26 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 51

Opera

Eastern approaches Rodney MIInes O ne or two eyebrows have been raised at the English National Opera's staging Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures and hoping to generate some......

Cinema

Hope and Glory (15', Odeon Haymarket) War of liberation Hilary Mantel D irector John Boorman was six when the second world war broke out, and he remembers the moment of the......