by Web Editor | Oct 29, 2015 | Film
Writing in A Critical Century published in 2013 to mark our centenary. “Cinema was the art of the last century, not of this one. There is an undoubted sense of change in the air, a fin de siecle mood which is at least interesting though not productive. But I... 
by Web Editor | Oct 27, 2015 | Music
Luke-warm Debussy Richard Bratby A chamber version of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande: it should make perfect sense. The complexity of the relationships between Maeterlinck’s characters, the million delicate refinements of Debussy’s score: surely a scaled-down version... 
by Web Editor | Oct 25, 2015 | Film
Philip French – An appreciation Jason Solomons remembers Philip French, a longstanding and greatly respected member of the Critics’ Circle Film Section, who passed away on 27th October 2015. With an irony he would surely have appreciated, news of the death of... 
by Web Editor | Oct 21, 2015 | Music
Critics Mocked by Great German Orchestra Rick Jones Beginning not just a work, but an entire residency on the half-beat is a risk, but the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra arrived at the Barbican last night and picked up the bounce of Richard Strauss’ Don Juan as if they... 
by Web Editor | Oct 20, 2015 | Visual Arts
Clare Finn The prospect of an exhibition of portraits does not readily entice. Yet this show amply displays Goya’s abilities to pierce the conventions of the time with his sharply observant brush. Essentially self-taught Goya’s first major commission that began his... 