Contents

Staple 73: The Film Issue

CONTENTS:

Editorial

Roger Knott-Fayle: A scratch on the edge of the frame

Michael Eaton: Mister Thompson in Nottingham

John Hartley Williams: Three Movies for Those Who Are Tired Of Cinemas…

Angela Readman: Some Like it Not

Angela Readman: Nobody’s Perfect

Angela Readman: Beyond the Seven Year Itch

Sophie Mayer: Pellicle

Georgina Lock: Mudchute to Island Gardens

Isobel Dixon: King Kong Deja-vu

Tyler Keevil: Antigone’s Mantle

Martyn Crucefix: One Thing After Another

Martyn Crucefix: All Fall Down

Richard Skinner: Flickers

Myra Schneider: Fire

Myra Schneider: Insanity

Adrian Buckner: The Thousand Bit Jigsaw

Adrian Buckner: Bed Time Reading: The Brothers Karamazov

Paschalla Sharpe: Броненосец Потёмкин

Frances Spurrier: The Heroes of Chernobyl

Yelena Popova: Cosmicomics

David McVey: Showdown at Culloden

Emma Lee: Missing: A Motive

Howard Wright: What the Papers Say

Jill Campbell: The Doula

Alison Brackenbury: Leaving Cheltenham

Alison Brackenbury: On The Aerial

Alison Brackenbury: The Wallace Collection

Alison Brackenbury: Money

Tina Jackson: Only a Movie

Tom Weir: The Water-carrier

Tom Weir: Little God

Dikra Ridha: Jiddu

Dikra Ridha: There are no Americans in Baghdad’s Bird Market

Dikra Ridha: After the Invasion

John Saul: Twenty First Century Fox

Sarah Jackson: Howling

Sarah Jackson: Dignity

Sarah Jackson: Light Over Ratcliffe

Charles Wilkinson: from The Marches

Peter Rawlings: In the Cafe

Shirley Golden: Do Humans Dream of Artificial Hearts?

DA Prince: Looking at Hamlet

David Greenslade: Scales of Justice

David Greenslade: Asterisks

Huw Watkins: Film

Denise Bennett: Notes on St Agnes Church

Idris Caffrey: Orchard of Snow

Idris Caffrey: Curtain of Air

Kenneth Steven: In Late October

Kenneth Steven: Fog

Lydia Towsey, Pam Thompson, Maria Taylor, Jayne Stanton and Mark Stevenson (The Ghost Poet): The Word/Staple Film-Poems

Toni Thomas: She had a crowbar and yellow wings

Cora Greenhill: A Sport of Water

Carol Rowntree Jones: Falling for San Francisco  

David Harmer: At the Movies

David Harmer: Breakdown

Ben Parker: The Hidden Picture Show

Ben Parker: from Autobiographies

Kathryn Daszkiewicz: On Cleadon Hills

Kathryn Daszkiewicz: Amaryllis in Cafe Nero

Marcus Smith: Scenes from My Movies

Andrew Marstrand: World Cinema

Steven Maxwell: The Fade

Vincent Parker: North Cheshire FA Cup, Round One, 1979

Reviews of John Ashbery, Martin Stannard, Raphael Selbourne, Jeff Phelps, Maria Jastrzebska, CL Dallat, Anna Wigley, Sophie Mayer, John Fuller, Damian Smyth, Deborah Tyler Bennett, Maria Allen, Jenny Joseph, Nine Arches Press, Charlie Rolfe and Michael Wyndham Thomas…