I was pleased a few weeks ago to be able finally to reach a settlement with Titan Books over John Walsh’s The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film. Published in September last year, it used large amounts of material from my book In Search of the Third Man without crediting me or seeking my permission. Titan agreed to insert an errata slip into the first print run of the book to credit its use of my work, and to pay me a small fee. It also agreed that corrections would be

It was a great pleasure last Friday to be able to talk about British film noir at a conference in Paris. The general feeling that participants seemed to have at the end of this three-day event was that they had even less idea about what British noir was than at the beginning. But as the term is so often associated with disillusionment, doubt and confusion, I found it paradoxically satisfying that we were not able to reach any neat answers. The quote from Denis Diderot on the

It is difficult to beat the beauty of Budapest cinemas. Here I am, last Saturday night, being pulled into the infinity of the lobby...