Ralph Fiennes Archives - Mature Times

Keira Knightley is great as whistle blower Katharine Gun in this cathartic political thriller

Joyce Glasser reviews Official Secrets (October 18, 2019), Cert. 15, 111 min. Any political and/or courtroom thriller is more interesting when centered around a moral conundrum that prompts us to ask ...

markbendle 305 views 0 likes Oct 17, 2019

I want to be free! Russian ballet star defects from USSR

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The White Crow (StudioCanal). In 1961 23-year-old Rudolf Nureyev is in Paris with the Kirov Ballet, absorbing the culture by day with visits to the Louvre and No ...

markbendle 409 views 0 likes Aug 8, 2019

Ralph Fiennes dawns his director’s hat for a Nureyev biopic that shuffles around rather than soars

Joyce Glasser reviews The White Crow (March 22, 2019), Cert. 12A, 127 min. It has to be a coincidence that this week two biopics of two of the greatest male ballet dancers in recent memory are being r ...

markbendle 478 views 0 likes Apr 2, 2019

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo kiss away kingdoms

Robert Tanitch reviews Antony and Cleopatra at National Theatre/Olivier Shakespeare, Dryden, Berlioz, Sardou and Shaw have all written about Cleopatra and she has been played by such actresses as Sara ...

markbendle 862 views 0 likes Oct 11, 2018