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Monthly Archives: February 2011
GREENLAND National Theatre/Lyttelton
A play about climate change needs the sort of information, debate and wit Bernard Shaw used to employ in his plays. Instead four writers present a number of story-lines and not one of them engages. The snow storm will only … Continue reading
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London Stage in the Nineteenth Century
The book is an illustrated record decade by decade, year by year, of great actors, famous performances, major premieres, celebrated revivals, and spectacular productions.
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ARSENAL (Mr Bongo).
Russian silent classic of special interest to film buffs, historians and photographers. Alexander Dovzhenko’s film of the civil war in the Ukraine in 1918 is a series of powerful images, stunningly composed and framed, and the craggy faces in enormous … Continue reading
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BRIGHTON ROCK (Optimum).
Don’t bother with the new and updated version of Graham Greene’s novel. See instead the original 1947 film, which is so much better and so much seedier. There are brilliant performances by the young Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown, the … Continue reading
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EQINOX FLOWER and THERE WAS A FATHER (BFI).
This Japanese double-bill by Yasujiro Ozo, formal and static, always beautifully designed, is notable for its restraint and subtle observations of Japanese life. In the first a father is determined to choose a husband for his daughter. Directed and acted … Continue reading
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ANOTHER YEAR (Optimum).
Mike Leigh’s slice of middle-class British life observes the haves and the havenots in his characteristic improvised manner. Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen are cast as a happily married middle-aged couple whose kindness and patience is tested to the limit … Continue reading
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OF GODS AND MEN (Artificial Eye)
OF GODS AND MEN is based on the true story of the French monks in a remote village in Algeria in 1996 who were murdered by fundamentalist terrorists. Xavier Beauvois’s film explores why they remained when they were given an … Continue reading
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DOWNTON ABBEY (Universal).
Social status in the Edwardian era was as important downstairs with the servants as it was upstairs with the aristocracy. The villains are just a bit too villainous and the story-lines are often melodramatic; but Julian Fellowes provides a rich … Continue reading
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