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Roma named Film of the Year by the London Film Critics Circle

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Roma (Netflix) is already a multi award-winning Mexican domestic drama. Alfonso Cuarón, director, writer and editor, looks back to his childhood and his parents’ ...

markbendle 855 views 0 likes Jan 23, 2019

Venice looks absolutely beautiful. See Venice and die

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The Comfort of Strangers (StudioCanal). Paul Schrader directs this adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel. The setting is Venice. Is the scenario going to be another D ...

markbendle 710 views 0 likes Sep 24, 2018

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 1057 views 0 likes Sep 17, 2018

A skilful adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel raises troubling issues

Joyce Glasser reviews The Children Act (August 24, 2018) Cert. 12A, 105 min. In British filmmaker Daniel Kokotajlo’s debut feature, Apostasy released last month, a dutiful Jehovah’s Witness (JW) in ne ...

markbendle 907 views 0 likes Aug 24, 2018