{"id":672969,"date":"2026-07-04T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672969\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:24:08","slug":"mad-directors-and-erotic-sharks-my-fifty-years-as-a-film-critic-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672969\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad directors and erotic sharks: my fifty years as a film critic &#8211; The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxOcjdOM0NZR0hBMG1tckhHYXQ2TE9NQkk0SHNKYzdIMGt6Rl9QOFlnVmZVWVg4MEtYVWREdXNuT0tUSlhvLVhITnNjSzBORTlWZEF2eFZIMk01RVVyR0xmVUR4VjZlWE9XWERVYjZFQmhVcnVoOWlrUWphZ3ZLQ3BPWjdRZWViU2VVWmJwRnMxTTQ5cWJNNzFpN0tHMnFQWXQzTzRhcWdJUnhzUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mad directors and erotic sharks: my fifty years as a film critic<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxPNXVVRmFqU1psZzRTcl82aXJudXNreWlCN2NoYUlfSXg0YXBHSTNWZDJLb052NUpCQmtsVU9MT3JGSTVHVk1KbHJ0Qmx5MXg5azRoRXhXbHJSN0VUNEVWSERJQk51V0lmMWJqOTlELUFsNXdhOGc5RGVJbEp1WXh4emdMTDRxUWtMTjM1clU4a01FczMwR21LY2JPRjFuS0lm?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Movies Are Good, Actually<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Atlantic<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2gFBVV95cUxPRkFNaWtMX25OelUwY0hQRVhNWS1jMEVUbkZHZTBZMzBwWk5WV3UtREQyVVhCMTR5Y21ibkF5M09GOWZWNlNjT3l4VldqQWpRSnIzMXFhdTZGSzI2VEJTNTVsNjhmU28wOUZGY0ZTVDVZd0hzc2lITUlpSV9TTHhqZFp1YUdyMWRYX0tvVXNkWlg2MFJFQnRuZ05JaHpLVWE2S1luSUxkNmtrZ2ZHUTlKTW9oVnZNZlpLNnA2Tl95SVYxaC0xS0NRRlN3eWVtYkc3dFdaQWJ6UmU1dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of the Movies \u2013 big screen questions<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxNd3Q3SjhBOEdIcnRtNGx4LXZGcmVzUTlVTlZTbmRJTTFmaW9STjh3N3U5amFvR2dScmVxOUNQcmVVSTRfRWhZTGp6VUVVN1hMYnhHRHdFN2NSNVVuVTQ4NS12Z3ByVWk0SUR4bDRaaDktYzR1bHdwQ3JGWGRpRTRHcWFLTndVWHR6VHRwN2M3QjM2a04xcnI3WWhkaw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A century of movie magic: how cinema has changed the way we think<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Spectator<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAJBVV95cUxPSU03bzNKSTR4QWRrelR2YUF1VUNmU0FUSnJrQ1FrbEFLdDF4Q3hnUGFWRTRHTDROWXh4V1VDNmdzSHlrSHZsaGswcEp0NzQ4d19PNlZmVzF0bmR4aGVxZkRBc2JsNUFfV3ZFekJDZ1NzdWh5dTFqcWpjaGFSczYtM1FQS0Y1bE1TX2RYNlBSODZEbU93dlo1Y1dhUVZqQkM3bmlPQ1JQWlFQSlV3cm1mMGV5VGdJcjlXY1hLV04tOEFVQkt3WTZDQ0ViUGJKMlZ4dGJIYk1EZk1IN25SaUNLbnV1VjJUS2s0YXVKM183cnloNkIxNGZ4NjM4U19abFVsUU5Hekp6cktCNjJCVlVkdEQ2VFU0MHd2Q0Mycw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Film historian David Thomson\u2019s A Sudden Flicker of Light casts an eclectic thread from Norma Desmond to Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mad directors and erotic sharks: my fifty years as a film critic&nbsp;&nbsp;The TimesMovies Are Good, Actually&nbsp;&nbsp;The AtlanticA Sudden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}