EMMA (Universal Pictures). “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” said Jane Austen. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich, snobbish, spoiled, conceited, patronising and ...
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Radioactive (on digital download from June 15, 2020) Cert 12A, 109 mins. There have been previous big screen adaptations of the life of Marie Curie from 1943’s Madame Curie (starring Greer Garson) to ...
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Jules Massenet’s Thais premiered in Paris in 1894 and was revised in 1898. The opera is based on Anatole France’s best-selling novel which was published in 1890. Religious eroticism is always good for ...
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The sultan’s favourite wife is caught in flagrante delicto with a Negro slave. Orientalism was in vogue and sex and violence have always been popular, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had a huge success wit ...
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