โจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Culture,Hugh Bonneville,CS Lewis ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: TThe drama of love and loss in Shadowlands has played an influential role in film and television. William Nicholson's view of C.S. Lewis's marriage to an American divorcee is one of the famous writer's belated passion, terminal illness, and crisis of Christian faith. In all its iterations, it's good old-fashioned crying. In this production, originally staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, it feels very old-fashioned.It has charm and pulls you into its melancholy but it looks as creaky as the…
๐ฅ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,The Shining,Guillermo del Toro,Paul Thomas Anderson,Jack Nicholson,Stanley Kubrick,Oscars,Culture,Awards and prizes โ
**What Youโll Learn**: Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro's "jazz hands" pose in the Oscar nominee's lunch photo was part of fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson's attempt to recreate the famous group shot, featuring Jack Nicholson, that appears at the end of The Shining.Del Toro responded to a post - in which he and Anderson were included in the photo from Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film - by saying: โ[Y]You got it! The PTA and I…
๐ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Berlin film festival,Arundhati Roy,Wim Wenders,Books,Culture,Film,Gaza,Palestine,World news,Europe,Israel-Gaza war,Festivals ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Writer Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlin Film Festival after the festival's chief expert said filmmakers should stay out of politics.The festival got off to a shaky start on Thursday after the competition's jury, led by German director Wim Wenders, answered questions about the conflict in Gaza. Asked whether films could influence political change, Wenders said that "films can change the world" but "not in a political way."He added that filmmakers "have to stay away…
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**What Youโll Learn**: toLove is expressed with a thumb licking down the forehead in Jack Nichols's dazzling, unpredictable debut play. Wild, gentle, and downright bizarre, The Shitheads take us back tens of thousands of years, to a time when survival required good aim with your hand axe, and being sensitive was no good.First humans Claire (Jacoba Williams, slippery and wild) and Greg (Johnny Kahn, puppyishly excited) meet up to hunt for the elk (a beautiful, tattered creature designed by Finn Caldwell and piloted…
โจ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television,Derry Girls,Culture,Belfast,Television & radio,Line of Duty,Blue Lights,Game of Thrones ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: 'I Love them! Minutes after I boarded a taxi at Belfast International Airport, the driver was beaming with Derry Girls. Many of the tourists he takes want to talk about the hit comedy, and as a fan himself, he's happy to oblige.We're stuck in traffic, which is strange for this small town on a rainy Tuesday morning. โThat's because all the media is here,โ he jokes. But there is some truth to that.…
โจ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Scottish Opera,Glasgow โ
**What Youโll Learn**: 'I โMay I become art myself,โ sings artist Katsushika Hokusai in the new opera by composer Dai Fujikura and librettist Harry Ross. And here he is doing just that: played by baritone Daisuke Ohyama, with the powers of Scottish opera wrapped around him.Over five chapters, The Great Wave presents us with episodes from Hokusai's life and death, beginning with his funeral and then continuing in flashback, including a dream sequence in which he encounters the wave that inspired his most…
๐ฅ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Wuthering Heights,Film,Culture,Emily Brontรซ,Books,Margot Robbie,Jacob Elordi,Emerald Fennell ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights begins with an aroused nun observing a hanged man standing erect. Other additions to Emily Brontรซ's 1847 novel include sadism, masturbation in swamps, beds filled with eggs for sexual effect, and endless sex in the rain.At the same time, characters were deleted or combined, major plot details were changed and the entire second half of the book was excluded. As well as ensuring a bumpy ride for English literature students tempted to watch…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Teenage author Jack Thorne has adapted William Golding's classic novel for his latest TV series about young, murderous males - but it's a very different beast.Jack Thorne has long been a popular and prolific playwright and screenwriter, with credits including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child who achieved great success on stage. However, last year's Netflix phenomenon "Teenage," which he co-created with actor Stephen Graham, sent him into a different layer of the atmosphere, given how its story about a 13-year-old killer cleaned up the…
๐ฅ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Griff Rhys Jones ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: DDeath comes to all of us, but just before it, there also comes that period when no one is sure whether you still exist or not. โI'm not dead,โ says Jim Hacker, played by Griff Rhys Jones, in the Yes Prime reboot. "I'm in the House of Lords!" The former Prime Minister is now also a professor at an Oxford university, but faces being fired from that job by students angry at his insults against the ultra-Orthodox faith. And…
โจ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions โ
**What Youโll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekSurah and the seaIf you thought 19th-century French sea paintings were all blissful Impressionism, you'll be confused, then immerse yourself in Seurat's eerie modernist shores. Read the review. Courtauld Gallery, London, until 17 Mayalso appearDelin Le Bas: Unfair GroundThe mural created for Glastonbury lies at the heart of this artist's folkloric vision of Britain today. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, until 31 MayYinka ShonibareWith sarcasm and wit, Shonibare spans global history and puts the empire in its place.…
