✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Science fiction and fantasy films,Drama films,Brazil,Older people,Culture,Americas,Society,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: gApril Mascaro's intriguing, wayward film is a kind of road movie, or perhaps river movie—the Amazon, in fact, set in Brazil's remote northwest. It's a film that walks by the nose, wanders across land and water, and is beautifully shot with gorgeous visual compositions. There are sometimes uncanny similarities between Fitzcarraldo or The African Queen, but the cinematic allusions are not the point. This is a drama that seeks to transform and liberate its aging…
🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Butterflies,Family,Azerbaijan,Armenia,Conservation,Culture,Environment,Europe,Insects,Life and style,World news,Wildlife,Animals 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: pHot journalist Rena Effendi's father was famous in the world of butterflies; He was a specialist in Lepidoptera, and spent seven years hunting one species. Effendi dryly points out that seven years was longer than Rustam Effendi had spent in any of his four marriages—perhaps longer. (When asked about a specific number of wives, his old friend replied: “God knows best!”) Effendi was 14 years old when her father died; He was mostly absent during her childhood, and…
🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Jack Whitehall,Michael Jackson ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “The burps.”9pm, Sky OneKeke Palmer is much better at delivering this take on the popular 80s horror comedy, with its successful gags. She and Jack Whitehall play hopeful new parents Samira and Rob, who move into Ashfield Place, a typical suburban dead-end street – except it has a group of strange residents and a creepy abandoned house. This week, things get even nastier at the block party. Holly RichardsonHelps! I bought it at auction with Sarah Penny8pm on…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Film,Comedy,Comedy,Games,Books,Radio,Stewart Lee,Black Country, New Road,Social media,Digital media,Twitch 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThere was recently a meme featuring Tony Soprano looking distinctly menacing, with a caption that read: “Imagine telling him he needs to create short-form content to engage the algorithm.” But the feeling is inescapable: 82% of all internet traffic now consists of videos, and the number of short videos posted on the likes of TikTok and Instagram has risen by 71% per year from 2024.You may have noticed that there are a particularly high number of…
🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Ruby Wax,Comedy,Culture,Stage,Television & radio 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhat are these shows in which veteran artists regale us with clips from their glorious careers, if not attempts to get another round of applause - without having to produce any new material? The virtue of Ruby Wax's contribution to the genre is that it is pointedly frank about it. In a show that's all about the thirst for fame and the celebrity experience, it seems so important. Co-hosted with her long-time TV producer, Cliff Tulloh, Undoubtedly finds Wax…
✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Literary criticism,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: "I“I have lived a life, as I have lived a life as a life writer,” Blake Morrison opens his book Tour the horizon It is arguably the most expansive and expansive literary genre with a flash of its credentials and an implicit call for further investigation. What constitutes life, and what does it mean to write about it? Can you write about yourself from within it?Before publishing his critically acclaimed best-selling book about his father's life and death, When Did You…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Film criticism,Silent film,Charlie Chaplin,Culture,Luis Buñuel ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: touis Buñuel wrote that dreams were the first cinema. His short film Un Chien Andalou, co-written with Salvador Dali and inspired by their dreams, is nearly 100 years old, but its images still have the power to shock and disturb: a razor blade slicing an eyeball; Two rotting asses tied to a grand piano.Un Chien Andalou is one of dozens in this documentary about the influence of dreams in early cinema. The film is directed by Gerald…
💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Television,Television & radio,Film,30 Rock,Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,Broadway,Tina Fey,US television 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'I"I've been on three TV shows that made a little difference," says Jane Krakowski. "It sounds obnoxious for me to say that, so I hope you phrase it as if you said it." Actually, I said it too: the first was Ally McBeal, from 1997 to 2002, in which she played Eileen Vassall, a titular character in a groundbreaking show. The kind of people who liked to sit around and argue about television and postmodernism…
✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: V&A,Art and design,Art,Museums,Culture,Textile art ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOutside the new site of the Victoria and Albert Museum in east London, an ordinary young man gazes out at the old Olympic Park. The five-metre-tall sculpture is generic in design, a combination of "photos, 3D scans and observations" of local residents. It's easy to see why Thomas J. Price's idea would appeal to a museum keen to engage with the region's diverse communities – here is the essence of East London's youth, executed at the level of Michelangelo's…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Peter Hujar,Aids and HIV,Art and design,Culture,Art,Photography,LGBTQ+ rights,Books,Biography books,World news,New York,US news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAndrew Durbin, author and editor-in-chief of Frieze magazine, spent nearly five years writing "The Wonderful World That Was About to Be." This dual biography of photographer Peter Hujar and sculptor Paul Thicke, two gay artists who made extraordinary work in the years before and during AIDS, focuses on their friendship, creativity, and collaboration spanning more than 30 years. They died within a year of each other, in 1987 and 1988, both from…
