Arts
Snakes and ladders
In Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film, the ‘exterminating angel’ of the title is a mystery illness. A debilitating virus — much…
Beauty and the banal
In 1965 William Eggleston took the first colour photograph that, he felt, really succeeded. The location was outside a supermarket…
Losing the plot
Consider it commercially. So powerful is the pull of the Potter franchise that the characters could simply re-enact the plot…
Poetry in motion
For almost 60 years, whatever the political weather, Russia and Britain have maintained mutually assured respect as far as ballet…
Far from Naples
It’s a brave dramatist who would seek to adapt for radio the hit novels of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante.…
Visions of suburbia
Art is aspiring; hungry; acutely aware of what it could become, and of what it could lack; longs for safety…
Corn again
The Carer is a Hungarian-British co-production about a cantankerous old thesp (Brian Cox) and the young Hungarian woman (Coco König)…
Poetry in motion
For almost 60 years, whatever the political weather, Russia and Britain have maintained mutually assured respect as far as ballet…
Beauty and the banal
In 1965 William Eggleston took the first colour photograph that, he felt, really succeeded. The location was outside a supermarket…
Losing the plot
Consider it commercially. So powerful is the pull of the Potter franchise that the characters could simply re-enact the plot…
Losing the plot
Consider it commercially. So powerful is the pull of the Potter franchise that the characters could simply re-enact the plot…
Far from Naples
It’s a brave dramatist who would seek to adapt for radio the hit novels of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante.…
Far from Naples
It’s a brave dramatist who would seek to adapt for radio the hit novels of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante.…
Greenhouse or group hug?
The unacknowledged subtitle of Channel 4’s new reality series Eden (Mondays) is Die, Hippies! Die! Obviously they’re not going to…
Snakes and ladders
In Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film, the ‘exterminating angel’ of the title is a mystery illness. A debilitating virus — much…
Snakes and ladders
In Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film, the ‘exterminating angel’ of the title is a mystery illness. A debilitating virus — much…
The Ring Cycle
Although it was premiered in Bayreuth in 1876, it was another 122 years before The Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner…
1966 and all that
In the song ‘All the Young Dudes’, David Bowie gamely tried to reassure the youth of the Seventies that, despite…
Everything is illuminated
One could honour God with prayer, of course, and build cathedrals, amass treasuries, turn choirs into stained-glass jewel boxes, carve…
Heavenly bodies
Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…
Flawed genius
An inspired decision to stage Jesus Christ Superstar in a summer theatre in Regent’s Park. The action takes place outdoors,…
Hang the DJs
Electronic Dance Music is dying. You may not have noticed. It may not affect you directly. But it’s a really…
French connection
It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…
The lying game
JT LeRoy was a teenage hustler who emerged from a childhood of abuse, drug addiction and homelessness to write about…
Fever pitch
It cost just £4/10s for 19-year-old Alan Dryland to buy a season ticket that would take him inside the stadium…
