https://mrqe.com Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:47:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/alan-clarke-his-own-man-m100015412/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/alan-clarke-his-own-man-m100015412/ British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone – Stephen Frears even called him the best. And yet Clarke only ever made 3 feature films. This documentary explores the life and career of an exceptional director – Alan Clarke.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/joan-didion-the-center-will-not-hold-m100122019/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/joan-didion-the-center-will-not-hold-m100122019/ Griffin Dunnes years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/joe-papp-in-five-acts-m100101032/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/joe-papp-in-five-acts-m100101032/ Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theaterarguably the most important theatre in North Americais profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of Americas greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of Americas most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.

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