Friday, 1 November 2024

Film Review: Blitz (dir. Steve McQueen, 2024)

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  The two films made by Steve McQueen last year - the 4 hour WWII Amsterdam documentary Occupied City , and Grenfell - were hard-core art-h...
Thursday, 17 October 2024

A Human Link: Piece on Agnieszka Holland at Culture pl

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  I wrote this piece on Agnieszka Holland's work and reputation for Culture.pl.  You can read it here . 
Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Theatre Review: Look Back in Anger (Almeida)

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"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, and many hearts are sick at what they see in England now." (John Osborne, 1959) Given its (pe...
Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Awake, Arise: A Report on Awakenings (Przebudzenia) - the 13th Retroperspektywy Festival (Łódź, 23/8 - 1/9 2024)

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Culminating in the sublime  LIVET: Suite for the Earth concert, which brought together performers from Poland, Ukraine, Norway and Bulgaria...
Monday, 19 August 2024

Film Review: Lee (dir. Ellen Kuras, 2023)

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  Ellen Kuras's biopic of Lee Miller has been a long-in-gestation passion project for its tenacious producer-star Kate Winslet. The pass...
Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Sight and Sound Summer 2024

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  The summer issue of Sight and Sound is out now. I interviewed Agnieszka Holland about Green Border for this issue. More details here . 
Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Concert Review: Barb Jungr - Singing into My Seventies (Crazy Coqs, May 2024)

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Barb Jungr (Photo by Steve Ullathorne) It's not everyone who'd necessarily opt to celebrate their 70th birthday by performing a trio...
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