavener playlist
Ethereal, celestial, spiritual, meditative, spine tingling, transports the listener - all liked it except Tristan
WATCH: Oppenheimer (2023) directed by Christopher Nolan
Everyone found something good to say. Hamish bandied the M word - masterpiece. Most felt it could have lost an hour. Keith didn’t particularly enjoy it. Too much exposition
HBG endorse it: 8 February 2024 - 16 March 2024
Homegrown Festival, Brighton
How To Have Sex (Film - MUBI)
Zoo Studios Rave in Lewes
This Cultural Life (BBC Radio 4)
Civil War (2024) dir by Alex Garland (Cinema)
Perfect Days (2023) dir by Wim Wenders (MUBI)
Ripley (Netflix)
The Assembly (BBC)
This Town (BBC)
Emily the Criminal (Netflix)
