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WEBSep 16, 2024 · Here comes the flood: Bob Dylan's 1974 Live Recordings Tim Cumming Wednesday, 18 September 2024 Lighters at the ready, because here comes the flood. Drawn from 16-track tape, 1/4in reels and lo-fi sound board cassettes that are now a half century old, the 27 CDs of 431 performances, 417 of them previously unreleased, of Dylan and The Band’s 1974 arena tour of the US, is a set that challenges ...
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WEBOne wonders what sitcom writers will do when supermarkets finally sweep the last corner shops away with nobody left old enough to buy cigarettes, nobody so offline that they buy newspapers and nobody eating sweets, priced out by sugar taxes. The convenience shop is already acquiring a patina of nostalgia, crowned by a warm glow of happier days.
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WEBEngland was movie-mad long before the US. Contrary to appearances in a Hollywood-dominated world, the celluloid film process was patented in London in 1890 and by 1905 minute-long films of news and horse-racing were being made and shown widely in purpose-built cinemas, with added sound.
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WEBThe Instigators, Apple TV+ review - Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are back on the Beantown beat Adam Sweeting Saturday, 10 August 2024 . This heist-orientated black comedy could appeal to fans of the likes of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven or the same director’s Out of Sight, without ever quite matching their zip and sparkle.But there are enough loud bangs and big bucks to provide an ...
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WEBJul 31, 2024 · Video art and the transcendent. The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations.
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WEBThe Perfect Couple, Netflix review - an inconvenient death ruins lavish Nantucket wedding Adam Sweeting Friday, 13 September 2024 Based on the novel by Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple is an expensively-dressed fable about a lavish wedding in Nantucket, the desirable island paradise off Cape Cod, which on this evidence is an enclave of conspicuous wealth and gross moral turpitude.
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WEBProm 68, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Garsington Opera review - eerie beauty sometimes faintly glittering. Some operas shine in the vasts of the Albert Hall, others seem to creep back into their beautiful shells. Glyndebourne’s Carmen blazed, though Bizet never intended his opera for a big theatre, while Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream ...
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WEBThe Arts Desk reviews all the major exhibitions of art and photography as well as interviewing leading creative figures in depth about their careers and working practices. Our writers include Fisun Guner, Judith Flanders, Sarah Kent, Mark Hudson, Sue Steward and Josh Spero. Close Footnote. Visual Arts Buzz. Visual Arts Reviews.
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WEBProm 62, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, Bavarian RSO, Rattle review - sound over momentum. David Nice Saturday, 07 September 2024. Mahler’s Sixth is one of those apocalyptic megaliths that shouldn’t be approached too often by audiences or conductors. It’s been a constant in Simon Rattle’s treasury since 1989, when he first recorded it with ...
Firebrand review - surviving Henry VIII
WEBSep 6, 2024 · Maybe a game of tennis would have been nice. Horses gallop but the story canters. (The film is adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Fremantle.) At the denouement, we’re given a sudden narrative jolt by way of an ahistorical, Tarantino-ish twist that gets Parr out of her pickle. Another thing Parr was responsible for was making legally sure Henry ...