Happy End. Review by Alan Price. Oldritch Lipsky’s film Happy End technically has a tight control of its narrative – the reverse action is brilliantly used to evoke silent cinema comedy: a Mack Sennet madness gleefully backing off into a time before our hero’s crime.
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Poetry review – WHAT IS LEFT: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a harrowing chapbook by Bunkong Tuon
New York City Ballet at Sadlers Wells. Review by Julia Pascal. George Balanchine founded New York City Ballet and gave us classical technique without classical narratives. His work is described as neo-classic or even anti-classic. But since his death in 1983 the Company has been looking at other creatives to provide Company identity.
Poetry review – TOOK MY WAY DOWN, LIKE A MESSENGER, TO THE DEEP: Edmund Prestwich admires the intricacy of Linda France’s sonnet sequence linking the paintings of Leonora Carrington with the experience of lockdown
Face To Face (Bergman). Review by Alan Price. All Bergman enthusiasts will want to see Face to Face. It’s not one of his masterpieces but contains masterly passages sealed and crowned by Liv Ulman.
Poetry review – HIVE: Charles Rammelkamp is captivated by Suzanne Mercury’s poem which draws on numerology and apiculture
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