But Hollywood was also calling. In tandem with his stage career, in 1952 he received the first of his seven Oscar nominations with a best supporting actor nod for My Cousin Rachel, following it up a year later by making...
Released on 26 November in the US, 28 November in Turkey and Taiwan, and 12 December in the UK and IrelandNetflix11. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out MysteryDaniel Craig puts on his tailored suit and his extravagant Southern accent...
Having survived nine crash landings, aviator Alfred Buckham created some of the earliest and most awe-inspiring bird's-eye images. To achieve them, he risked his life, employing perilous, death-defying acts of ingenuity."What scenes of Grandeur and Beauty!" exclaimed Thomas Baldwin in...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Judge Doom shows his true self in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)Robert Zemeckis's live-action/cartoon Chinatown pastiche highlights the violence and sadism inherent in cartoons, with both "toons" and humans being electrocuted, stabbed, crushed, and generally traumatised in a variety of...
The two quillsCompounding that friction between the restless flux and sombre stillness of Marat's discrepant hands is David's seemingly redundant decision to insert into the stripped-down scene not one ink-dipped quill, but two. Between the lifeless fingers of his right...
PBS(Credit: PBS)9. The American RevolutionNext year will mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence, and ahead of that landmark Ken Burns takes what promises to be a fresh, bracing look at the US fight...
When Townsend returned from Belgium in October, Margaret said that if she were to marry him, she would have to renounce her right to succession, her annual £6,000 Civil List income, her HRH title, and status as a member of...
More like this:• Why the year's most acclaimed film flopped• 12 of the best films to watch this October• Why Lady Macbeth is a misunderstood villainWhen Hedda landed on the London stage, also in 1891, that first UK production played...
"They weren't buddies," author El-Hai tells the BBC. "But they formed a connection, and Kelley recognised that they shared certain personality traits." As well as acknowledging Göring's charm and intelligence, the doctor noted his drive, his defiance, his enormous ego,...
In Ingres's La Grande Odalisque, 1814, a lounging woman's absurdly elongated lumbar was lampooned by critics for its anatomical illogic. So severely has the artist taffy tugged his subject's backbone, medical scholars have since estimated that she has been given...
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