Catholicism
Are You Having a Laugh?, BBC OneThursday, 28 March 2013How do we know Jesus Christ was a Jew? He was still living with his mum at 33 and she thought he was God Almighty. Are you offended? I sincerely hope not and profuse apologies if you are, but that was the first religious joke I remember from my... Read more... |
Damned by Despair, National TheatreThursday, 11 October 2012![]() Spain's Golden Age turns unaccountably to dross in Damned by Despair, the Tirso de Molina play that is a good half-hour shorter than the running time given in the programme but won't (in this production, anyway) ever be brief enough for some.... Read more... |
DVD: Corpo CelesteMonday, 10 September 2012![]() The onset of puberty is difficult, and especially so for girls in art house films. Marta is 12 and has been away from Italy for 10 years. In the days after returning with her mother and sister, she contends with being prepared for her first... Read more... |
Corpo CelesteFriday, 30 March 2012![]() Now here is something genuinely original and genuinely innovative coming out of Italian cinema, a very welcome surprise. Alice Rohrwacher’s debut feature film has a freshness of outlook and a sharpness of overview that could put many of her more... Read more... |
Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World, Modern Art OxfordTuesday, 20 December 2011![]() Graham Sutherland and George Shaw have two things in common. They are both painters and both are associated with Coventry: Sutherland made his famous altarpiece work – a tapestry – for the city’s rebuilt cathedral, while Shaw grew up in... Read more... |
We Have a PopeFriday, 02 December 2011![]() In his home country, the release of the latest film by Nanni Moretti is always an event, all the more so in the case of We Have a Pope – a bittersweet psychological comedy with tinges of tragedy about a cardinal who is elected to the throne of St... Read more... |
Yerma, Gate TheatreSaturday, 12 November 2011![]() If you didn't know Frederico García Lorca's Yerma before this show, you probably wouldn't be any better informed after watching Natalie Abrahami's engaging but flawed production. In “a new version by Anthony Weigh”, as it says on the programme cover... Read more... |
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