August at the movies
Joyce Glasser gives us a round up of the August movies If Ruth & Alex, which was released at the end of July, makes it into August, it will mark the first time in film history when two English spe ...
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Films by John Boorman, Alexander Mackendrick, Georges Franju and Orson Welles
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs QUEEN AND COUNTRY (Artificial Eye) is a belated sequel to John Boorman’s autobiographical and nostalgic Hope and Glory (1987). He looks back to the time when he ...
Snake in the Himalayan mountains causes two deaths
Robert Tanitch reviews La Bayadere at London Coliseum Marius Petipa’s faux oriental extravaganza, one of the great 19th century ballets, had its premiere in St Petersburg in 1877, the year Queen Victo ...
Ang Lee’s “Father Knows Best” trilogy is a treat
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs THE ANG LEE TRILOGY (Altitude) is a box-set containing the Taiwanese director’s earliest films which established his international reputation. They are full of b ...