wed 16/05/2012

Features & Interviews

Jean Vigo: Celebrating the father of French New Wave

Kieron Tyler

The release of Jean Vigo’s wonderful L’Atalante on DVD is cause enough to celebrate, but the arrival of everything he committed to film in one place is more than that – it commemorates this special filmmaker’s genius and humanity. Zero de Conduite and L’Atalante are thrilling films, whatever their context and influence on the French New Wave. They need to be seen.This double DVD set, L'Atalante and the Films of Jean Vigo, includes A Propos de Nice (1930), Taris (1931), Zero de Conduite (...

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George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door

Graeme Thomson

My, what strange and wondrous treasures await the record producer given exclusive access to the private vaults of a Beatle. He will, for instance, find entire radio programmes preserved on multi-track tape, and recordings of F1 cars roaring past at some unspecified race track. He will stumble upon a humbled Fab being given his very first sitar lesson by Ravi Shankar, and be privy to a brief musical moment beamed in across the decades from a room at the Jaipur Palace Hotel. There will be a few...

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Collect 2012

theartsdesk

Collect is the international art fair for exquisitely crafted contemporary objects. Launched in 2004 by the Crafts Council, the fair represents...

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theartsdesk in Budapest: Hay Goes to Hungary

Dylan Moore

Four weeks ahead of its core event in the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye the world’s leading festival of literature, ideas and the arts rolls into...

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Interview: 10 Questions for Clotilde Hesme

Demetrios Matheou

Earlier this year Clotilde Hesme won the César, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, for “most promising actress” in the excellent, atypical love story...

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Turner Prize 2012 shortlist

Fisun Güner

A so-so selection with a clear popular favourite

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theartsdesk at Sundance London

Ellin Stein

Robert Redford brings a little flavour of snowy Utah to the O2

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Interview: American Pie Cast Reunion

Veronica Lee

Making a franchise fresh: gross-out stars on getting together for (yet) another sequel

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Interview: Whit Stillman, Metropolitan Filmmaker

Ellin Stein

The director explains why his new film Damsels in Distress has been so long in the pipeline

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theartsdesk in Liverpool: The Sea Odyssey

Glyn Môn Hughes

Titanic-themed street puppeteering on an epic scale takes over Liverpool for the weekend

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Levon Helm: 1940-2012

Graeme Thomson

Farewell to the heart and soul of The Band

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theartsdesk at the Laugharne Weekend

Dylan Moore

Report from the post-punk festival of words and music in Dylan Thomas's Carmarthenshire village

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On reinventing Clytemnestra

Gwyneth Lewis

The former National Poet of Wales reassesses a wronged mother for the newly restored Sherman Cymru

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theartsdesk at the Busara Festival: Africa's long song of defiance

Thembi Mutch

Zanzibar's annual music festival offers an uplifting platform to Africa's disaffected voices

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Why film stars should never play film stars

Ronald Bergan

Nicole Kidman to play Grace Kelly? No thank you

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Gavin Bryars on The Sinking of the Titanic

Peter Culshaw

Titanoraks: forget the telly and film re-runs, this is the most evocative way to mark the centenary

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theartsdesk in Istanbul: Borusan boosts the Arts

Peter Culshaw

What do you get a millionaire who has everything? An orchestra

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