Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews The Thief Collector (from March 31 on Prime Video), Cert 12, 96 mins. It’s a shame this film is not getting a cinema release because the theft of Willem de Kooning’s Femme Ochre ...
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QUEEN of SPADES (StudioCanal.) This excellent British melodrama, directed by Thorold Dickenson in 1948, is based on Pushkin’s 1834 novel and excellently acted. Faro, a once famous card gambling game, ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews EO (February 3, 2023) Cert 15, 88 mins. You don’t normally associate animal movies with older film directors. Walt Disney, whose recipe for success was a few tragic tears but a h ...
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