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Filmmaker Charlotte Regan has been moving steadily up the creative ladder with music videos, short films and her 2023 feature debut…
Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius is generally discussed and judged – and judgment, of course, stands at the heart of the work – by those…
Ace bass-player Jasper Høiby achieved fame with his band Phronesis, recording and performing sophisticated yet accessible jazz, and…
The main female characters in Christian Petzold’s films are kindred spirits – sisters in subversiveness. Petzold and Nina Hoss collaborated…
French director Maurice Tourneur (1876-1961) trained as an interior decorator and illustrator, the move into film a logical progression…
For me, New Zealand has always felt like both a centre and an edge. It is a place people travel to, rather than through. That sense of…
With the good looks and dash of his signature 1947 Triumph Roadster, the Jersey detective is back for a second season in his new…
There’s something slightly odd about listening to Bluebeard’s Castle, Bartók’s great opera of darkness, on a sunlit spring afternoon.…
Along with Harry Styles, Zayn is one of the stars to emerge from the immensely successful boy-band One Direction. Now no longer a mere "boy…