Alastair Sim is the definitive Scrooge
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs SCROOGE (Renown). There have been countless stage, film and television versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, ever since it was first published wi ...
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Racism in London, New York and Paris
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVD releases POOL OF LONDON (StudioCanal). In 1951 Basil Dearden followed up The Blue Lamp with another crime story with strong London locations, this time Dockland ...
What happened in 1183?
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs THE LION IN WINTER (StudioCanal). It is Christmas in Chinon in 1183 and a royal game is being played out: who is going to be king when aging King Henry II dies? ...
Films by Miklós Janscó and Andrei Tarkovsky
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs ELECTRA, MY LOVE (Second Run). Hungarian director Miklós Janscó lived and filmed in a Hungary ruled by the Soviets and therefore knew all about the tyranny of re ...