Entertainment & Arts
Cyril Cusack, widely regarded as Ireland’s finest actor, died Thursday at his London home after a long illness, his family said.
Oct. 9, 1993
Movies
While BBC veteran Les Blair’s 1993 film lacks the bite of similar Mike Leigh films (“Life Is Sweet” and “Naked”), it shares with them an ability to put strongly drawn and alive folks on the screen.
Aug. 10, 1997
Les Blair’s 1993 film offers a comic look at a love relationship that is wearing thin around the edges and makes few demands other than asking that we settle in for the duration.
Aug. 28, 1994
Archives
June 4, 1995
Most movies are so bland that occasionally the sheer differentness of a plot, an idea, a character can count for a lot.
Feb. 24, 1994
Not much happens in “Bad Behaviour” (Music Hall) but what does is very easy to take.
Sept. 29, 1993
From the mannered opening sequence of “The Sea” to its anticlimactic conclusion, the movie’s capital-L literary provenance couldn’t be more evident.
July 6, 2017
“Waterland” (citywide) is a rarity--a movie about mood and memory that doesn’t send you into a stupor.
Nov. 6, 1992
On Broadway in ‘Impressionism,’ Irons turns to what he’s moved to portray: the damaged soul.
March 22, 2009
Off-kilter is still Jeremy Irons’ calling