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Burt Lancaster is over his head and head over heels in Robert Siodmak’s terrific Film Noir

Criss Cross (1949) Cert 96, 88 mins. (available from June 22, 2020 on Blu-ray for the first time as part of the Masters of Cinema Series) to purchase follow this link. Everyone who has seen the great ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Royal Ballet’s Woolf’s Works on line

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Evidently not Wayne McGregor. Many others have attempted to stage and film her works and failed. McGregor’s three one-act ballets inspired by her novels, Mrs Dalloway, ...

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THE SHOE LADY LOCKDOWN THEATRE JUNE 13th 2020

How fantastic! Thousands of people can still “go to the theatre” to enjoy The Shoe Lady! Katherine Parkinson won’t hear their response to her wonderful, powerfully emotional performance, but sur ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews The Metropolitan New York’s Manon on line

Jules Massenet’s lush romantic score has kept Manon in the French repertoire ever since it premiered in Paris in 1884. This production, starring Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Carlo Bosi, Artur Ruc ...

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