Tag: theatre
Drive My Car
Friday, February 11th, 2022 Film Reviews,Drive My Car is a long film, but possessed of such quiet intensity one barely notices the time slipping by. Another distraction is that the credits don’t appear until more than half an hour into the movie. By then we’ve stopped expecting them and they come as a surprise. Suddenly it seems that everything we’ve […]
Steirischer Herbst 2019: Grand Hotel Abyss
Thursday, October 10th, 2019 Art Column,Welcome to the Grand Hotel Abyss. The phrase was coined in 1933 by Marxist literary critic, György Lukacs, as a put-down of another group of Marxist intellectuals – the so-called Frankfurt School, whose ranks included luminaries such as Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas. Lukacs argued that the Frankfurt School practised a form of […]
The Met: Captured Live in HD/National Theatre Live
Saturday, December 14th, 2013 Film Reviews,For those who hesitate to keep up a subscription at the opera or the theatre the live broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and the National Theatre Live from Britain, are a pure pleasure. For less than $30 one can sample the very best these cities have to offer, getting ringside seats for shows […]
Frankenstein
Saturday, June 9th, 2012 Film Reviews, Other Writing,Frankenstein is one of those rare stories that seems to grow more meaningful with every passing year. Written by the eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, in 1816-17, it has the distinction of being both a literary classic and the ancestor of the two popular genres we know as horror and science fiction. It has always been recognised […]