05.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Naples is already part of me, as I am of Naples.’ Composite: Getty/Photo By Eduardo Castaldo ©Wildside/Umedia 2018 Neapolitan dialect plays an important role in your novels. Could one say that you are doing a work of translation, hearing the voices of these characters in […]
11.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Collaboration … Ingmar Bergman with his daughter Linn Ullmann during the filming of Autumn Sonata (1978). Photograph: Arne Carlsson © AB Svensk Filmindustri When Linn Ullmann’s father was well into his 80s, he began to refer to the life that he was now experiencing as […]
06.00 BST Last modified on Sun 30 Aug 2020 06.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Melania Trump speaks from the Rose Garden of the White House. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Stephanie Winston Wolkoff knew Melania Trump for more than 15 years but as an aide to the first lady she lasted less than […]
08.20 BST Last modified on Mon 17 Aug 2020 08.21 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken in New Rose Hotel. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy Critics balked at the maverick film-maker Abel Ferrara’s woozy erotic drama when it premiered in competition at the Venice film festival in 1998. A scrupulous adaptation […]
12.00 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 12.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Too much focus on Mario detracts from the documentary’s scope. Photograph: Netflix/Courtesy of Netflix Netflix’s latest nostalgia-driven docuseries tackles the history of video games, with a focus on the 1970s, 80s and early 90s that made this […]
07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A photograph, taken in July 2018, from Love’s Fire Song by Enda Bowe. Each summer, along the “peace walls” that still divide Belfast, young men build enormous bonfires of wooden pallets. On 11 July, unionist fires burn to commemorate Protestant victory at the Battle of […]
22.03 BST Last modified on Fri 28 Aug 2020 00.40 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A man looks at Claude Monet’s Water Lilies as the Museum of Modern Art reopens to the public on 27 August. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Those markings on the floor. Is it art … or is […]
07.24 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 16.52 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Favourite Christopher Nolan films, clockwise from top: The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk, Memento, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar. Composite: Rex/Shutterstock, Allstar/Cinetext Following Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeremy Theobald in Following. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy Stock Photo Shot in parts over the […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘What Nora finds is a library in which each volume represents a version of her life.’ Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images Nora Seed feels useless. Her cat is dead, her brother doesn’t seem to be interested in her, and she has been fired: nobody needs […]
17.00 BST Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not by Arctic Monkeys. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ronan by Ronan Keating. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trouble by Ray Lamontagne. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Greatest Hits by Goldie Lookin Chain. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Destiny Fulfilled by Destiny’s Child. Facebook Twitter Pinterest […]
15.00 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 20.13 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 25. Bug Khan and Plastic Jam – Made in Two Minutes (1991) If hardcore rave was rooted in house and techno, the prosaically titled Made in Two Minutes makes explicit another major influence, hip-hop. This is a […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Fri 28 Aug 2020 14.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Still hungry to blaze a trail … Toni Braxton. Photograph: JC Olivera/Getty Images Toni Braxton’s career has been hampered at times by multiple bankruptcies, coping with lupus, and reality TV show drama on Braxton Family Values. There […]
12.06 BST Last modified on Fri 28 Aug 2020 08.20 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Drinking and cussing is something I’ve always done’ … Bettye LaVette. Photograph: – Bettye LaVette is talking about James Brown and liberally fire-hosing one of her favourite words down the fuzzy line from New Jersey. “That muthafucka,” […]
09.02 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 09.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mark David Chapman in 2018. Photograph: AP Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon outside his New York apartment in 1980, has been denied parole for the 11th time. A parole board at Wende correctional facility near […]
16.31 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 17.08 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Auliʻi Cravalho and Rhenzy Feliz in All Together Now. Photograph: Allyson Riggs/Netflix Brett Haley’s charming 2018 music drama Hearts Beat Loud should have been the toast of Sundance after its festival premiere. It was a sweet, progressive […]
