Tag Archives: John Gielgud

Arthur – Russell Brand: fey, vain and just right for the part of a permanently wasted wastrel

Posted on 22 April 2011 by Jason Best

Just as Depression-era audiences lapped up the screwball comedy antics of the idle rich, so did cinemagoers at the height of the early-1980s recession warm to the tipsy exploits of Dudley Moore’s drunken playboy Arthur. Now that we’re once more … Continue reading →

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Joan Collins in Conversation

Posted on 18 April 2010 by Beth Williams

Last night I saw the fabulous Joan Collins in conversation at the BFI. Her special guest appearance was tied in to the BFI’s current Paul Newman season, and followed a screening of the Newman film in which she co-starred – … Continue reading →

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The Elephant Man

Posted on 21 January 2009 by Beth Williams

Couch Potato Pickings A congenital defect what was caused Joseph Merrick to develop the dreadful condition that earned him the name The Elephant man in Victorian London. This moving movie tells his heartbreaking story superbly. It always has me in … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Caligula on DVD

Posted on 6 October 2008 by Jason Best

It’s one of the most notorious films of the 1970s: a multi-million-dollar historical epic about the infamously decadent Roman emperor that boasted a script by novelist Gore Vidal, lavish sets by an Oscar-winning designer and a cast of distinguished British … Continue reading →

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