06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 12.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Marianne Faithfull is on the phone from her home in Putney, south-west London. She sounds exactly like you would expect: as husky as her singing on every album she has made for the past 40 years and, […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 08.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Fantastic fun … Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany in Wandavision. Photograph: Marvel Studios For those of you not entirely au fait with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wanda Maximoff (AKA Scarlet Witch in the original comics) and Vision […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 09.28 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Disco inferno … Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. Photograph: Echoes/Redferns I Feel Love (Mega Mix) – 1982Donna Summer The only criticism you can make of Giorgio Moroder’s motor-disco landmark is that it is too short. Enter like-minded […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 15.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It is ironic China is now trying to claim this film’ … a scene from 76 Days. In the opening scene of 76 Days, the extraordinary inside story of how Wuhan’s hospitals coped with the initial wave […]
20.24 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 21.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Damson Idris and Anthony Mackie in Outside the Wire Photograph: Jonathan Prime/Netflix Can an action film with a bold anti-war message also trade off the vicarious thrill of watching numerous bullet-strewn battle scenes? It’s an uneasy question […]
16.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 19.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I have a darkness I didn’t have before’ … Ben Chaplin at the National Theatre in London. Photograph: Rii Schroer/Eyevine Sitting in the Los Angeles sun in a T-shirt and a hoodie, Ben Chaplin has a coffee […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 10.04 GMT Sheep Shearing, 1951. Farm workers in Hafod y Llan do the job manually because mechanical shears crop the coat too short for the local climate. All photographs: Grace Robertson/Getty Images (except where indicated) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A group of girls in an Italian village, 1952 Facebook […]
11.59 GMT Last modified on Wed 13 Jan 2021 12.07 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Netflix’s film slate. In the latest skirmish of the streaming wars, Netflix has come out fighting. In a star-studded promotional video, the studio announced a staggering slate of original releases in 2021, with […]
15.16 GMT Last modified on Tue 12 Jan 2021 15.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rebekah: ‘As a young DJ I was kind of ruthless … at the cost of myself.’ Photograph: Camille Blake DJ Rebekah remembers the day she walked into a record shop in her native Birmingham to ask for […]
07.00 GMT Heidi: chimpanzee, Zoo Heidelberg, GermanyBehind Glass is an online exhibition by Anne Berry featuring captive primates across Europe. While she is not advocating against zoos, the apes and monkeys in Berry’s photographs look sombre. The exhibition runs until 31 January. To preorder the accompanying book, due in summer, visit anneberrystudio.com. All photographs: Anne Berry […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 12 Jan 2021 09.27 GMT Couple in MG By the Arno, Florence, Italy, 1951Ruth Orkin (1921-85) grew up in Hollywood in its 20s and 30s heyday. She was given her first camera aged 10 and began photographing her friends and teachers. She took a bicycle trip across the US to New […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 20.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Olly Alexander: ‘You can see how easy it is for a party lifestyle to turn into something negative.’ Photograph: Hugo Yanguela; Styling: Nick Royal Olly Alexander was so certain he was destined for success that he saw […]
11.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 10.15 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Life is fragile… I don’t take anything for granted’: Jasmila Žbanić. Photograph: Kemal Softic/AP The film director Jasmila Žbanić does not regard herself as a catastrophist. “I’m an optimistic person,” she says, smiling hard. But, like any […]
07.03 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 07.05 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lindsay Lohan in I Know Who Killed Me, a widely, wrongly maligned film. Photograph: Allstar/Tristar Pictures On 23 August 2007, Lindsay Lohan issued a statement to TMZ in the Hollywood dialect of professional contrition that hints at […]
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21.52 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 21.54 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tracy Chapman and Nicki Minaj. Photograph: GETTY IMAGES Nicki Minaj has agreed to pay $450,000 to Tracy Chapman over a copyright infringement dispute. The rapper had been set for trial after the singer sued her for using […]
