# alan bennett — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover alan bennett. Page: Feed: --- ## [Seeing Stars](https://picturegoing.com/?p=3711) _2026-05-04 · Luke McKernan · Picturegoing_ Source: Alan Bennett, extract from Alan Bennett, extract from ‘Seeing Stars’, London Review of Books, vol. 24 no. 1, 3 January 2002, pp. 12-16, reproduced in Untold Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2005), pp. 170-171 Text: I had no notion as a child that going to the pictures was a kind of education, or that Read More ## [Little Wilson and Big God](https://picturegoing.com/?p=1963) _2025-07-17 · Luke McKernan · Picturegoing_ Source: Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God (London: Heinemann, 1987), pp. 30-31 Text: At the age of six a social function was imposed upon me that had everything to do with entertainment, though not necessarily of the comic kind. On Queen’s Road there were two cinemas – the Rex and the Electric. They faced Read More ## [David Lean: A Biography](https://picturegoing.com/?p=3397) _2024-11-22 · Luke McKernan · Picturegoing_ Source: Kevin Brownlow, David Lean: A Biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1997 \[orig. 1996\]) p. 203 Text: I was making GREAT EXPECTATIONS down at Rochester when the first print came through \[of Brief Encounter\] … I suggested we ask the local theatre if they would run a preview. Rochester was a pretty tough town in Read More ## [It took nine tailors](https://picturegoing.com/?p=2900) _2024-11-16 · Luke McKernan · Picturegoing_ Source: Adolphe Menjou and M.M. Musselman, It took nine tailors (New York/Toronto: Whittlesey House, 1948), pp. 16-17 Text: Perhaps the years have added glamour and magnitude to my recollection of the Casino, for I still think of it as a Taj Mahal among restaurants. I have dined in some of the finest eating places in Read More ## [Journey Without Maps](https://picturegoing.com/?p=3721) _2024-11-10 · Luke McKernan · Picturegoing_ Source: Graham Greene, Journey Without Maps (London: Vintage, 2006 – orig. pub. 1936), pp. 15-17 Text: The cinema in Tenerife was showing a film which had been adapted from one of my own novels. It had been an instructive and rather painful experience to see it shown. The direction was incompetent, the photography undistinguished, the Read More ## [Seeing Stars](https://picturegoing.com/?p=3732) _2024-08-25 · Luke McKernan · Picturegoing_ Source: Alan Bennett, extract from ‘Seeing Stars’, London Review of Books, vol. 24 no. 1, 3 January 2002, pp. 12-16, reproduced with slight emendations in Untold Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2005), pp. 160-173 Text: In the 1940s within a mile or so of where we lived in Armley in Leeds there were at least Read More