Tag: film
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Memoirs and reflections on the media and the UN
Note – this was addressed to my colleagues at the UN’s Video Section on my retirement, in 2023. Dear all I wanted to share a few thoughts after 25 years working with the UN family – 8 with UNICEF, a couple of years with UN News and OCHA – and then about 15 with UN…
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Dylan still unknown
Watched “A Complete Unknown” – the biopic of Bob Dylan, on the plane. I was disappointed. Yes, it is well acted, well filmed etc – but, for me, it is essentially a carefully made pastiche, a re-presentation of Dylan the public man as I already knew him – the myth. I found it dissatisfying. We…