π Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Journalism books,Joe Sacco,History books,Comics and graphic novels,Books,Culture,India π Hereβs what youβll learn: Coe Sacco is one of the very few graphic novelists who has broken into the mainstream. His breakthrough work is Palestine, a collected volume of single-issue picture books he created in the 1990s, documenting the violence in Gaza. His style is to work like a journalist in a war zone and interview people on the street, telling their stories with pictures. Lessons about global politics emerge from extreme local conflicts and depictions of everyday…
π₯ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Thrillers,Action and adventure films,Finland,Culture,Europe,World news β
Main takeaway: IIn 2022, Finnish indie action film Sisu looks like a one-hit wonder. By pitting a grizzled prospector against an entire platoon of Nazis, writer-director Jalmari Helander has heeded the lessons of George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, that there's serious cinematic value in going metal along one straight narrative line. This profitable sleeper hit now leads to the follow-up Selection, which somehow feels more expansive while still clocking in at under 90 minutes.After eliminating the SS, indomitable hero Atami…
π Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Romance films,Netflix,Film,Comedy films,Culture,Christmas,Comedy β
Main takeaway: AAt the risk of sounding like a Grinch, I must once again bemoan the release of Christmas movies before Thanksgiving; Temperatures may be dropping at long last, but they're still too close to daylight saving time gloom and too far away from loosening your belt on actual holidays to fully indulge in Netflix's now-annual buffet of cheap Christmas sweets. However, their content conveyor belt is working, offering substantial, permanent rewards like cotton candy starting in mid-November.Like American Chocolate which, in fact,…
π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Musicals,Climate crisis,Environment π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: THis musical about climate disaster is set in a tower overlooking the River Thames. The setting is central because the dystopia resulted from a biomedical waste dump in the river. London is flooded and this apartment on the 16th floor is the safest place to live.Or so it seems, because things are very ambiguous in this experimental production. Created by director Adam Linson, Stu Barter, Rachel Pellman, Annabelle Lee Revack, Darren Clarke, and Shay Bolton Richards, it brings an electric…
π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Drama films,Marion Cotillard,Culture,Festivals,Berlin film festival β
Key idea: AA frightening and unhealthy spell is cast in this film; It is a fantasy story of death longing and erotic submission. He brilliantly fuses reality and fantasy into a state of ecstasy β a state I've sometimes found a bit static in Lucille HadzihaliloviΔ's previous films, but not here. Dreamily bizarre (and indeed, on the face of it, utterly preposterous), this film had me hooked with its two stellar performances - by Marion Cotillard and newcomer Clara Pacini -…
π₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Design,Wes Anderson,Culture,Art and design,Film π Hereβs what youβll learn: TTerrible things happen in Wes Anderson movies. In his latest work, The Phoenician Blueprint, a man is accidentally split in half in a plane crash. In The Royal Tenenbaums, the patriarchal protagonist feigns a terminal illness in order to return to his estranged and dysfunctional family. At the Grand Budapest Hotel, the "heroic" concierge Monsieur Gustav is essentially a murderer, and the fictional Republic of Zubrowka is in the tightening grip of the fascist regime.It's all played for…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Christmas shows,The Wizard Of Oz,Lake District,Christmas π Key idea: MMost people come to Keswick to enjoy the mountains and cream cakes. For 13-year-old Dorothy (Nimi Spiff), they are the reason she wants out. What need of scenery and pink snow when you're in the hustle and bustle of London?Grieving for her mother and imagining her absent father, she is determined to escape to the capital for Christmas. But a Lake District storm looms, and after crashing through the upstairs window of her aunt and uncle's house,…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: British Museum,Corporate sponsorship,Culture,Tobacco industry,Museums,Japan,Business,World news,UK news π‘ Main takeaway: The British Museum has ended a controversial sponsorship deal with a Japanese tobacco company after reports that the government had raised questions about the deal, which some critics described as βdeeply worryingβ.The Guardian has learned that the museum's board has chosen not to renew the 15-year partnership with Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which ended in September.The pressure group Culture Unstained filed a freedom of information request earlier this year, which it says revealed correspondence sent in January…
β¨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Daniel Radcliffe,Harry Potter,Film adaptations,HBO,Television,Books,Culture,Media,Science fiction and fantasy films,Television & radio,Television industry,US television industry π‘ Key idea: Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe said he has written to 11-year-old actor Dominic McLaughlin, who has been chosen to play the lead role in the new Harry Potter TV series.Radcliffe appeared on Good Morning America on Tuesday and said: "I'm not going to say that anyone who plays Harry should do it." [call me]He added: βI wrote to Dominic and sent him a letter and he sent me a very…
π Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Photography,Art and design,Culture,California,West Coast π Hereβs what youβll learn: IIn 2013, I had been living in New York for a long time. The social life was vibrant, but I never figured out how to take photos there. So when a friend sent me details about a teaching job in Eureka, California, I jumped at the chance. When I arrived, I found Northern California to be a stunning, beautiful place, and it inspired a new body of work almost immediately.Eureka was the first time I had stayed for…
