Simon McBurney brings dazzling technology to his Bulgakov adaptation but little clarity. A Sondheim evergreen, meanwhile, is as fresh as ever
Money matters: Photographer Mark Henley snaps the secretive world of Swiss banking
Saturday 11 February 2012
Thanks to the country's famous privacy laws, the Swiss banking industry holds colossal fortunes within its vaults. Photographer Mark Henley trains his lens on a high-finance haven. Click on the gallery above to see his images.
Tim Walker: Enough with the sparking, please
Saturday 03 December 2011
Video: Deadly tram crash 'kills five'
Sunday 28 August 2011
At least five people have been killed and more than 30 injured after a tram derailed in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
Man jailed over street punch
Tuesday 16 August 2011
A man who inflicted "catastrophic injuries" with a single punch in an unprovoked attack has been jailed for three years.
Edinburgh, a city with tramlines – but still no trams
Sunday 07 August 2011
Derailed Cambridge service finally goes live
Sunday 07 August 2011
We are sorry to announce that the bus due on platform one is running approximately two years late.
Peter Armitage to make Corrie return
Monday 01 August 2011
Peter Armitage is returning to 'Coronation Street'. The veteran actor will see his on screen alter ego Bill Webster come back to Weatherfield in September with partner Pam Hobsowth -whose return was revealed earlier this week - and announce the pair plan to marry.
The Appointment, By Herta Müller
Friday 29 July 2011
As serious-minded a piece of fiction as you might expect from a Nobel Prize winning author, Müller's 1997 novel takes place over the course of a tram ride as a woman travels to be interrogated by Ceausescu's secret police.
Council votes to back Edinburgh tram project
Friday 01 July 2011
Councillors have voted to partly complete the tram project in Scotland's capital.
Mick Jagger: The Photobook, By François Hébel
Friday 29 April 2011
What a curious idea to produce a photo-book that follows this somewhat passé figure from pouting adolescence through an extended girl-boy phase in the Seventies and the rock-aristo of the Eighties to his tram-lined old age. Why pick him when Keith has suddenly come from behind to become the quintessential Stone?
DVD: A Day in the Life, For retail (BFI Video)
Sunday 03 April 2011
In the 1950s and 1960s, John Krish made numerous short documentaries about British life, and the four compiled here are all either deeply moving, sparklingly funny, or both.
Montpellier: once and future city
Friday 25 March 2011
DVD: A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Postwar Britain by John Krish (E)
Friday 25 March 2011
"Never seen the sea before, it's got a funny smell to it," narrates one of the deprived children taken on an away-day to Weston Super Mare in John Krish's sumptuous 1961 short film, They Took Us to the Sea, one of four documentaries in this evocative collection, celebrating one of the unsung masters of British cinema.








