ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies YOU MAY WONDER if the world really needs another version of the Dickens novel ‘Oliver Twist’.  David Lean directed a masterful adaptation in 1948 with Alec Guinness as Fagin, and the musical in 1968 waltzed off with the Oscar as the year’s Best Film. Roman Polanski is the man who […]

Hootananny, Inverness, 29 September 2005

Castle Gallery, Inverness, until 22 October 2005

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. MONSOON WEDDING director Mira Nair brings an unexpected flavour of India to her sprawling adaptation of the William Makepeace Thackeray classic. Sporting an impeccable English accent, Reese Witherspoon uses her doe-eyed charms to keen advantage as Becky Sharp, the scheming social climber who navigates the hidden dangers of the English […]

Lewis-born writer IAIN F. MACLEOD will see his new play open the brand new theatre space at An Lanntair in Stornoway.

GEORGE GUNN is a Caithness man born and bred, and the county is never far from the heart of his writing, whether in his poetry or in his theatre work. He began writing as a child, completed his first play for the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and launched Grey Coast Theatre Company in Thurso in 1992

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies DAVID CRONENBERG is one of the grand masters of world cinema. His personal signature is visible on every film he makes whether its the controversial ‘Crash’ (1996) or his astonishing version of fantasy classic ‘The Fly’ (1986). His films are all about human frailty and the horrors the lurk within […]

Ullapool, 23-24 September 2005

Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, on tour 2005

GILES SUTHERLAND looks back at proceedings at the Northlands Creative Glass 2005 Conference