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The devastating effects of divorce

The devastating effects of divorce

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs THE PAST (Artificial Eye). A husband (Ali  Mosaffa) and wife (Berenice Bejo), long separated, meet after a four year absence in order to divorce. Her lover (Taha ...
British Musicals of the 1930s (Network)

British Musicals of the 1930s (Network)

Robert Tanitch reviews four musicals on a double-disc DVD set BLOSSOM TIME (1934). An operetta about Franz Schubert’s life in Vienna in the 1820’s presents problems because very little is known about ...
American drama gets big emotional performances

American drama gets big emotional performances

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Entertainment on Video) Tracy Letts’s bitter, cynical saga is a classic American dysfunctional family drama with big, emotional stagy perfo ...