Arts
Culture, from the arts desks.
- The GuardianPeter Medak, veteran director of The Krays and The Changeling, dies aged 88The film-maker enjoyed a long and varied film and TV career, from horror movies and true-crime thrillers to Cannibal and Breaking Bad Peter Medak, the British-Hungarian director of The Changeling, The Krays and Let Him…
- The GuardianIranian film-maker Jafar Panahi given new prison sentenceCharges against him are unclear after return to Iran despite being sentenced last year for ‘propaganda activities’ An Iranian court has handed the award-winning film director Jafar Panahi a new prison sentence of five…
- The GuardianJimmy Kimmel on Trump’s midterms mindset: ‘If his side wins, elections were honest’Late-night hosts discussed Trump discrediting midterms results, and Don Jr’s friendship with a Russian oligarch Late-night hosts looked into Republicans’ efforts to discredit election results ahead of the US midterms…
- The Guardian‘I knead the audience, like a baker!’ House music legend Peven Everett on life after cancer and vanquishing the ‘Disco Sucks’ movementA new documentary follows the Chicagoan from child trumpet prodigy to Gabriel-singing icon and DIY maverick. ‘Not everybody wants to see musical genius’, he says At We Out Here festival in Dorset in August, thousands of…
- The GuardianFilm buffs love it. Trump and Tom Hanks hosted it. Can TCM survive a Hollywood mega-merger?Since 1994, Turner Classic Movies has been a haven for old film lovers. Now with Skydance’s David Ellison calling the shots, fans are panicking over its unclear future I have made many attempts to lessen the existential…
- The GuardianThe Devils review – Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale is a frenzied aria of confrontation and hysteriaOliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave put in the performances of their lives in this film originally banned for obscenity that highlights the violence of power ‘I could never be Satan’s boy. I haven’t the humility.” The…