π₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Peter Hujar,Reality Winner,Drama films,Stage,Documentary films,Art and design,Culture,US news β
**What Youβll 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: βScript, script, script.β 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…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Universal Pictures9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in ConcertWhen Baz Luhrmann was researching his Elvis biopic, he discovered dozens of boxes containing unseen documentary footage. Much of it has to do with Presley's stays in Las Vegas after his own 1968 comeback: There were interviews, rehearsals and hours of outtakes from his two 1970s concert films. Now Luhrmann has restored and edited this footage to produce a brand new concert film β and it may lead us to re-evaluate Presley's later career. Seeing EPiC will be the…
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**What Youβll Learn**: London's Tate Modern opens the largest-ever exhibition celebrating Tracey Emin's life's work on Friday, February 27.Spanning her exceptional practice spanning 40 years, A Second Life brings together career-defining works alongside works that have never been shown before. Through drawing, video textiles, neon, graffiti, sculpture and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to explore emotion, pain and healing.The Guardian has teamed up with Tate to offer our readers an exclusive 2-for-1…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: FFormed in Berlin in 2019, the Leoncuro Quartet are no strangers to the UK having won first prize and nine special prizes at the 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. In their new disc they explore three composers who embody the most cutting-edge music that might have been encountered in the Austrian capital on both sides of the Great War.The artwork for Outside Vienna. Image: AlphaAlban Berg and Anton Webern took Schoenberg's theories of free atonality and the 12-tone…
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**What Youβll Learn**: 'TβThe film has to be eaten alive and remetabolized and come out different, from everyone's perspective,β Kristen Stewart bravely says. The actor's directorial debut, Water Chronology, has been making the rounds at film festivals, and when we meet in London, the reviews are coming. Stewart knows this is the film's impressionistic collageβdrawn from an experimental memoir about women's pain and loss, and the elusive nature of memory. βAnd regain desire β it won't be for everyone.β My favorite review on…
π Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Graham Norton,Halle Berry,Chris Hemsworth,Rachel McAdams π **What Youβll Learn**: Under the salt marsh9pm, Sky AtlanticA thrilling crime drama that makes the most of its rugged South Wales coastal backdrop, complete with sheep running through the pub and cozy sweaters. Yellowstone's Kelly Reilly leads the (not entirely Welsh) cast as Jackie, a pensive detective turned guru with perpetual hair in bed. When she finds her student's body in a ditch, her former colleague Detective Eric Paul (Rafe Spall) arrives on the scene, still upset by…
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**What Youβll Learn**: On TV, you never die. When a beloved character on your favorite show is killed off, you can be forgiven for having some skepticism. Who says they won't be miraculously revived in the future?BBC hit The Night Manager brought back arms trade foe Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) midway through the series to confront his old nemesis, MI6 agent Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston). This action duly increased the gears, tempting Sunday's finale approach. Will Roper be eliminated for…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Author Ian McEwan said the legalization of euthanasia should be extended "gradually" to include dementia patients.McEwan has been "shocked by the attempts to dig into the ice" by those who oppose the UK's assisted dying bill, he told a public writers' event in London, citing more than 1,000 amendments. MPs and peers supporting the bill now believe it is βalmost impossibleβ to pass the House of Lords before the end of the session in May due to…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Bruce Springsteen has released a new song dedicated to Minnesota's largest city in response to "state terrorism visiting Minneapolis" and the recent killings of Renee Judd and Alex Peretti at the hands of federal immigration agents in the city.In a message shared on social media, Springsteen explained: "I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terrorism visiting the city…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Sundance 2026,Courtney Love,Kurt Cobain,Film,Music,Documentary films,Sundance film festival,Culture,Pop and rock,Nirvana π **What Youβll Learn**: A new documentary about GenerationThe musician and actress, 61, was supposed to attend the premiere of Antiheroine, a new retrospective documentary by Edward Lovelace and James Hall that traces her life and career, but was unable to attend for undisclosed reasons. βWe are so sad that Courtney couldn't be here tonight to celebrate this moment with all of us,β Lovelace said in her introduction to the film's premiere in Park City, Utah, describing…
