Category Archives: Boulogne

So Fashionable

Posted on May 17, 2007 by robhunt510

Thursday has long been the new Friday in England; but today in northern France it is the new Sunday. Anne-Marie at Boulogne Tourism explains why the streets have that empty early on in a George Romeo movie feeling. “It is … Continue reading →

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Anti-formula

Posted on May 17, 2007 by robhunt510

Jeanette is tired, “It is a lonely life waiting for guests,” she says, dragging on a long cigarette. “They come, and then they are off to the centre, to the old town. It is empty here for long hours.” She’s … Continue reading →

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Escape From Clooney

Posted on May 17, 2007 by robhunt510

I used to want to write a film titled, Escape From Sting: the Whole World is My Prison. Sting was everywhere a few years ago. Everywhere. But mostly in elevators. Now I’ve found the sequel: Escape from Clooney.

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Hills

Posted on May 17, 2007 by robhunt510

Boulogne’s hilly old town auditions for the remake of Don’t Look Now In the old town high above the shopping malls of Boulogne I catch the first whiff of Tom Coryat; a smell that eluded me in Calais – as … Continue reading →

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The Taste for Others’ History

Posted on May 17, 2007 by robhunt510

In the upstairs rooms of Calais’ Museé des Beaux Art, under the general title of Les Liaisons Heureuses there are pieces by Joseph Beuys, Picasso, and Andy Warhol. But I am taken with a work by Annette Messager. A “History … Continue reading →

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