Features & Interviews
Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek: 'Is our film porny?'
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Spoiler alert: About sixty-four minutes into our debut feature film, one of the main female characters undresses for the camera. Alicja is being filmed by the other protagonist, a young American documentarian named Katie.
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theartsdesk at the Ravenna Festival 2019 - in heaven with Dante's Purgatorio and Estonian rites
Friday, 12 July 2019
Two years ago Ermanna Montanari and Marco Martinelli, the visionary partners who have powered Ravenna's revolutionary Teatro delle Albe since 1986, led local people and international visitors down through the circles of Dante's Inferno. In 2021, the 700th anniversary of the greatest Italian poet's birth, they will take us into the presence of God.
On making The Left Behind: 'We've...
Tuesday, 09 July 2019
The Left Behind is a television drama marinated in real-world research. It tells the story of a young man unable to break free from his bullshit...
'A product not only of his era but also of...
Monday, 08 July 2019
When Mozart was an established composer living in Vienna during the final years of his short life, a young student seemingly came to him to seek his...
theartsdesk in Treviso - cultural patronage,...
Friday, 05 July 2019
Fortunate those Italian towns and cities whose Renaissance rulers looked to the arts to enrich their domain. Now neglect of cultural heritage can be...
First Person: Damian Cruden on reinvigorating the Bard away from London with Shakespeare's Rose
The onetime director of 'The Railway Children' sets out his vision for bringing Shakespeare afresh to the country's 'cultural pageant' |
theartsdesk in Svalbard: cultural excellence at the top of the world
At 78 degrees north, polar bears outnumber people - but Norway's musical flag flies high |
Franco Zeffirelli: 'I had this feeling that I was special'
Recalling a two-day audience at the home of the great maestro, who has died aged 96 |
Roger Wright on Oliver Knussen: ‘his challenge to us all to remain curious lives on’
Inspiring composer, conductor and mentor remembered by Snape Maltings CEO |
First Person: Matt Henry on fulfilling 'a dream come true' to play the legendary singer Sam Cooke
The Olivier Award-winning alumnus of 'Kinky Boots' shifts gears to tell a vibrant story of 1960s America |
Bob Dylan Special - Rolling Thunder Revue, Netflix
Martin Scorsese reexamines the legendary 1975 tour |
Bob Dylan Special - theartsdesk Q&A: Scarlet Rivera
The violinist on 'Desire' and 'Rolling Thunder Revue' talks about working with Dylan at his peak |
theartsdesk in Bergen: Gothic shocks and Romantic treats
Genres and periods mix and match in style at Norway's premier arts festival |
theartsdesk in Gothenburg: concert-hall storytelling rivets at the Point Music Festival
Galvanizing Santtu-Matias Rouvali kicks off, and two dozen instrumentalists go barefoot |
First Person: Conductor Maxime Pascal on Stockhausen at the Southbank Centre
The man in control of a cosmic opera tonight on its visionary German composer |
Cannes 2019: Week One - a genre-heavy opening
The 72nd film festival showcases ghouls, the gig economy, and gun-wielding avengers |
First Person: Ellen McDougall on finding the commonality in the American classic 'Our Town'
The director explains what drew her to the season-opener this summer at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park |
First Person: Liam Byrne on bringing Versailles to the City's 'Culture Mile'
The viola da gamba player on pleasures at the Barbican's free Sound Unbound festival |
theartsdesk in Tallinn and Tartu: Estonian Music Days go global
Latest host of the International Society for Contemporary Music still leads the way |
First Person: Sam Lee on singing with endangered nightingales
The folk singer on streaming for Extinction Rebellion and the Absolute Bird series |
First Person: Robert Hollingworth on I Fagiolini's 'Leonardo - Shaping the Invisible'
Images reflected in music 500 years after the ultimate Renaissance man's death |
Obituary: Bibi Andersson 1935-2019
David Thompson pays tribute to one of cinema's most enduring icons |
For Folk's Sake: 'I owe my very existence to Morris dancing'
Richard Macer, who has made documentaries about Vogue and dyslexia, introduces his latest |
In the spirit of the composer as innovator: Samir Savant on the London Handel Festival
The director presents a month of enterprising events |
theartsdesk in Zanzibar - behind the veil
Searching for the real island at this year's Sauti za Busara festival of African Music |
Keith Flint, 1969-2019
The Prodigy lose their punk brother, Keith Flint, aged only 49 |
A Previn treasury
Selected recordings of the great musician, who has died just short of his 90th birthday |
Trevor Nunn: 'I'm amazed by Harley Granville Barker's prescience and extraordinary modernity'
The veteran director introduces the London premiere of the English dramatist's heretofore unknown play, 'Agnes Colander' |
theartsdesk in Tromsø: the celluloid Cold War
The Tromsø Film Festival in Norway has revealed some little-seen spy films from behind the Iron Curtain |
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