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← Back to all issuesGranta 86: Film
Summer 2004
This special issue of Granta is devoted to the cinema: its personalities and politics, movers and music. Featuring John Fowles, Andrew O’Hagan and Adam Mars-Jones and directors’ art.
From this Issue
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The French Lieutenant’s Diary
John Fowles
‘It was really just one visual idea: a woman standing at the end of the Cobb and staring mysteriously out to sea.’
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The Enemy
Tessa Hadley
‘She relished the thought of his rather ravaged fifty-five-year-old and oh-so-male head against her broderie anglaise pillowcases.‘
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Rats
Maarten ’t Hart
‘Only as I watched the little tugboat disappear towards IJmuiden, just west of Amsterdam, did I begin to have doubts about what had been proposed to me.’
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The Handbag Studio
Thomas Keneally
‘In Los Angeles in late October of 1980, I was feeling the strange, malign electricity the Santa Ana winds bring to the city.’
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In Lana Turner’s Bedroom
Gaby Wood
‘It was because it was night-time and raining that I decided to drive up to Lana Turner's old house in Beverly Hills.’
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Two or Three Things I Dunno About Cassavetes
Jonathan Lethem
‘Writing about Cassavetes feels like vocalese: putting lyrics to passages of jazz improvisation.’
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Little Durga
Shampa Banerjee
‘I groaned inwardly when anybody mentioned Pather Panchali and my small part in it.’
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Two Years in the Dark
Andrew O’Hagan
‘There's no right or wrong about this, there's only style.’
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Stay Up Late
Jim Lewis
‘She wanted to enjoy herself, she wanted to try, but she didn't know where to begin.’
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Germany
Chris Petit
‘From an early age I stalked movies for clues to a life I didn't understand.’
