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Adapting Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play in Salzburg
The songs explode. The passion overwhelms. It’s opulent when it needs to be, fun when it needs to be, and intoxicating
Orlando Whitfield chronicles his friendship and dealings with the wunderkind art dealer during a heady ‘gold rush’ decade in the art world
A best-selling author, an entrepreneur and an art collector himself, Magnus Resch has written and commented on the art market for years
Largely a fair judgement on a considerable year for television
A new song mocks the unrealistic romantic expectations among young urban American women
He is now a free man and able to resume a career that has undergone some spectacular highs and lows over the past few decades
It would be nigh-on impossible to compete with the original
It has the comforting throwback feel of a movie that could have been made virtually any time over the past few decades
If proper action is taken, then the situation is redeemable
He was an actor who, even in the weakest films he appeared in, brought class and dignity
What drives people’s interest in art is profoundly linked to what makes us human
CreatiVets helps disabled veterans through the arts
How did the band achieve this curious headlock on our affections?
The producers will, you feel, be relieved today
No American company has yet signed a deal to pick it up for either a cinema or streaming release
Summer blockbusters in Hollywood have hope again, as does the career of the man once known as Big Willie Style
The lawyer of the cinematographer he fatally shot referred to the show as ‘calculated and cynical’
This is full-strength wackiness, removed from any need to conform to conventional ideas of what drama should or should not be
They think watching Lawrence of Arabia on an iPhone is acceptable
Early word suggests that the Palme d’Or is likely to go to the French director Jacques Audiard
This month marks the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of hippie culture itself
The eccentricity and idiosyncrasy of Britain’s most commercially successful duo should be cherished and extolled
The original cultural punch of the 1970s production has been replaced with gaudy, empty commercialism
‘I’d like to say we’re trying to be the repository for Giza’s past, Giza’s present and Giza’s future’
All will be revealed soon enough at the Cannes Film Festival
The show is perhaps the most overtly liberal mainstream entertainment in the English-speaking world
It was innovative in exploring themes not present in the original novel or 1980s show
Even the dismal artistic results that have ensued with Rebel Moon will do little to check the filmmaker in his tracks