14.12 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 14.14 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Women’s March in Washington DC in 2017. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA It’s worth remembering, a week before the current administration faces electoral reckoning, that the single largest political demonstration in American history occurred on the first day […]
06.21 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 06.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jennifer Connelly and Jared Leto in Requiem for a Dream. Photograph: Allstar/Artisan Entertainment/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar I was 17, and just beginning university, when Requiem for a Dream descended on cinemas like an opaque, bruise-blue mist. Notwithstanding the no-under-18s […]
17.11 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 17.13 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Seth Meyers: ‘The president and his aides are waving the white flag and telling you to fend for yourselves.’ Photograph: YouTube Seth Meyers The US has plunged into a full third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, as […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 30 Oct 2020 12.47 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A sensorium of touch and taste … Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite. Photograph: TIFF Lesbians have a love-hate relationship with cinema, a place in which, Andrea Weiss wrote in her 1992 work Vampires and Violets, […]
14.47 GMT Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 18.52 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A civil rights protest shown in The Soul of America. Photograph: HBO How did a Pulitzer prize-winning historian, who might typically be giving lectures, signing books or roaming dusty archives, find himself making a speech at the […]
07.00 GMT Tattoo artist Asakusa Horikazu poses for a photograph with clients at a public bath in Tokyo. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shodai Horiren tattoos a customer at her studio in Warabi, Saitama prefecture. ‘Your house gets old, your parents die, you break up with a lover, kids grow and go,’ says Horiren, ‘But a tattoo is […]
14.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 14.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I want to defecate in front of Mike Pence next’ … Eric Andre. Photograph: Matthew Eisman/Getty Images The last show you loved Nathan for You, Nathan Fielder’s Comedy Central show. It was so brilliant, unique and high […]
12.39 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 17.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Driving them crazy … Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Photograph: Amazon Studios A group of Kazakh-Americans has demanded that Amazon withdraw Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Sacha Baron Cohen’s new satirical comedy which – like its 2006 predecessor Borat – identifies […]
12.09 GMT Last modified on Thu 29 Oct 2020 09.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jerry Jeff Walker performing in Austin, Texas, 2015. Photograph: Suzanne Cordeiro/REX/Shutterstock Mr Bojangles become a standard as soon as it was first recorded in 1968. Nina Simone did a beautiful version. Bob Dylan did a dreadful version. […]
13.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Standup and be counted … Hannah Gadsby. Photograph: Ben King/Netflix In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle it, once and for all Firstly, what counts as high culture? […]
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11.30 GMT Last modified on Thu 29 Oct 2020 11.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Des Wes … Crawley Edge Boatshed is the most photographed spot in Perth, Australia. Photograph: @_jameswong There’s something about director Wes Anderson’s style that’s instantly recognisable. Immaculate composition, symmetrical lines, pastel colours, idiosyncratic and strangely alluring sets […]
07.00 GMT Ada Trillo (series winner): La Caravana del Diablo – Almost ThereChelita clings to her mother amid the chaos of migrants waiting to be admitted into Mexico. ‘Trump has effectively barred asylum seekers from entering the US by threatening to impose tariffs and cut foreign aid to Central American countries. For many asylum seekers, deportation […]
13.27 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 13.29 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Heavy reading … the Walk of Ideas in Bebelplatz square in Berlin, Germany in 2006. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters What have people been doing to pass all these extra hours at home? Burying ourselves in ultra-long novels such […]
06.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ingenue … Joni Mitchell at 24, in London. Photograph: From Original Negative/Alamy Stock Photo “I was lying in bed last night thinking about getting a cat,” says Joni Mitchell. It’s an early summer Sunday, and she’s sitting in her backyard patio, nicknamed Tuscany. Behind her […]
