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Seed Review – A stunning film that traces the plight of black farmers in the American South | film

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Farming,US news,Race,Culture,Environment,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: forDirector Ritany Shine's stunning documentary follows black farmers in the American South over the course of seven years, capturing the beauty and hardships of working the land. Black-and-white cinematography adds visual grandeur to the harvest ritual: we see giant machines extracting cotton buds from open bolls, leaving behind a swirl of white fluff fluttering in the air. The country's painful legacy of slavery means that the design of agricultural labor is rich with poetic and political meaning. Owning land…

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Mother of the Flies Review – A horror set in the woods where the houseguests are microdosed on the drug | film

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,Family,Culture,Life and style 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you're a certain type of parent who loves folk horror movies, crafts with kids, and unusual family road trips, then perhaps photos from the work of the very adorable Adams-Poser family, a clan that includes upstate New York parents (Toby Poser and John Adams) and their seven-legged cat children (Zelda and Lulu Adams), will be on your mood board. This filmmaking family multitasks beyond boundaries, not just servesCo-directors, co-writers, producers and stars, but they also operate the…

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Make films shorter if you want them to be shown in cinemas, says Picturehouse director | film

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,UK news,The Brutalist,Killers of the Flower Moon,World news,Baftas,Awards and prizes,Film industry,Business 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Directors have to make shorter films if they want their work to be shown in cinemas, the head of one of the UK's leading film and distribution companies has said.Picturehouse Cinemas creative director Claire Baines made the comments after receiving this year's Bafta award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, amid concerns about film running times being steadily lengthened.Recent blockbusters have topped the three-hour mark, including Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower…

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Review of Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox – A space-hopping comedy that asks the big question | film

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Science fiction and fantasy films,Comedy films,Danny Trejo,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: FOr the sheer amount of gossip and gossip, this movie deserves some points. That, and the ultimately amusing appearance of Keith David as the Simulator, aka God, who explains to the astonished humans that God is a completely free creator, like a self-publishing novelist, and then becomes annoyed when the humans think self-publishing is lame: "It's not my fault if you don't understand the industry!"This is a fun, exhausting standalone story on the subject of time…

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Knight of the Seven Kingdoms review – This is the Game of Thrones we all need right now | television

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,George RR Martin,Game of Thrones,Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'forLess than their little cotton socks!” This is not a response one would expect from any resident of Westeros, the bloody, violent, incestuous and often debauched land of the Game of Thrones series. But the beloved heroes in the latest installment of the series, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, are calling him.Their names, as in George R.R. Martin's short novels on which the series is based, are Dunk - short for Ser Duncan the Tall -…

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BBCSO/Schuldt review – Phibbs’ cello concerto brings cohesion to uneven program | classical music

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Barbican,Music,BBC Symphony Orchestra,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: pRegardless of the performance, this somewhat hectic concert would have benefited from a clearer organizational outlook to tie its disparate works together. Fortunately, Joseph Phipps's Cello Concerto, written for Guy Johnston and here receiving its world premiere, brought its own musical cohesion, distinguishing itself in an uneven programme.Delicately crafted, its five contrasting movements had a warm tone and boasted polychromatic harmony with rich, smooth string writing and imaginative effects in wind, brass and percussion. Emerging from gentle double bass…

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‘I love that there’s this big gay thing in the middle of Scotland’: Ian McKellen and Graham Norton join Alan Cumming in Out in the Hills | Pitlochry Festival Theatre

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pitlochry Festival theatre,Scotland,Stage,Culture,Ian McKellen,Alan Cumming,LGBTQ+ rights,Theatre,UK news,Graham Norton,Comedy,Comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Sir Ian McKellen on stage blowing up a red balloon. For an 86-year-old man, he has amazing lung capacity. He lets it go and watches it take a satisfying, theatrical trajectory, rising to altitude, then plummeting. “Free the soul,” he says, in the role of Ed, an elderly gay man searching for freedom.There was a lot of spiritual liberation over the weekend at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. In a bold pre-season move by new artistic…

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‘The kids pointed it out when they asked for condoms’: Makers of iconic hip-hop film House Party look back | film

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Comedy films,Hip-hop,Culture,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Reginald Hudlin, writer/directorBlack music videos were not played on MTV in the late 1980s. So while I was still at Harvard, I was making music videos in my head. One day, while listening to Luther Vandross's "Bad Boy/Having a Party," I thought, "This could make a great music video or movie." And I sat down that night and wrote a script for a short film that ended up not only being produced, but showing at festivals and becoming a huge…

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Passage Into Darkness Review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes to the gates of hell | art

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Tracey Emin,Art and design,Edvard Munch,Antony Gormley,Anselm Kiefer,Gilbert & George,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TRasi Amin caught me looking at her from her selfie and trying to assess how similar they were. Not that close. This ink screen is larger than it is, and its face is wider and longer. But it is not a picture of the outside person, but rather an internal vision. As we stand before him, I seem to fall into radiant pools of blackness – crossing into darkness.Curator curated an exhibition of…

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Is this man the future of music or its executioner? AI evangelist Mickey Shulman says he makes pop music, not junk | music

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Culture,AI (artificial intelligence),Music industry,Computing,Technology 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'T“The shape of the future is the music you play,” says Mickey Schulman withAnd not just play.” As CEO and co-founder of AI-generated music company Suno, Shulman currently finds himself in the exhilarating, if perhaps unenviable, position of being seen as both the architect of music’s future — and its executor.Suno, founded just over two years ago, allows users to create entire songs using just a few text prompts. Right now, you can't ask for the name…

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