The Metropolitan Opera House New York nightly streams operas for free, which is a great treat. I recently caught up with two of American composer Philip Glass’s minimalist opera portraits. Glass, one ...
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DUNKIRK (BBC iPlayer) is conscientious and sincere but lacks the passion and anger which had informed such masterpieces as All Quiet on the Western Front and Paths of Glory. The inherent weakness in t ...
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THE DIG (Netflix). World War II is about to break out. Mrs Edith Pretty, a rich landowner, invites Basil Brown, the local excavator to excavate the mounds on her property in Sutton Ho in Suffolk. He d ...
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THE PURSUIT OF LOVE (BBC iPlayer). Emily Mortimer writes and directs this mini-series adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel which follows the lives of an upper-class British family in the inter-war year ...
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