12.00 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 18.35 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dance like no-one’s watching … Disclosure. Photograph: Marta Camarada/the Guardian Occasionally, songs take on qualities that their authors never intended them to have. The passage of time casts different light on them; political groups and protest movements […]
07.00 BST Kristina by Kristina Varaksina‘By the end of the second month of lockdown, I decided to shave my hair off. This self-portrait is part of an ongoing series that reflects on female-related issues: self-image, struggling to fit in, staying strong and persevering in a male-centred society.’ Portrait of Britain is run by the British Journal […]
17.27 BST Last modified on Wed 26 Aug 2020 17.41 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Power Trip playing Manchester Academy in April 2018. Photograph: John Gilleese/Rex/Shutterstock Fusing the technical prowess of thrash metal with the warp speed blast of hardcore – and a political stance that emphasised compassion and tolerance – Power […]
10.00 BST Last modified on Wed 26 Aug 2020 10.48 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Statue of JS Bach in the courtyard of St Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, where he was organist and musical director. Photograph: UniversalImagesGroup/UIG via Getty Images ‘The immortal god of harmony”: that’s what Beethoven, no less, called […]
09.14 BST Aveonte (pictured with his cousins)‘My American dream is a safe place for everyone. The poor, needy, sick, the helpless, everyone. No more danger in the streets or fear to walk down your own block at night. A sanctuary of sorts, where everyone can at least go to work and provide for their families and […]
14.00 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 15.29 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Compelling … athlete Matt Stutzman in Rising Phoenix. Photograph: Netflix Presumably, the makers of this documentary about Paralympic athletes were expecting its release to coincide with the Tokyo games this year, only for them to be postponed […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 21.09 BST Ntsimba Marie Jeanne, housewife and sapeuse for 20 years, in BrazzavilleThe British photographer Tariq Zaidi shot sapeurs, sapeuses and younger mini sapes at home in their low-income communities. Here, Ntsimba Marie Jeanne wears suit by Jean Courcel, shirt by Pierre Cardin, scarf by Chanel, glasses by […]
16.17 BST First published on Tue 25 Aug 2020 15.57 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The kid stays in the picture … Ralph Macchio resurrects Daniel LaRusso in Cobra Kai. Photograph: Guy D’Alema/YouTube/Sony Pictures Television In the past 36 years, there has been, Ralph Macchio says, just one day, maybe, when someone […]
14.52 BST Last modified on Wed 26 Aug 2020 13.54 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite. Photograph: Courtesy of Neon Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are falling in love in the first trailer for Ammonite, a controversial romantic drama that’s being tipped for Oscars. The untold […]
07.35 BST Last modified on Tue 25 Aug 2020 15.58 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ron English wearing one of the masks he designed. Photograph: Ron English If you see people walking around wearing creepy skeleton face masks, you can blame Ron English. The New York artist recently released a new line […]
08.00 BST Last modified on Wed 26 Aug 2020 09.49 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email If this were an album it would be a hit. Unfortunately, it’s a video game … No Straight Roads. Photograph: Metronomik Musical adventure No Straight Roads certainly got my foot tapping, albeit more due to frustration than […]
10.00 BST Last modified on Wed 26 Aug 2020 17.09 BST Edward Watson and Darcey Bussell in Balanchine’s Stravinsky Violin Concerto at the Royal Opera House, London, in 2006 Facebook Twitter Pinterest With Tamara Rojo in Emeralds from Balanchine’s Jewels at the Royal Opera House in 2009 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Different Drummer, one of Watson’s first leading […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 26 Aug 2020 15.29 BST Lillian (L) and Rena: Australian cattle dog, black labrador retriever, rescues (Architect: Jack Meiselman, 1957)Their owners say: ‘Lillian and Rena are a big part of our lives. Besides riding in our vintage 1963 convertible Corvair, or just lying in the sun, they bring happiness to everyone.’ […]
19.13 BST Last modified on Tue 25 Aug 2020 21.56 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Russell T Davies in Manchester, 2016. He said recently: ‘As a gay man, I’m sitting there going, “Where is my content?”’ Photograph: Colin McPherson/The Guardian The creator of Queer as Folk has raised concerns that Disney’s streaming […]
09.48 BST Last modified on Mon 24 Aug 2020 10.31 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Louis Theroux: ‘The ravages of the ageing process have left their mark.’ Photograph: BBC It is a strange feeling looking back at a much earlier version of yourself on television, a queasy mixture of recognition and distance, […]