Sergey Smbatyan

Articles By Sergey Smbatyan

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

If nothing else, ITV’s new thriller Out There is a fabulous...

Despite Rossini’s banger of an overture and a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Daffy Duck as William Tell, I’ll wager that few non-German-speakers...

When Vladimir Jurowski planned this typically unorthodox programme, he could not have known that a disaster even greater, long-term, than 9/11 was...

Once again, Glasgow’s annual winter festival of traditional...

The blurb that accompanies this Criterion Blu-ray calls...

David Lynch’s final two features mapped a haunted Hollywood of curdled innocence and back-alley eeriness. Mulholland Drive (2001) seemed...

It took a while for journalists to identify the chain-smoking, Machiavellian figure who was a permanent presence at early international gatherings...

Most Brits don’t know much about South Africa today, but we do know about house values, so this new comedy by South African playwright and...

Ben Elton loves a scrap. The Motormouth of yesteryear, who made his name attacking Margaret Thatcher and her policies (and being attacked by the...