I CLAUDIUS (BBC iPlayer). Intrigue, murder and lust in ancient Rome. Trust no one. The legendary 1976 TV adaptation of Robert Graves’s novels, adapted by John Pullman and directed by Herbert Wise, hol ...
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THE WICKER MAN (StudioCanal), celebrating its 50th anniversary, is one of the best British horror movies; but it is not horror in the bloody Hammer Horror manner. It feels much more authentic. A polic ...
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Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), one-time male prostitute and art school model, writer, actor, raconteur, became a celebrity when John Hurt played him brilliantly on television in 1975 in a memorable, frank ...
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THE ELEPHANT MAN (SudioCanal). David Lynch’s disquieting 1980 film is notable for its compassion. In 1886 John Merrick, body and face, hideously deformed was admitted to the London Hospital. Dr Freder ...
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