“Billing German art cinema, Herr Cream? Bit bourgeois, isn’t it?” Well, a) it’s a lean old week as regards our usual fare, and b) this is rather good as it goes. Gay-as-you-earn director Rainer Fassbinder does his usual ‘doomed woman’ thing, this time with a faded pre-war actress kept prisoner by a drug-dealing scientist. Homage to said Golden Age is paid via singularly fantastic black-and-white photography and some lovely old-fashioned circular wipes between scenes.
Veronika Voss
1982
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The Legendary Bing Crosby
Tuesday, 23.00, Sky Arts 2Doubtless Sky Arts have shown this a thousand times, and probably another channel before that, but we’re a bit quiet this week so it gets in. It’s Bing with all his mates, including Dino and Frank and Bob and of course Dame David, suitably seasonal for this time of year. We don’t know if it’s got him being impressed by Pan’s People, though.
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