Nick Hasted
Articles By Nick Hasted
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![Rascals and ragamuffins: Josh O'Connor and costars in 'La Chimera'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Chimera%201.jpg?itok=WUJC8PT3)
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, Happy as...
![Feste (Julie Legrand) listens to Olivia (Anna Francolini) and the band in the queer café](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Twelfth%20Night.%20Anna%20Francolini%20%28Olivia%29.%20Credit%20-%20Richard%20Lakos.%20sized.jpeg?itok=vxMTQJUf)
In Shakespeare's day theatre was regarded as "wanton" by those of a Puritan disposition who feared boys dressed as girls could engender wicked...
![Pressburger (in glasses), Powell (gripping tripod), and crew filming '49th Parallel" (1941)](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/PP_1438WS_49P_MP%20crew%20crouched%20round%20camera%20BFI_Original%20Image_m160514%20%283%29_0.jpg?itok=lcVD9gWr)
This long, fascinating documentary was apparently intended as the centrepiece of last autumn’s BFI celebration of the films of Michael Powell and...
![Rosa Robson and Luca Kamleh Chapman in Multiple Casualty Incident - Don't leave, there's still half an hour to go](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/%28L-R%29%20Rosa%20Robson%20as%20Sarah%2C%20Luca%20Kamleh%20Chapman%20as%20Khaled%2C%20Credit%20Marc%20Brenner%281%29.jpg?itok=R1b3J_Ch)
We open on one of those grim, grim training rooms that all offices have - the apologetic sofa, the single electric kettle, the...
![Kanna Hashimoto and Hikaru Yamano in Spirited Away - You talkin' to me?](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/SPIRITED%20AWAY.%20Kanna%20Hashimoto%20%28Chihiro%29%20and%20Hikaru%20Yamano%20%28Kaonashi%20or%20No-Face%29.%20Photo%20by%20Johan%20Persson.jpg?itok=KBEl6zQ2)
Legions of Ghibli fanatics may love the heartwarming My Neighbour Totoro and the heartbreaking ...
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The buildup to this album offered quite a bit of hope. The promo blurb with it talks about “cutting loose, trying new things… hark[ing] back to...
!['Muse', 1910](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Muse%2C%201910%204R00900_1000x1000_0.jpg?itok=mLF188qF)
One hundred and twenty sculptures, and so much more: the current Brancusi blockbuster at the Centre Pompidou, the first large Paris show of the...
!['Swaken': Revolutionary sounds](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Bab%20LBluz%20-%20Swaken%20TAD.jpg?itok=-lVe91qu)
Bab L’Bluz are a French-Moroccan four-piece that play a tasty blend of fiery psychedelic rock backed up with hypnotic North African gnawa rhythms...
![Jon Bon Jovi, 40 years on](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/JonBon%20NEW%20MAIN.jpg?itok=Sh2PKt1d)
To mark the 40th anniversary of New Jersey’s second-greatest gift to rock’n’roll,...