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Philip Horne

Philip Horne is the co-editor of Thorold Dickinson: a world of film (Manchester University Press, 2008), and has written articles on a wide range of subjects, including telephones and literature, zombies and consumer culture, the films of Powell and Pressburger and Martin Scorsese, the texts of Emily Dickinson, and the criticism of F.R. Leavis. He is the main DVD reviewer for the Daily Telegraph. His books include Henry James: A Life in Letters (Penguin, 1999), and Penguin editions of Henry James' The Tragic Muse and Dickens' Oliver Twist. He is a Professor of English at University College London.

April 2018

  • Susie Boyt note books

    ‘Messy attics of the mind’: what’s inside a writer’s notebook?

    Scribbled observations, dinner party conversations, flashes of perception ... inspired by Henry James’s jottings, Paul Theroux, Susie Boyt and Amit Chaudhuri share their note-taking habits

December 2008

  • Christopher Walken dancing in King of New York

    DVD connections
    DVD Connections: Dance scenes in non-dance films

    Tis the season to twinkle your toes even when it's not fully appropriate, so to celebrate (and because King of New York is just out on DVD) here are the most intriguing examples of dance scenes in non-dance films. Your MC: Philip Horne

October 2008

  • Robin Williams as Theodore Roosevelt in Night at the Museum

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    Happy Birthday Mr President Roosevelt

    Philip Horne: Theodore Roosevelt would have been 150 today. We look back at his incarnations - real and fictional - on the big screen

  • Groucho Marx in Horse Feathers

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    DVD Connections: the 'professor movie'

    DVD Connections Biros at the ready: here's Philip Horne's lesson in that little-explored genre: the professor movie. Contains slides

  • Something happened

    Thorold Dickinson's 1949 film The Queen of Spades has been called 'a masterpiece' by Martin Scorsese - so why is his work not better known? Philip Horne celebrates a daring director who was beset by bad luck

September 2008

  • Vampyr

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    Kingdom of shadows: double exposure in vampire films

    Philip Horne

    The use of ghostly doubles in the representation of the undead has a long history. Perhaps it says something about the nature of cinema

August 2008

  • Colin Farrell and Brendon Gleeson in In Bruges

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    See Naples and die. Literally

    Philip Horne
  • Mos Def and Jack Black in Be Kind Rewind

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    Be Kind, Rewind to past masters

July 2008

  • john huston and daniel day lewis

    DVD connections
    There Will Be Blood relations

    Philip Horne

    In the first of a fortnightly new series, Philip Horne examines the cinematic ancestors of a newly-released DVD. This week: There Will Be Blood

October 2007

  • With friends like these ...

    Kathleen Burk's wide-ranging survey of Anglo-American relations, The Story of Britain and America, impresses Philip Horne.

December 2004

  • The dusty attic

    Philip Horne is not convinced of the authorship of Floyd R Horowitz's 'newly discovered' Henry James stories. But that does not mean that they are not worth reading.

May 2004

  • The sacred Wood

    Philip Horne is impressed by James Wood's call for a comedic moral seriousness in fiction, The Irresponsible Self

August 2003

  • Dust to dust

    Michel Houellebecq's sketch of alienation, Lanzarote, has some appeal for Philip Horne

January 2003

  • The borrowers

    Christopher Ricks examines the transfer of poetic power in his brilliant and witty study, Allusion to the Poets

February 2002

  • I'll show you mine...

    The verve and speed of Toby Litt's Exhibitionism catches the eye of Philip Horne, who is more than willing to pay for it

September 2000

  • Films that read like a book

    The mark of recognition of a classic piece of literature is when it is adapted as a movie. Although sometimes, says Philip Horne, the directors get it hopelessly wrong

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