07.21 GMT Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 07.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ted Danson and Bobby Moynihan in Mr Mayor. Photograph: Mitchell Haddad/AP The brilliance of 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s critically adored if criminally under-watched workplace sitcom, was not just in its breathlessly fast procession of inventive one-liners but […]
13.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Access all eras … (l-r) Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Jojo. Composite: The Guide In the CD era, a new album could keep pop stars busy for the best part of a half-decade. Beyoncé eked nine singles from 2008’s double-disc opus I Am… Sasha Fierce, […]
09.40 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 09.42 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email DaBaby performs for the MTV EMAs in October 2020. Photograph: Getty Images for MTV Chart-topping rapper DaBaby has been arrested in Los Angeles for possession of a loaded and concealed gun. The rapper, whose real name is […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 21.46 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email John Lennon and David Bowie at the 1975 Grammy awards. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage David Bowie and John Lennon first met in scenes more reminiscent of an awkward children’s playdate than a summit of two of rock’s greatest […]
10.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 10.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Headspace … like a Pixar dreamscape. Photograph: Netflix Those who subscribe to the notion of “new year, new me” will be familiar with the advice to empty your fridge and kitchen cupboards of junk food before 1 […]
16.37 GMT Last modified on Thu 7 Jan 2021 17.14 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The actor James Cromwell with (from left) his mother Kay Johnson, James Dean and Bob Dylan. Composite: Getty/Rex/Allstar/Warners/Guardian Design Team Bob Dylan I was born in 1940 and went to an American prep school, The Hill School, […]
11.30 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 08.16 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Hopefully more than a one-off experiment … Barry Gibb. Photograph: Desiree Prieto On the face of it, the notion of Barry Gibb releasing a country album seems peculiar. The Bee Gees were noted for their mastery of […]
11.38 GMT Last modified on Thu 7 Jan 2021 15.30 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Reinventing or reenacting? … Orwell’s Animal Farm. Photograph: Nerial In my version of Animal Farm, Boxer the workhorse doesn’t go to the knacker’s yard. He spends his retirement peacefully, following the abandonment of the windmill project. The […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 10.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It sees the Regency period through American eyes’ Lanre Bakare Christmas 1995 was one to forget. I was ill and mostly confined to the sofa, trying to keep down mince pies as my big sister made her […]
07.00 GMT Biskit 2010As graffiti spread overseas from Philadelphia and New York in the 1970s and 80s, each country gave the subculture its own national twist. Here, local artist Biskit relays the concerns of residents of two Beijing districts that were merged with others. Many felt the two lost district names held cultural significance and deserved […]
13.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 5 Jan 2021 15.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space Universe (2000-2018); Poseidon’s Children Universe (2012-2015) Facebook Twitter Pinterest My stories tend to start with the characters. Then I look through their eyes (or however they “see”), minds, perspectives to observe the world. […]
06.05 GMT First published on Wed 6 Jan 2021 05.45 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dr Dre said he will be ‘back home soon’ after he was hospitalised in Los Angeles Photograph: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Billionaire rapper and producer Dr Dre says he will be “back home soon” after receiving medical treatment at […]
09.56 GMT Last modified on Mon 4 Jan 2021 09.58 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Geoff Stephens, pictured circa 1970. Photograph: Ronald Spencer/Daily Mail/Rex/Shutterstock Geoff Stephens, the prolific Grammy-winning British songwriter behind hits such as Winchester Cathedral and The Crying Game, has died aged 86. In a message confirming the news to […]
07.00 GMT Café Moskau, Berlin, 1978A new exhibition Zusammenleben (which means ‘living together’) celebrates the work of influential German photographer Ute Mahler. It runs from 5 January until 20 March at La Maison De L’Image Documentaire in Sète, France. All photographs: Ute Mahler/Ostkreuz – Agentur der Fotografen GmbH Facebook Twitter Pinterest Potsdam, 1980, from the series […]