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What a disgrace. Not content with cinemas openly infringing copyright and charging admission for stolen films, we now have online platforms deciding for themselves how film output is to be rated. - We are here -
Art · Cinema · New York · Society
A documentary about America's last two staff art critics has been released: House of Criticism, directed by Alison Chernick. The film tells the story of the lives of Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz. Smith joined The New York Times in 1986 on a part-time basis; in 2011
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The Government of the Russian Federation, jointly with the Ministry of Justice of Russia, is to consider the question of drafting regulatory legal acts aimed at granting cultural organisations the right to use works created by outstanding Russian authors in cases of unjustified refusal by rights holders to grant such
Architecture · Cinema · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Perhaps some will recall one of the most beautiful interiors in Paris from Kieślowski's "Three Colours: Blue" with Juliette Binoche, and from "Amélie". This canary yellow belongs to the Piscine de la Butte-aux-Cailles... or rather, to the Pontoise swimming pool. The landmark
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This week's five exhibitions are about time, and about how the living and the man-made deceive it. There is an artistic dynasty across four generations, newsreel film that stopped the moment, the faces of the theatre, deception as an engine of evolution and, to make up the
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Gustav Klimt painted "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" in 1917 and had not finished it when he died in 1918. The commission came from the wealthy Viennese Jewish Lieser family. For nearly a century the picture was known only from a black-and-white photograph of 1925: it vanished
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Emir Kusturica has been spotted at SPIEF. As the saying goes, if nobody catches cold, then everything will most certainly come to pass.
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The posthumous fate of an artist is rarely decided by the artist himself. It is decided by those who remain: an heir, a pupil, a gallerist, an executor, the sort of person who will gather the scattered works, arrange them by year and spend decades patiently reminding the world of
Cinema · Books · Heritage · Paris
The French are to make a film about the Louvre robbery. The director is Romain Gavras, and the source is a book by three journalists from Le Parisien, Le Monde and Paris Match, entitled Main Basse sur le Louvre, or “A Hand on the Louvre”, published by Flammarion this week.
Cinema · People · Nature
The American actress Tippi Hedren, famed for Hitchcock's The Birds, and her "domestic" big cats. Tippi, whose full name is Natalie, is the mother of the actress Melanie Griffith and the grandmother of Dakota Johnson. In 1969, with her second husband, Noel Marshall, she made the