Tag: Simon Russell Beale
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Would the world economy and financial system have been in better shape had Lehman Brothers been saved?
Robert Tanitch reviews The Lehman Trilogy at National Theatre/Lyttelton Lehman Brothers, the ultimate middle-men, have figured in many books, films, documentaries and even cartoons. Their bankruptcy triggered the largest financial […]
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Death of Stalin is a comedy of terrors
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The Death of Stalin (Entertainment One). Stalin dies 5 March 1953. There is nobody to save him. All the best doctors are in the […]
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Armando Iannucci’s brilliant and hilarious new political satire
Joyce Glasser reviews The Death of Stalin (October 20, 2017) Cert. 15, 104 min. The first time I saw political satirist Armando Iannucci’s (In the Loop, Veep, The Thick of It) […]
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Films set in France, Britain, Italy, Germany, Chile and Japan
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Versailles The Complete Series One & Two (Acorn). 28-year-old King Louis XIV, the Sun King, commissions the most beautiful and lavish palace in Europe […]