Popped into my local bookshop on Saturday and was intrigued to see the slim volume above. It’s a treasure. ‘What is Sport?‘ (google books preview here) was written by Roland Barthes as the commentary to a Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary, made by the little known Hubert Aquin. Essentially, Barthes was invited to [...]

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So there’s an Uzbek billionaire trying to get his grubby sausage-fingered mits into the club I love. Outspoken ex-British Ambassador of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, posts some accusations about Usmanov’s past on his website which don’t paint Usmanov in a particularly pretty light. Usmanov’s City solicitors Schillings then bully Murray’s ISP into taking down his site [...]

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‘Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait’, by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno  over on cityofsound is a  great review of self-same film/portrait.  It’s as poetic and well-considered as the film is enthralling. I’ve only seen it on the big screen and now I’m going to have to get my hands on the DVD for that ‘making [...]

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