No Part-Time Dreamer: A review of Anju Makhija’s New & Selected Poems by Debasish Lahiri
Poetry review – EARWIG COUNTRY: DA Prince is drawn into Angela Topping’s poems about memories and connections
Poetry review – THE NEW HERBAL: Nick Cooke finds a way through the complex poems in Fran Lock’s latest pamphlet
The Hop-Pickers. Review by Alan Price. Before director Ladislav Rychman made The Hop-Pickers (1964) Czech cinema had no tradition of the screen musical.
Poetry review –NAMING A HURRICANE: Charles Rammelkamp is astonished by the forceful and personal poetry in Madeline Artenberg’s new collection
THE BOOMING LOVELIES: Stephen Claughton visits one of London’s newer poetry venues at The Spice of Life
Rigoletto. Review by Julia Pascal. Concept is all. And director Jonathan Miller’s decision to set Verdi’s disturbing melodrama in 1950s New York Little Italy is genius.
Directed by Roman Polanski. Review by Alan Price. If you want to know what Roman Polanski was up to in the 1990’s (either to decry his artistic decline or applaud his re-invigoration) then Directed by Roman Polanski has to be seen.
Poetry review – SHAKING THE APPLE TREE: Kimberly K Williams considers an important collection of witness poems by Jane Simpson
Medieval Women. Review by Barbara Lewis. Between 1100 and 1600, Europe had 20 reigning queens. It produced numerous women who turned to religion to escape female servitude and gain influence and others who offered practical common sense to relieve the often fatal trauma of childbirth.
Pirates of Penzance. Review by Barbara Lewis. Sasha Regan’s all male operetta productions faithfully capture the febrile atmosphere of student interpretations in which adolescent boys, with raging hormones, play all the parts male and female, compounding the absurdity of Gilbert and Sullivan’s plots.
Emilia Perez. Review by Graham Buchan. A story about violence as a musical? A drug lord wanting to transition to a woman? A song by a Thai sex-change surgeon? A singer who cannot sing? A director working in a language he doesn’t know? None of it should work. But it does, brilliantly.
By Graham Buchan • film, year 2024 • Tags: film, Graham Buchan