Two Sisters: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Revisited (for Parterre Box)
As Blanche Hudson might have said, “It’s still a pretty good picture”… and then some!
Going South: Looking at Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (for Parterre Box)
Another installment in our series on Bette Davis brings us to the second thriller in the famous Robert Aldrich diptych.
On the Wings of Eagels: More Versions of Maugham’s The Letter on Film (for Parterre Box)
Jeanne Eagels and Siobhan McKenna show that there are many ways to write The Letter.
Youth Comes to the Fore: Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (for Parterre Box
In one of her earliest film performances, already: “The girls got something!”
A Necessary Luxury: Katharine Hepburn in Holiday and The Philadelphia Story (for Parterre Box)
David and Cameron discuss some of the greatest comedic performances ever filmed.
Whatevah Shall We Do with Mothah?: The Lion in Winter with Hepburn and O’Toole (for Parterre Box)
David and Cameron turn their attention to one of Katharine Hepburn’s most famous performances.
Rust, Bones and the Wind: A Delicate Balance with Hepburn and Scofield (for Parterre Box)
The exceptionally fine acting in this film survives the test of time better than Albee’s play.
Martius, Martius, Martius: Coriolanus from Donmar Warehouse via NT Live (for Parterre Box)
This sensational production streams for one week only on YouTube.
Get Off at Elysian Fields: Brando & Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (for Parterre Box)
Nearly 70 years after its debut, A Streetcar Named Desire remains the greatest stage-to-screen adaptation of all time.
Don’t Turn the Light On!: Jessica Lange in A Streetcar Named Desire (for Parterre Box)
More on the Williams’ classic, this time a 1995 TV adaptation, derived from a Broadway revival.
