11 DECEMBER 1976, page 29

Opera Plot

Clancy Sigal The Spider's Stratagem (Academy Two) The London Film Festival (NFT) The Spider's Stratagem (A certificate) is staged, shot and scored like a Verdi opera. In almost......

Brandt Image

John McEwen Bill Brandt's pre-1960 photographs look better and better as the years go by, so any oPportunity to look at them whether in a hook (ten years out of print now) or in......

Switched Off

Richard Ingrams The Punk Rock affair and the ignominious suspension of Bill Grundy may do some good if it draws attention to the extraordinary state of affairs currently......