Showing posts with label Dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dance. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Strictly finalists ?

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Our 2017 season of  STRICTLY COME DANCING  is coming to a close, with the semi-final this weekend. Here are three sizzlers from last week...
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Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Strictly 2017

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Another year, another BBC dance  marathon for  winter weekends: STRICTLY COME DANCING . Of course  after 15 years with 15 contestants each ...
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Monday, 6 February 2017

New year re-views 5: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

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LA LA LAND got me in the mood for those Jacques Demy musicals once again - we love THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG , but even more, his 1967 TH...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Festive cheer

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Our Strictly Come Dancing marathon is finally over, with the deserving winner Ore Oduba, a BBC sports presenter who had never danced befor...
Monday, 14 November 2016

Strictly groovy

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Daisy and Aljaz may have now left the STRICTLY COME DANCING marathon, but I LOVED their routine last night, a terrific dance - and dig ...
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Friday, 11 November 2016

Strictly, mid-season report ...

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We are now halfway through our annual dance fest STRICTLY COME DANCING , and the weaker contestants have been weeded out, so its hotting ...
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Monday, 17 October 2016

RIP, continued ....

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Andrzey Wadja (1926-2916), aged 90. The venerable Polish director whose ASHES AND DIAMONDS was an international arthouse sensation in 1958...
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Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Strictly 2016 ...

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Its that time again, when our annual television dance marathon begins for the autumn months, every weekend for the run up to Christmas. 15 ...
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Sunday, 11 September 2016

RIP: Clubbing

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That seems a spectacular own goal by the London licencing authorities - just as London becomes an all-night city (well, at weekends anyway ...
Sunday, 20 December 2015

Dance dance dance

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The behemoth is over for another year - BBC's STRICTLY COME DANCING ended with three worthy finalists - but we all knew Jay an...
Thursday, 17 December 2015

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

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A midwinter treat ...... I simply love this movie, as per reiews - Deneuve, Dorleac, Demy labels.  Click the full-screen icon to see it w...
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Saturday, 14 November 2015

More dancing treats

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How about these fantastic numbers from last week's STRICTLY COME DANCING , the BBC's top UK dance show, running from now to Christm...
Monday, 19 October 2015

Strictly 2015, a progress report ...

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Its that time of the year again here in the UK - as the BBC flagship programme STRICTLY COME DANCING gets into its stride as this year...
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Friday, 20 March 2015

Party like its 1999 ...

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It looks like we won't be seeing the current eclipse, its too cloudy here in the London area, but it looks great on television from o...
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Monday, 16 March 2015

Lost in clubland - an occasional series

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Nightclub flier from the 1990s .... this was Heaven, in London. I've been wrecked there a few times myself! 
Sunday, 15 March 2015

Dermot's red nose ...

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Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in respons...
Thursday, 5 February 2015

Bolero, 1934

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An exquisite treat from 1934: Carole Lombard and George Raft in BOLERO . I knew Raft had been a dancer (like Clifton Webb) but had not ...
Thursday, 18 December 2014

Christmas treats: Strictly Come Dancing

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Since October we have been enjoying the annual BBC dance competition " Strictly Come Dancing " each weekend (in America its ...
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Saturday, 22 November 2014

The blue dress and the red shoes

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Just one marvellous costume from Michael Powell's THE RED SHOES that 1948 delirious movie - no wonder its a Scorsese favourite - f...
Monday, 27 October 2014

Falling for Fred & Ginger again ...

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It was fun discovering those Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals back in the Sixties, when I was a young movie buff. Back then one ei...