22.10 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Too good to be true? Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman in The Undoing. Photograph: Photographer: Niko Tavernise/HBO Come for Nicole Kidman, in the hope that this new HBO miniseries will fill the Big Little Lies-shaped hole in your weekly viewing schedule, but stay for Hugh […]
13.05 BST Last modified on Fri 23 Oct 2020 13.32 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Thank you, next president … Ariana Grande in the video for Positions. Photograph: YouTube Ariana Grande Vevo Given the timing of its release – it’s 11 days, in case you need reminding, until America goes to the […]
12.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 28 Oct 2020 12.39 GMT Andrew Maud as Theseus and Cas Harkins as Hippolytus in Phaedra’s Love at the Gate theatre, London, in May 1996 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Peter Hobday as Carl, Tom Mothersdale as Tinker and Michelle Terry as Grace in Cleansed at the Dorfman, National Theatre, in February 2016 […]
07.00 GMT McDonald’s, 10207 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, California 90241The oldest surviving McDonald’s datesback to 1953. Architect Stanley Clark Meston initially outlined the tall sheet-metal arches with flashing pink neon. The McDonald’s corporation purchased the building from franchisees in 1990, with plans to demolish it. Campaigners pressed for it to be saved and the National Trust for […]
12.09 GMT Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 12.56 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Livin the dream … Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike The biggest question in the universe, writes Matthew McConaughey in his new autobiography (of sorts) is “WHOWHATWHEREWHENHOW?? – and that’s the truth. WHY? is even bigger.” With Greenlights, […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 09.57 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Olivia Newton-John: ‘Grease was a story from the 50s where things were different. It was a fun love story.’ Photograph: Brett Goldsmith Olivia Newton-John likes to sing to herself. Over and over, she will repeat, “I’m healthy, […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 11.53 GMT Good Friday, Seán McDermott Street, Dublin 1983/84The Light of Day is a photobook retrospective of Tony O’Shea’s work, spanning four decades from 1979 to 2019. It will be published on 13 November by RRB Photobooks and the Gallery of Photography Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Good Friday, […]
15.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 25 Oct 2020 19.16 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Snapped up for an eight-figure sum … His House. Photograph: Aidan Monaghan/NETFLIX There has never been a whole lot of overlap between the social realism of Ken Loach and the twisted horror of A Nightmare on Elm […]
14.55 BST Last modified on Wed 21 Oct 2020 16.57 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Bette Davis in The Little Foxes. Photograph: Allstar/RKO She is imperious and stylish, with a laugh like an open threat and an aversion to mansplaining. She is Bette Davis’s Regina Hubbard Giddens: the sharpest, funniest person in […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 09.53 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Constructive period … Sarah Sze in Paris with her installation, Twice Twilight, from her show Night Into Day. Photograph: Ed Alcock/The Guardian One click and the image on my laptop judders. When it reasserts itself, I’m looking […]
09.20 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Photograph: Amazon Studios/AP Thirteen years ago Sacha Baron Cohen announced that he was retiring the character of Borat Sagdiyev, the Kazakh journalist in the ill-fitting grey suit and Saddam moustache. It was a logical step […]
16.12 BST Last modified on Sat 24 Oct 2020 16.13 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest A performance from 1939. Viola Smith, a pioneering drummer and original “hep girl” of the swing and big band era, died on Wednesday in Costa Mesa, California. She was 107. Tommy DeVito: Four Seasons […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email An independence day celebration in India in 2012. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters In his celebrated “Letter from Birmingham jail”, written in 1963 while in prison for having taken part in a banned march against segregation, Martin Luther King Jr describes receiving a letter from a “white […]
15.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Sweet, soaring vocals’: Girlhood’s Tessa Cavanna and Christian Pinchbeck. Singer-songwriter Tessa Cavanna and producer Christian Pinchbeck first crossed paths in 2017. He heard her singing, so the story goes, when she walked past his narrowboat in east London and was so impressed he invited her […]
12.30 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Should be better’: Kate Walsh and Liam Neeson in Honest Thief. Photograph: AP Liam Neeson is Tom Carter, AKA “the In and Out Bandit”, a bank robber who has swindled 12 banks in seven states, accruing $9m. Importantly, he’s “met a woman” and is ready […]