Category: Arts
‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’: Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Baz Luhrmann, director and song producer In 1997, my music supervisor Anton Monsted and I decided to make a charity album with remixes of songs [more…]
‘Who’s trying to wind me up?’ Hotel singer on being asked to open for Take That
The Scottish singer who was drafted in at the last minute to replace Olly Murs supporting Take That has said he thought it was a [more…]
Dionne Warwick review – fascinating look back is a little short on songs
In 1962, 21-year-old Dionne Warwick sang the Burt Bacharach and Hal David-penned Don’t Make Me Over to launch a career spanning six Grammys and 100m [more…]
Drake denies allegations by Kendrick Lamar of underage sex and harbouring secret child
Drake has denied allegations of child sex offences and of him harbouring a secret child, both levelled at him by Kendrick Lamar in recent days. [more…]
‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’: Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot
For most directors it would be an agonising predicament: how do you translate a novel with no discernible plot, in which nothing really happens, to [more…]
Drylongso review – charming 90s indie is a genre-resistant film that keeps its DIY dazzle
The title is an African American term from the US south meaning “ordinary” or “ordinariness” – but there’s nothing ordinary about this 1998 indie from [more…]
‘You struggled with my film? Fantastic!’ Alice Rohrwacher and her riotous new tomb-raiding tale
Alice Rohrwacher could be the European arthouse made flesh, or its distilled essence, bottled and preserved for the ages. She’s quoting Italian poets one minute [more…]
‘People think it’s just for emo or gothic kids’: the Kenyan metalhead leading a new wave of African rock
As a teenager, Martin Kanja spent countless late nights listening to heavy metal on a local radio show. The furious riffs, shrieks, growls and distorted [more…]
Mambar Pierrette review – subtle and big-hearted parable of women’s resilience in Cameroon
The simple image of pushing a seam through a sewing machine becomes a profound life statement in Rosine Mbakam’s debut feature, which is focused on [more…]
‘I get a little stir-crazy’: Jennifer Connelly on David Bowie, working with family and going back to college
Jennifer Connelly is on a Zoom call from her home in Brooklyn, jetlagged after attending Louis Vuitton’s pre-fall 2024 show in Shanghai, which does not [more…]