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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LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (BBC iPlayer). Christopher Hampton’s play was filmed in 1998 with an excellent cast. Laclos’s novel, published in Paris in 1782, caused a great scandal and sold out within a f ...
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Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 3 (2020) TOM STOPPARD A Life by Hermione Lee (Faber). Anybody who has enjoyed Stoppard’s plays will want to read Hermione Lee’s lengthy and astute biography. Ther ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Leopoldstadt at Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 Leopoldstadt, an intimate drama with an epic sweep, is an act of remembrance for people long forgotten. It is not biographical; but ...
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