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What really happened last year at Marienbad? You decide

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Last Year in Marienbad (StudioCanal). Premiered in 1961 the Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet masterpiece is still spellbinding. The setting is a chateau, a ...

markbendle 569 views 0 likes Sep 17, 2018

Annette Bening is a treat, but this adaptation of Chekhov’s play is underwhelming

Joyce Glasser reviews The Seagull (September 7, 2018) Cert. 12A, 98 min. A Tony Award winning playwright who is also a film director sounds like the right combination to tackle the first ever film ada ...

markbendle 649 views 0 likes Sep 11, 2018

An admirable, but flawed adaptation of Ian McEwan’s masterwork

Joyce Glasser reviews On Chesil Beach (May 18, 2018), Cert. 15, 110 min. One of the most surprising things about the feature film debut of the renown theatre director Dominic Cooke is not that it is r ...

markbendle 1388 views 0 likes May 18, 2018

Daniel Day-Lewis’s breakthrough performance came in 1985

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs My Beautiful Laundrette (BFI). Daniel Day-Lewis has announced his retirement. This is the film which made his name in 1985. He played a punk, ex-National Front l ...

markbendle 1118 views 0 likes Aug 18, 2017