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Joyce Glasser reviews The BAFTAs 2017

Joyce Glasser reviews The BAFTAs 2017

With Prince William as the President of Bafta (a shrewd move for an organisation that was never intended to be a charity and devotes enormous resources to ensuring that it does not lose that tax free ...
Another fine mess

Another fine mess

Laurel and Hardy, kings of comedy and the ultimate double act. The actual history of the duo may be less well known but one contemporary actor has taken on the persona of English born Stan Laurel and ...
Peter Greenaway’s best film in years

Peter Greenaway’s best film in years

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO (Axiom). The great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein (played by a flamboyant, charismatic Elmir Back) goes to Mexico in 1931 to film Qu ...
Books on Shakespeare

Books on Shakespeare

ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND UP OF BOOKS No 8 THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN by Roy Strong (Thames & Hudson £14.95). Do you know a bank where the wilde thyme grows? Are you as mad about rosemary, fe ...