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H for Hawk Review – Claire Foy is all too real in this bizarre drama of grief | London Film Festival 2025

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: London film festival 2025,London film festival,Film,Culture,Claire Foy,Brendan Gleeson,Helen Macdonald,Film adaptations 💡 Key idea: CGoshawk training is a cure for sadness? Or treat it in some way? Will keeping him indoors - with a hood on so he stays cool - and then taking him out hunting, allow you to radically reconnect with nature in a way that annoying townspeople will never understand? Or is this just a domesticated festival of cruelty to birds and prey and symptoms of serious depression?Philippa Lowthorpe's interesting and endearingly performed if…

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The Fiery Furnaces reissue a cult classic: ‘We knew we wouldn’t seem like an also-ran NYC band in leather jackets’ | Music

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The Fiery Furnaces had no expectations for their second album, 2004’s Blueberry Boat. The sibling duo recorded it before their debut had even come out, and so had no idea that 2003’s Gallowsbird’s Bark would receive such wild acclaim: in an 8.4 review, Pitchfork called its shambolic rock’n’roll and frontwoman Eleanor Friedberger’s arcane lyricism a “a mess of weird, undulating musical bits that are hugely intriguing despite not always making a whole shitload of sense”. They were busy fulfilling a five-album deal with Rough Trade, a luxury that was pretty much par for the course as a buzzy Brooklyn band…

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‘The vocals were on another level’: how Counting Crows made Mr Jones | Culture

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Adam Duritz, songwriter, vocalsOur first four records had been mostly made in houses in the hills above Los Angeles. August and Everything After was our first major label album, so it was a pretty big deal. Our advance was $3,000 each; I bought a 1971 cherry red VW Karmann Ghia convertible and drove it to LA.I would get up every morning and listen to Pickin’ Up the Pieces by Poco, which is like the Beatles doing country music. I also had this Benny Goodman album that I was listening to a lot – my dad had picked it up as…

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Were their body parts used in satanic rituals? Netflix tackles the horrific ‘Monster of Florence’ murders | Television & radio

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Some criminal cases are so vast that even the number of victims is uncertain: in the case of the unsolved “Monster of Florence” crimes that have gripped Italy for half a century, it is known that seven couples were murdered. But some say it’s eight, and at least another 16 murders have been connected to the case. The number of suspects almost matches that of the victims. First there was the pista sarda, the Sardinian line of enquiry into the swinging, pimping Vinci brothers who probably had a hand in the “first” murder in 1968. In the 1990s, a rapist,…

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Máret Ánne Sara’s Turbine Hall review – did no one think to ask her for a little bit more? | Art and design

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The Tate Turbine Hall, in case you didn’t know, is quite big. It gives an artist a unique opportunity to work on an epic scale and animate this colossal post-industrial space all the way from piazza floor to girdered roof. Artists have put the sun in here, built slides, opened a crack from one end of the floor to another. Yet Máret Ánne Sara seems either scared, repelled or just uninspired by it. She has built a little fort of sticks to hide away from the vastness. That’s the best I can say about her installation – that a small…

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This series about the great US film-maker is a must-watch

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Scorsese's father kept his nose clean, but often had to intervene to save his brother, the film-maker's uncle, Joe "The Bug" Scorsese, the other inspiration for Johnny Boy. I thought I knew Scorsese's story well, but I had never heard about Joe the Bug. Along the way, Scorsese adds surprising details about how his boyhood still affects his art. His asthma kept him indoors, looking out from an upper floor window onto the street. "That's why I like high-angle shots," he says.The documentary offers a reminder that his career has had more ups and downs than most people might think,…

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Taylor Swift announces behind-the-scenes Eras tour docuseries, plus new concert film | Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift has announced a docuseries that will follow the creation of her history-making Eras tour.Disney+ will air the six-episode series The End of an Era from 12 December onwards, with the first two episodes launching on that date. Two episodes will air each week in the following two weeks. There will also be a separate film of the final concert of the Eras tour at Vancouver’s BC Place, entitled The Eras Tour | The Final Show, airing from 12 December.“It was the End of an Era and we knew it,” Swift wrote on Instagram, announcing the projects. “We wanted…

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‘The most spontaneous person I’ve ever met’: Guardian writers remember Diane Keaton | Diane Keaton

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‘I can’t imagine crying about the death of any other actor’Laura SnapesLovable … Keaton in Father of the Bride. Photograph: Touchstone/AllstarThe first person I texted about Diane Keaton’s death was my mum. Our love of her films is pretty much the only cultural taste I inherited from her. I was about 10 when she first let me watch a VHS off the grown-up shelf. She picked Baby Boom. I might wonder what the appeal of a film about a high-flying 80s businesswoman inheriting a baby was to a kid – were it not so plainly funny, spanning Keaton’s talents from…

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Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott calls before joining Harry Potter audiobooks | Film

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Keira Knightley said that she was “not aware” of demands to boycott JK Rowling prior to joining the cast of the new audiobook versions of the Harry Potter series.Knightley was speaking to Decider to promote her new Netflix movie The Woman in Cabin 10 (in which she plays a Guardian reporter), and was asked if she knew that “some fans are calling for a Harry Potter boycott”.Knightley said: “I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry. You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure…

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Mitsuko Uchida review – enthralling and exhilarating late Beethoven | Classical music

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Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas are a gift for a pianist as adept at balancing the playful and the profound as Mitsuko Uchida. Each is potentially a work of astonishing individual impact, yet they can come together to form something even greater than the sum of their parts.Perhaps it’s in the way that each sonata seems to pick up on and amplify the conflicts, beauties and struggles of the one before. Op 109 came to its close above a low rumble that Uchida made sound like an earthquake – Beethoven must have thought of sound as something to be felt…

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