The Habit of Art
Review of NTLive’s broadcast of London’s National Theatre production of The The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett with Richard Griffiths and Alex Jennings.
Reviews
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All’s Well That Ends Well
All’s Well that Ends Well – a review of the British National Theatre’s production, seen live in a cinema in Gothenburg on Thursday 1st October 2009 – the transcript of an audio recording.
Phaedre – with Helen Mirren
Review of the British National Theatre’s production and direct-feed broadcast of Phaedre made on 25th June 2009 and seen at Bio Roy in Gothenburg.
Star Trek: the re-booted version – a review
Star Trek rebooted. A review of JJ Abram’s reconception of the original Star Trek series – as the first episode in a series of big-screen films.
Revolutionary Road
Gothenburg International Film Festival 2009 Revolutionary Road is not Titanic despite Kate and Leo – and both of them have appeared in better films – but as a costume drama it’s certainly worth seeing Suffocation of youthful dreams by 1950s US middle-class norms. None of the characters really sympathetic – mostly rather pathetic. All immature … More…
Derek – Tilda Swinton on Derek Jarman
Derek: this blog’s first review – really more notes towards a review – I was attending the 2009 edition of the Gothenburg Film Festival.