March 21st, 2012 posted by Howard Booth
Lawrence’s play The Daughter-in-Law is widely held to be one of the most important British plays written between the 1890s and the 1950s. Productions are not exactly ten a penny, so this one by Library Theatre at the Lowry was very welcome. Though excellent in some respects it did show that we still don’t have [...]
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March 17th, 2012 posted by Ian Pople
The Jury in Cannes were obviously feeling that films should be on the slow side last year. Having given the Palme D’Or to Terence Malick’s ‘Tree of Life’, they gave the Grand Jury Prize to this very, very slow, exquisitely shot film from Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Ceylan’s film lives almost entirely in real time. [...]
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