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/ 21 September 2001
Costume drama of the week:</b> In <i>The King Is Dancing</i>, Corbiau leaps from one scene to the next, without much bridging or build-up, and keeps the emotional temperature high. He all but dispenses with the recitative; the film is all arias, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 14 September 2001
A Knight’s Tale</i> is a load of preposterous bollocks. It is also highly enjoyable, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 7 September 2001
The fantastical world of James Bond gets brought down to earth in The Tailor of Panama, and the result is funny, tense, and coldly cynical, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 7 September 2001
Just as <i>Big Brother</i> mania takes hold in South Africa, <i>Series 7: The Contenders</i>, an American satire of "reality TV" shows, comes to the big screen, writes Shaun de Waal.
From its great opening credits on, Wayne Wang’s movie <i>The Center of the World</i> is a meticulous dissection of love, sex, power and the uneasy relationship between the sexes in today’s United States, writes Shaun de Waal.
The colonial belief that Africa was a continent without a history has given way, in some quarters, to the contention that it once harboured technologically advanced cultures aplenty. While there is still puzzlement about how the pyramids were built there is, in parallel, argument about exactly how African the ancient Egyptians were.
Tim Burton’s new hit version of Planet of the Apes is a massive spectacle that keeps the eye enthralled without, however, much engaging the mind or the heart, writes Shaun de Waal.