What happened in 1183?
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs THE LION IN WINTER (StudioCanal). It is Christmas in Chinon in 1183 and a royal game is being played out: who is going to be king when aging King Henry II dies? ...
DVD REVIEWS
Films by Miklós Janscó and Andrei Tarkovsky
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs ELECTRA, MY LOVE (Second Run). Hungarian director Miklós Janscó lived and filmed in a Hungary ruled by the Soviets and therefore knew all about the tyranny of re ...
Lady Susan is the most accomplished flirt in all England
Robert Tanitch review the latest DVDs LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Artificial Eye). Whit Stillman directs a charming and exquisitely costumed adaptation of Jane Austen’s epistolary novel, Lady Susan, writte ...
Six films by Pedro Almodóvar
Robert Tanitch reviews The Almodóvar collection (StudioCanal) 6 Disc Boxset Pedro Almodóvar, enfant terrible, cult filmmaker, Spain’s internationally most successful film director, is in the same scho ...