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David Bowie's controversial ‘The Next Day’ video ‘mistakenly’ removed from YouTube
Thursday 09 May 2013
The latest music video from David Bowie, which shows the performer dressed as Christ alongside Gary Oldman as a debauched priest and Marion Cotillard as a prostitute, was ‘mistakenly’ removed from YouTube due to its graphic content.
David Bowie comes face to face with his younger self and Tilda Swinton in 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)' video
Tuesday 26 February 2013
David Bowie comes face to face with his younger self in a new video for his latest single.
Films of the Week: George Clooney finds his perfect life cut down to size
Saturday 23 June 2012
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Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan: The queens of mean go teen
Thursday 07 June 2012
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Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Wednesday 06 June 2012
I’m dragging my damp feet a little on the way to the Royal Academy’s 244th Summer Exhibition: I don’t tend to enjoy seeing those beautiful galleries stuffed ceiling-high with thousands of uninspired animal paintings, still lifes and landscapes, and I find the show’s lack of engagement with new media (if we can still even call it that) borderline perverse.
Tom Sutcliffe: Wes Anderson is so animating
Saturday 02 June 2012
I finally "got" Wes Anderson the other day. Which is not to say that I hadn't "got" him before – in the sense of liking his work and always being willing to substitute his vision of the world for mine for an hour or two. Though I'm not very fond of fey art-house whimsy (see references to Miranda July passim), there has always been something about.
Man with the child in his style
Friday 25 May 2012
Wes Anderson's films are as formally distinctive as Peter Greenaway's, and sometimes as maddening. They are pictorial things, but less in the way of a film than, say, a graphic novel. Where Greenaway thinks like a painter, Anderson uses the camera like a cartoonist, each frame hyper-composed in colour and composition, an eccentric mini-work of art in itself. What the frames don't have is much sense of physical or emotional movement from one to another. It's the same with the dialogue. People in Wes World don't overlap in their conversation – a character says something, then there's a pause, then another character replies. Again, it's like the thin white lines dividing one box from another in a comic strip. Some find the effect very charming.
Moonrise Kingdom (12A)
Friday 25 May 2012
Wes Anderson, 94mins. Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Edward Norton
Red carpet dressing: Fan Bing Bing and Tilda Swinton certainly Cannes
Friday 18 May 2012
Fan Bing Bing
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Saturday 05 May 2012
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DVD: We Need to Talk About Kevin, For retail & rental (Artificial Eye)
Sunday 26 February 2012
Lynne Ramsay's bold adaptation of Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel was the most powerful British film of 2011.
DVD: We Need to Talk About Kevin (15)
Friday 24 February 2012
"There is no point. That's the point," Kevin points out. Nihilism and annihilation reign in Lynne Ramsay's suitably harrowing adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel.
Love without strings
Tuesday 06 December 2011
Open relationships: Love without strings
Tuesday 06 December 2011
You're happily married, but both free to have sex with other people. Are open relationships the answer to modern matrimony – or just a recipe for divorce?
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