π₯ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Culture,Drama films,Period and historical films,Second world war,Nazism,World news β
Key idea: AAnyone who has sat in the dark and watched the beautiful, glowing images of a silent film come to life on the screen has a lot to thank Kevin Brownlow for. Since the 1960s, he has been seeking to collect, preserve and restore these fragile artifacts of early cinema β thousands of which have been lost, discarded or melted down due to their silver content. He even received an honorary Academy Award in 2010 for his…
β¨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Liz Truss,YouTube,Politics,UK news,Television,Television & radio π Main takeaway: IIn the run-up to the launch of βThe Liz Truss Showβ β the provocative new YouTube series from Britainβs shortest-serving prime minister β one phrase was repeated over and over: βThey tried to silence her.β It turns out they didn't need to, because Truss was perfectly capable of doing it herself.She tweeted that the first episode will be available on Friday at 6 p.m. Except on Friday at 6pm, he was nowhere to be seen. By 6.05, with no…
β¨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Christmas shows,Panto season,Theatre,Stage,Culture π‘ Key idea: CIndrila is going to the ball - only she first has to help her horrible stepmother with a disgusting vegetarian dinner. Co-creators Chris Bush and Ronnie Neal gave Cinders a modern, festive twist, complete with a magical microwave and an unforgettable costume change inside the refrigerator. As might be expected from Bush, the script is clever and honest, but it's also very complex, falling somewhere between honest play and quick pantomime.The Rose is committed to giving young actors a real…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Nicola Coughlan,Culture,Bridgerton,Derry Girls,Television,Television & radio β
Key idea: Back in 2008, when Nicola Coughlan was at drama school, a guy in her class swaggered over and, with all the brimming confidence of young men in the noughties, asked her, βDo the Irish think the English are really cool?β Coughlan, born in Galway, mimes processing the question. βWell,β she said, βitβs quite complicated. Like, thereβs a lot of history there, between the two countries. Like, thereβs a lot going on.βThe Guardianβs journalism is independent. We will earn…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Best books of the year,Books,Fiction,Best books,Culture π Key idea: TThere aren't many giants of 20th-century literature still writing, but 2025 sees the first novel in 12 years by American great Thomas Pynchon, now in his late 80s: Shadow Ticket (Jonathan Cape) is a quintessential Prohibition-era mystery novel, set against rising Nazism and making sprawling connections with the specter of fascism today. Other elder statesmen publishing this year include Salman Rushdie with The Eleventh Hour (Cape), a hilarious quintet of short stories filled with mortality and his first…
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Hereβs what youβll learn: MYour first meeting with Broadway actor Jonathan Groff was harmless. I was stuck in the wilds of Donegal for two weeks as part of teacher training, listening to Broadway musicals while the rest of the lads watched Gaelic matches and got drunk. I found the latest production of Merrily We Roll Along With Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, like most Internet users, I became obsessed.After that, I went down the Grove rabbit hole to track down interviews and recordings. I…
β¨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Clubbing,Club culture,Dance music,Music,Manchester,North of England,UK news,Culture π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: Long lines stretched on the street outside, drops of condensation dripped onto the walls inside, and memories were made β and lost β and it all happened without a smartphone in sight. For those who remember Manchester nightclub Sunkeys in its heyday 30 years ago, the venue was a clubbing Mecca.βThe sweat was dripping off the walls,β said Lee Spence, the clubβs resident promoter and DJ from 2002 to 2012, who remembers once double-booking Chase &…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Nick Cave,Music π Hereβs what youβll learn: DWatching Nick Cave's new documentary on Sky, I'm reminded of how critics skewer towards meddlesome musicians who constantly change direction and dabble in everything. This is its own kind of myth. I know a lot of artists who keep moving β one week they're sewing fish scales onto jackets, the next they're painting mirrors or putting seahorses in a samovar. The problem is that no one cares. If poet and potter Nick Cave didn't write classic songs…
π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Frank Gehry,Architecture,Art and design,Culture,US news,UK news,Spain,Museums,Europe,World news,Los Angeles,Paris π Main takeaway: FMark Gehry once had a cameo role on The Simpsons where he designed buildings by crushing pieces of paper. There was little more than that, but from Prague to Panama City, its wrinkled features were instantly recognizable, expressed in a great procession of buildings that shook and toppled as if struck by a wrecking ball, or crashed and whirled like a dervish, defying the laws of gravity and structural logic. Although Jerry, who has died aged…
β¨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Tom Stoppard,Brian Cox,Royal Court theatre,Trevor Nunn,Mick Jagger,VΓ‘clav Havel,Political theatre π Main takeaway: forBy the time I got into Rock'n'Roll in 2006, I had been following Tom for years. I saw the death of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when it came to London in 1967 with the great Graham Crowden as the player-king. It was a sensation. The Real Thing was a great play and Arcadia was exceptional.Set at the Royal Court in London, Rock and Roll was directed by Trevor Nunn and starred Rufus Sewell as Jan,…
