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Classic Film Review: A Catfight for the (Middle) Ages — “The Lion in Winter” (1968)
It was a gilded age for high-minded British cinema, of larger than life actors taking on epics as heroes and antiheroes — a life of “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Becket,” “Cromwell,” a dash or two of Shakespeare, and “A Man for … Continue reading
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