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The triumvirate has collaborated on 15 films, many dramatizing the abrasion of English and Indian cultures: Shakespeare Wallah, The Guru, Autobiography of a Princess. But the best-known Merchant Ivory movies could be called Anglo- English: stately adaptations from Henry James (The Europeans, The Bostonians), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and E.M...
At heart, though, this movie isn't an homage to anybody. Foster has her own confident style, her own cinema craft to create a world that is both familiar and unique. The look is cool and bright for Jane's scenes (she's the perky techno-mom), and warmer but...
Past Lloyd Webber extravaganzas concerned animals (Cats), machines (Starlight Express), wraiths (The Phantom of the Opera), icons (Evita) and divinities (Jesus Christ Superstar). His delicate and intimate new work, adapted from a 1955 novel by Britain's David Garnett, is about ordinary human beings learning life's painful lessons. The...
The deeper problem in Branagh's approach of demythologizing the plays and diminishing their epic heroes to shopkeeper scale -- as he also determinedly does in the film Henry V -- is that he tends to conceal or cut out the glories that make Shakespeare unique. Lear, for example, drops much of...
THE CIRCLE. Rex Harrison, 81, gives an elegantly understated turn in Somerset Maugham's beguiling Broadway comedy of marital scandal and autumnal passion. Stewart Granger and Glynis Johns co-star.