Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Lisa Taylor


ph: Patrick Demarchelier

New Stuff: Nature


Jessiann Gravel Beland


ph: Chris Craymer

The Theory of Everything (2014)



A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

Despite the title, this well-produced movie focuses on the couple's relationship and skips the science; period detail is excellent, and the main attraction are Redmayne and Jones' performances.

Ella Wennström


ph: Rebecca Naen

New Stuff: The New Yorker


(art: Chris Ware)

Lisa Seiffert


La vieille dame insigne (1965)


A newly widowed 70-year-old miser has lived a sheltered life married to her husband for some sixty years, but determines to venture into the modern world and have as much fun as possible, and in doing so finds that she loves it.

Carefully adequate adaptation of a Bertolt Brecht story, filmed in a cinéma vérité style and with a good cast, but Sylvie in the title role steals the show.