🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Star Wars,The Mandalorian,Taika Waititi,Culture,Television & radio,Science fiction and fantasy films,Television ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars was a real movie that people watched. It drew people to movie theaters in droves, largely because it wasn't entirely embarrassed by being an exciting space adventure about comical wizards and laser swords. Nowadays, it is something else entirely. A TV show about a lovable alien dad and his cute, telekinetic adopted alien son, or perhaps a divisive culture war…
🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Melania Trump,Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MThe audience was booked with Melania for lunch on Friday at a retail park on the outskirts of Bristol, inside a large cinema that appears to have been bulldozed and emptied in preparation. When Brett Ratner's controversial Amazon-backed documentary was screened at the White House last weekend, the guest list included Mike Tyson, Queen Rania of Jordan and the president himself. Today it's just me in the room and Melania on the screen. It makes the relationship more intimate and exclusive.This…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Catherine O'Hara,Schitt's Creek,Film,US news,US television,Culture,Television,Television & radio ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Catherine O'Hara, the actress known for Schitt's Creek, Home Alone and Best Show, has died at the age of 71.Her manager confirmed the news to Variety magazine. She died after a short illness.O'Hara began her comedy career in the 1970s and helped create the Canadian sketch show SCTV. She entered the world of film in the 1980s with her first big screen credit in the romantic comedy Nothing Personal with Donald Sutherland, and in 1985 she…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Shakespeare's Globe,Tim Crouch,The Tempest ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: T“The Tempest” seems like the quintessential Shakespearean drama for the empiricist. It is all about artifice, after all, and questions the construction of art as illusion through Prospero's cruel magic. So a pairing with experimental writer, actor and director Tim Crouch seems like a natural fit. Or rather unnatural because this haunting, high-concept production so comprehensively underscores its artifice.It so emphatically breaks the fourth wall that the drama becomes so full of messages about theatre, the act of watching…
✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Film,Melania Trump,Culture,US politics,Donald Trump 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: She has no friends except everyone who works on dresses like herMelania seems to live a completely airless life, gliding alone around the gilded corridors in silence, David Lynch-style, watched by heavy lips. All her employees dress out of respect for her, mostly black, but sometimes — as in the case of her interior designer — in a matching camel-colored three-piece suit. Candidates interviewing for supporting roles also got the memo, lining up in a sea of monochrome, with…
✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A doll-headed figure plays with a multi-colored fidget spinner, high above the stage. Three men - masked and armed - crawled forward, grabbed him, cut his throat and dragged him away.It's a brutal beginning to a brutal opera. This flashback is the brainchild of director Richard Jones (in his 2016 Royal Opera production, revived for a second time by Ben Mills, we see it replayed twice more as an episode that haunts the protagonist), but the overriding atmosphere is Mussorgsky's. Based…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The White Lotus,Television & radio,Culture,France,World news,Steve Coogan,Helena Bonham Carter,Europe 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWill it be a deadly pétanque attack under the palms of the umbrella? Some pool tricks in a €21,000-per-night private villa? Maybe a poisoned cocktail on the balcony overlooking luxury yachts in the Mediterranean?Bienvenue For the fourth season of The White Lotus on the Côte d'Azur; Judging by previous series, someone didn't make it out of the French Riviera alive.Saint-Tropez is preparing to roll out the red carpet for perhaps the most promiscuous group…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: forIn 2017, a little-known American, Robert Treviño, stepped in at short notice to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Third Symphony – the most important in the repertoire – for the first time. It was a very exciting start. The following year, Treviño staged a similar coup in Zurich, establishing a career that has since caught fire across Europe. It has taken nearly a decade, but Treviño — announced this week as the new principal conductor of the George…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Melania Trump,Culture,Amazon,Film industry 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThursday night in Washington saw the world premiere of Melania, Brett Ratner's $40 million film about the First Lady, easily the most expensive documentary ever made. At the recently renamed Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, guests, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, waved to reporters from the black carpet (which was an homage to the first lady's favorite color) before ascending the steps emblazoned with her name in…
💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Peter Hujar,Reality Winner,Drama films,Stage,Documentary films,Art and design,Culture,US news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AFred Hitchcock, the director of some of the best films of all time, supposedly said that only three basic ingredients were needed to make a great film: “Script, script, script.” For a filmmaker, it can seem like a godsend when a fully formed film lands in your lap. But behind the growing number of movies there's a simple trick: pull all your dialogue from real people. An increasing number of filmmakers are turning to scripts…
