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The Lesson 2023
A drawing room drama that depicts the downfall of a great writer. The plot is patently absurd. A tutor (Daryl McCormack) is hired to help the writer's young son get into Oxford, but he's really there to help the writer. Richard E Grant, the writer in question, provides the wit and humor the script lacks. Julie Delpy plays his long-suffering wife. Director Alice Troughton uses Isobel Waller-Bridge’s violin-heavy score to drive events forward. Grant is the heavy, Delpy diabolical enough to outsmart him.
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The Unmaking of a College 2022
Those of us worried about the future of American democracy might do well to take a look at a new documentary that chronicles a smaller but no less perilous experiment in representative government. THE UNMAKING OF A COLLEGE (2022) tells the story of Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school in Amherst, MA that nearly closed just before the pandemic. Hampshire has a radical philosophy of education. Professors don’t lecture; they advise. Students design their own curriculum and there are…
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Penthouse 1933
1933 precode film starring Warner Baxter as a lawyer and Myrna Loy as a call girl. Baxter isn't afraid to mix it up with gangsters. Loy displays her dry sense of humor. Nat Pendleton plays Baxter's gangster friend. They have a running bit in which Baxter calls him a dirty minded rat. The gangster in turn calls him angel. As Baxter goes down a few pegs in class, he goes up a few pegs in happiness and falls in love with Loy. Who wouldn't? She looks great.
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Albatross 2011
One hour and 30 minutes. Jessica Brown Findlay plays Emelia, a shameless harlot determined to disrupt an innkeeper family by sleeping with the father & teaching the oldest daughter her wild ways. It works. The dad (Sebastian Koch) an author with writer’s block and one decent book to his name, falls for her. Emelia accompanies the daughter, Beth (the appealing Felicity Jones) to Oxford, where Beth successfully interviews and has a one night stand, but not in that order. Julia Ormond…
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