I rather like it as a proto-brood - even when he's doing comedy...

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

5/5. There are moments where the film’s not exactly progressive sexual politics might make you wince, but this is still a romantic comedy full of very real pleasures. You can watch it here www.channel4.com/programmes/m...

4/5. V. K. Murthy’s cinematography for Dutt’s later films (including PYAASA and KAAGAZ KE PHOOL) might be more widely acclaimed, but all of his/Dutt’s trademarks are here. He uses a very mobile camera with great shots filmed from above and below the action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSCm...

3/5. A special shout-out for Yasmin aka Vinita Bhatt. She only appeared in a handful of films, but has the kind of screen charisma that should have propelled her to stardom - or at least a career of Eve Arden/Joan Blondell-type sassy smart-talkers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNkg...

2/5. The will-they/won’t they romance of Dutt and Madhubala (photo 2) is more than a match for the very best classic Hollywood pairings of the 30s and 40s. They’re a delight. Just watch their looks across a nightclub here www.youtube.com/watch?v=eei6...

That’s great to know. I haven’t seen it, but I love this photo that was taken during the interview

What a brilliant recording that is!

2/2. I hope that the destruction of Gaza is being fully documented right now and the films of it are preserved. In 100+ years time, people still need to be able to see the horror that innocent Palestinians have had (and continue) to endure and question how it was allowed to happen.

That sounds very compelling. The painting appears to show a subterranean cinema, so the info that this was a former wine cellar makes sense.

3/3. I wondered if the film on screen was an invention of Roberts, or whether it was based on an actual film? It looks very much like a western. Other than that, there appear to be very few clues.

2/3. Tate's catalogue states that the painting is "based on a small cinema in Warren Street which is now used as a television studio." But this map of London's silent cinemas - www.map.londonssilentcinemas.com/dhp-projects... - shows no evidence of a cinema on Warren Street. Any thoughts?

2/2. There's a vein of surrealism running through Jennings' films as he seeks strangeness in the everyday - such as the sequence of the kazoo band in SPARE TIME, also made in 1939. But today was the first time that I had seen one of his surrealist paintings. It's on display at Tate Britain.

The first half was full of richness and complexity that set up so many expectations. The second half was a chase film, albeit an exceptionally good one.