Category: Arts
Blood Simple at 40: how the Coens set the standard for modern noir
The loathsome proprietor of a Texas bar slumps in his office chair after hours, seemingly dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. Another man [more…]
‘It’s a PR battle’: inside the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni lawsuits
It Ends With Us should have been a success story. The long-awaited film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, a tale of cyclical domestic violence, [more…]
‘She couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk’: music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke – could it ward off depression and dementia too?
In 2015, Joni Mitchell suffered a catastrophic stroke. According to her friend, the musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, “when she got back from the hospital, [more…]
‘David Lynch altered our brains’: fellow directors, friends and fans remember a titan of cinema
‘I told them: There’s no way I can improve Blue Velvet’ Paul Schrader, director David couldn’t get Blue Velvet made. Dino De Laurentiis told David [more…]
Jeff Baena obituary
One of the few actor/director couples in the US independent film scene, Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena were never keen to discuss their personal lives [more…]
How have the California wildfires affected Hollywood?
The California wildfires have to date killed at least 25 people, destroyed or damaged more than 12,000 structures and put about 300,000 people on evacuation [more…]
Lost Ella Fitzgerald recordings to be released – including her take on 60s pop
Lost recordings of a 1967 Ella Fitzgerald concert, including her spin on the era’s pop songs such as Alfie and Music to Watch Girls By, [more…]
From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked
12. Inland Empire (2006) It is one of life’s eternal mysteries that for the last two decades of his life, no one was willing to [more…]
‘Music is a magic’: how David Lynch used song and sound to transcend reality
‘Music,” David Lynch said when I spoke to him for the Guardian last year, “is a magic”. We were discussing the album Cellophane Memories, which [more…]
‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age | Peter Bradshaw
One of Joan Plowright’s greatest screen performances came towards the very end of her career: a gloriously subtle, lovable appearance on Roger Michell’s documentary Nothing [more…]
