Tom Burke Archives - Mature Times

Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir is innovative and chilling filmmaking as soul-searching

Joyce Glasser reviews The Souvenir (August 30, 2019), Cert. 15, 119 min. A painting in London’s Wallace Collection by Jean-Honoré Fragonard lends Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir its title and point of depa ...

markbendle 410 views 0 likes Aug 29, 2019

Ibsen’s Rosmersholm gets a rare and welcome revival

Robert Tanitch reviews Rosmersholm at Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2 August Strindberg declared Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmerholm was “unintelligible to the theatre public, mystical to the semi-educated b ...

markbendle 494 views 0 likes May 7, 2019

Do you remember John Mills drinking lager in the film or was it the advert you remember?

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Ice Cold in Alex (StudioCanal). World War 2 adventure directed by J. Lee Thompson. In 1942 an ambulance makes a 600 mile journey across the Libyan Desert from To ...

markbendle 1597 views 0 likes Feb 19, 2018

Love isn’t a dirty word in the L-shaped room

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The L-Shaped Room (StudioCanal) is in a sleazy boarding house in a tawdry 1962 Notting Hill Gate. The landlady is played Avis Bunnage (excellent) and her lodgers ...

markbendle 2596 views 0 likes Nov 27, 2017