The Academy Awards at 93
This year, as every year, The Academy Awards confirm the saying, “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the ...
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Bruce Dern and the wonderful Lena Olin grapple with family, fame, art and Alzheimer’s
The Artist’s Wife (from April 30, on digital flatforms). Cert TBC, 96 mins. It is a terrible irony that, dementia, the cruellest disease inflicted on older people, has spawned a sub-genre in cinema an ...
DVDs: The Elephant Man, The Windsors, Nights of Cabira and White Sheik reviewed by Robert Tanitch
THE ELEPHANT MAN (SudioCanal). David Lynch’s disquieting 1980 film is notable for its compassion. In 1886 John Merrick, body and face, hideously deformed was admitted to the London Hospital. Dr Freder ...
Popes, Clowns, Whistleblowers, Politicians, Pimps and Buddhist Monks
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest films released on DVD and streaming services The Two Popes (Netflix). Pope Benedict resigns. No pontiff has done that for 600 years. Anthony McCarten’s excellent scre ...