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I wrote an extended version of my interview with Jane Birkin in which she talked about Serge Gainsbourg, motherhood, and the subversive legacy of Je T'Aime. https://open.substack.com/pub/alastairmckay/p/histoire-de-jane-birkin-an-english?r=695tp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Cass: Frodo Baggins, Margaret Thatcher And The Exploitation Of Violence, West Ham-style

Mike Leigh Watches Gavin And Stacey, Is Reminded Of His Younger Self, And Tries To Imagine What It Would Be Like To Be Happy

Sinew and Duracell: Martin Scorsese and the Frightening Endurance of the Rolling Stones

I'm An Ape Man, I'm An Ape-Ape Man: Another Disaster From Roland Emmerich

Shrek The Third: Recommended For The Burping And Farting Of The Ogre Babies. And The Wet Cat

Ocean's Thirteen: The Manliness of Men Being Manly In Vegas, In Sunglasses

Meet the new Bob: A new film accompanies DA Pennebaker's classic Dylan documentary Dont Look Back

Jindabyne: All Is Not Well In Tidy Town

Zodiac: David Fincher Batters America's Innocence (Again) While Indulging His Love Of All The President's Men

28 Weeks Later: From Simple Fear Of The Dark To Full-On Zombie Splatter, As Canary Wharf Becomes The New Baghdad

Spider-Man 3: Stuck in 1962, Nostalgic For An Age Yet To Come

This Is England: A Summer Of Tainted Love, Buckaroo and The National Front

Reign Over Me: Adam Sandler In A Bob Dylan Wig, Waving Not Clowning