Curtis saw his mission as "documenting what he thought of as 'a dying race'," Cross tells the BBC. He cropped out from his photos "signs of modernity" such as clocks, she says, serving the illusion that Indigenous people remain stopped...
Released on 25 December in the UK and 26 December in the UKSearchlight PIctures11. The Testament of Ann LeeOne of the last year's most acclaimed films was The Brutalist, directed by Brady Corbet and co-written by him and his partner,...
The Shakespeare drama starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley has a stellar cast but is "exploitative" and lacks subtlety – "it tugs the heartstrings and targets the tear ducts with absolute ruthlessness".There's no doubt that, in many people's eyes, Hamnet...
It has also led to a whole franchise of spin-offs and tie-ins, including a prequel theatre show (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) and an upcoming animated series (Stranger Things: Tales from '85), plus board games, comics and clothing lines. On...
"Throughout the years before I made this, I kept on telling Sean that I really want to tell a story about women. The way I grew up in Taiwan, there's a lot of expectations, a lot of limitations that we...
7. AmadeusThe 1984 film Amadeus, in which the composer Antonio Salieri admits to jealously (and fictionally) causing the death of his far more gifted rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, won the Oscar for best picture and is now considered a classic....
The Little People concept had quickly attracted wider attention well beyond rural Georgia. Babyland even got a mention in the UK's Daily Express as early as 1980, albeit as "the kind of lunatic scheme that appeals to Americans". Still, as...
Oscar-tipped new film Hamnet imagines the home life of William and Agnes Shakespeare – and the "soul-crushing" loss of their child. It's a powerful story that fills in many blanks.In Hamnet – Maggie O'Farrell's eloquent 2020 novel and the deeply...
With Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked, on which the successful Broadway musical and now duo of feature films are based, The Wicked Witch of the West was given a name – Elphaba – and a backstory that elicits empathy for...
Hidden for decades from public view, the artist's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it so valuable?A mysterious and relatively little-known painting by Gustav Klimt is now the most expensive work...
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