Happy 80th birthday to Bob Dylan, rock’s most prescient, timeless voice | John Harris
[ad_1] When I first properly listened to Bob Dylan, I was 10 years old. Each Saturday, Radio 1 aired a series titled 25 Years of Rock, based on news and music spanning the years 1955 to 1979. And that week, in among archive clips of Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson, the Vietnam war and whatever else […]
Moscow’s oldest cinema reopens after seven-year renovation | Russia
[ad_1] While many cinemas around the world are shut and face difficulties in the coronavirus pandemic, one is bucking the trend: Moscow’s Khudozhestvenny, a storied venue that hosted some of the first showings of Battleship Potemkin in 1926 and had Leo Tolstoy among in its audience. After a seven-year renovation, the imperial-era cinema, which first […]
‘They killed my best friend for supper!’ Gunda, the farmyard film that could put you off eating meat for ever | Documentary films
[ad_1] When Victor Kossakovsky was four, his parents sent him from St Petersburg to stay with his uncle’s family in the countryside. “It was a cold winter,” he says, brrr-ing over Zoom. “Minus 30 degrees.” Warmth came from the boy’s friendship with a one-month-old piglet named Vasya. They were inseparable – until she became cutlets […]
‘I’m broken and my only sin was being a woman’ – Gabrielle Goliath’s survivors | Photography
[ad_1] The event that shaped Gabrielle Goliath’s life as an artist happened when she was nine years old: a schoolfriend was killed in an act of domestic violence, the details of which have never been clear. “It would have been an accident,” she says, from her home in Johannesburg, 30 years on. “But, you know, […]
Kentaro Miura, creator of bestselling manga Berserk, dies aged 54 | Comics and graphic novels
[ad_1] Kentaro Miura, creator of the long-running dark fantasy manga Berserk – one of the bestselling manga series ever written – has died at the age of 54. His US publisher Dark Horse Comics, describing Miura as a “master artist and storyteller”, said he had suffered acute aortic dissection and died on 6 May. “He […]
‘We went to the dark side’: horror film shows reality of Mexico’s migrant trail | Mexico
[ad_1] Two teenage boys wave goodbye to their mothers across a field in rural Mexico, leaving home in search of the American dream. The opening moments of the Mexican film-maker Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying Features, available to stream from this week, reflects scenes played out every day across Mexico and Central America, as men, women and […]
Hilary Mantel and JK Rowling add lots to auction for global vaccine rollout | Books
[ad_1] A literary auction raising money to help vaccinate the world against coronavirus has made more than £23,000 so far, as book lovers bid to win signed novels by authors including Hilary Mantel, as well as mentoring sessions from star publishers and agents. Bidding at Books for Vaccines for a personal consultation with literary agent […]
Matthew McConaughey ‘making calls’ about run for Texas governor – report | Matthew McConaughey
[ad_1] The actor Matthew McConaughey appears to be seriously considering entering politics, according to a report on Sunday which said the Dallas Buyer’s Club star has been “quietly making calls to influential people in Texas political circles” as he mulls a run for governor. McConaughey, 51, was born in Uvalde, Texas, and lives in Austin, […]
Why Not You review – a hollow depiction of homophobic violence | Movies
[ad_1] Here’s yet another film that falls disappointingly flat when the film-makers are more preoccupied with delivering topical messages than outlining nuanced characters. Why Not You tries hard to comment on a mosaic of issues – homophobia, addiction, PTSD, religious extremism – yet ends up hollow and emotionally vapid. The debut feature from Evi Romen, […]
20 photographs of the week | Art and design
[ad_1] Roma, Texas, US Edgardo, an asylum-seeker from Guatemala, holds his two-week-old daughter, Adwana, as they sit amid a group of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande River into the US from Mexico. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
