Big Goodbye - Sam Wasson Irish 'Brief Encounter' Director: David Lean

'Brief Encounter' Director: David Lean (1945)

unsettling psychological horror

in their isolation the two women's personalities merge

An adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play - a work which examines the strictures imposed on 19th century women and the effects of shame

Big Goodbye - Sam Wasson Irish 'Brief Encounter' Director: David Lean'The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood' by Sam Wasson (397 page paperback) Sight and Sound magazine's 'Book of 2020' is now available in paperback it is an immersive look at the making of 'Chinatown' and an investigation into the lives of the key players outsized personalities who brought it to the screen: Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Robert Evans and Robert Towne. The film is also framed as marking the end of filmmaker