Film (2014)
Directed by Morten Tyldum
With Benedict Cumberbatch,
Keira Knightley
A very well done, though dramatically liberalized, account of Alan Turing and the Enigma Project – which sought to decode Nazi communications during the Second World War – and the associated emergence of Turing’s invention, the first modern computer.
Wild
Film (2014)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Based on the memoir
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012)
by Cheryl Strayed
With Reese Witherspoon,
Laura Dern
A film based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir about hiking the 1100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo in 1995.
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
Play (2000)
by Charles Busch
Directed by Larry Coen
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
November 21 – December 20, 2014
An entertaining production about an upscale New York neurotic who, with her husband, becomes an unlikely adventurer in lifestyle when an old friend appears on the scene.
Awake and Sing
Play (1935)
by Clifford Odets
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
November 7 – December 7, 2014
A beautifully rendered production of the early Chekhovian outing by the twenty-five year old Odets.
The Theory of Everything
Film (2014)
Directed by James Marsh
Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
Based on the memoir
Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen
by Jane Hawking
With Eddie Redmayne and
Felicity Jones
A beautifully acted, but somewhat romanticized, biopic about Stephen Hawking, the world-famous British cosmologist who has suffered from ALS for the past fifty years.