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David Ryan

David Ryan

Which is better: Pixar’s Soul or It’s a Wonderful Life?

Disney’s latest movie is the Frank Capra classic for a lonelier age.

Dec 28, 2020

Which is better: Pixar’s Soul or It’s a Wonderful Life?

Dec 28, 2020

David Ryan

Let’s hear it for Rumpole’s liberalism

What would today’s puritans make of the straight-talking fictional British lawyer?

Aug 3, 2020

Let’s hear it for Rumpole’s liberalism

Aug 3, 2020

David Ryan

Journalists comforting the afflicted? Don’t make me laugh

I can’t shake the guilt of the ‘death knocks’ I did in the 90s

May 10, 2020

Journalists comforting the afflicted? Don’t make me laugh

May 10, 2020

David Ryan

Winston Smith and his multiple personalities

In 70 years, 10 very different actors have played the protagonist of George Orwell’s 1984. But will we ever see a Winston who isn’t white?

Aug 26, 2019

Actors Eddie Albert and Norma Crane, with director Paul Nickell and designer Kim Swados, publicise CBS’s 1953 TV play of 1984

Aug 26, 2019

David Ryan

My tiny, tiny role in Elvis Costello’s life story

Twenty years before I wrote a non-fiction book, a cheeky question earned me a place in someone else’s

Aug 25, 2019

Elvis Costello on stage in 2006

Aug 25, 2019

David Ryan

David Ryan

British writer, journalist and copywriter. Author of ‘George Orwell on Screen’. Talking head on Criterion’s ‘1984’ Blu-ray.

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