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Saturday, 31 December 2022
Thursday, 29 December 2022
Friday, 23 December 2022
#MarkKermode #SimonMayo #FilmReviews Mark Kermode reviews The Pale Blue Eye - Kermode and Mayo's Take
A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
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Tuesday, 20 December 2022
Monday, 19 December 2022
#Art #ArtHistory Which world-famous artist might have had a hand in this painting? | National Gallery
As part of The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour, 'Tobias and the Angel' by the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, is visiting three museums across the country: Oriel Davies, The Beacon Museum and Carmarthenshire Museum.
In this video, partners from each venue and from the National Gallery explore the history and meaning of this remarkable painting, and ask which famous pupil of Verrocchio might've contributed to the work.
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Saturday, 17 December 2022
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
#Books #Classics Medusa's Story The British Library Join Natalie Haynes’ as she launches her latest epic retelling of classic myth: Stone Blind
Join Natalie Haynes’ as she launches her latest epic retelling of classic myth: Stone Blind, Medusa’s Story, with readings from Lisa Dwan. Natalie will be in conversation with Monique Roffey.
Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. When she is raped by a god, Medusa is changed forever: turned into a Gorgon with sharp teeth, snakes for hair, and a gaze that turns any living creature to stone. She endures a life of solitude, until Perseus embarks upon his fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon...
From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships, this is the story of how a young woman became a monster. And how she was never really a monster at all.
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster and – according to the Washington Post – a ‘rock star mythologist’. Her previous books are The Amber Fury, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, The Children of Jocasta, A Thousand Ships (shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction) and Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myth. Six series of her show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics have been broadcast on Radio 4: all are available on BBC Sounds.
Monique Roffey FRSL is an award winning Trinidadian born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir. Her most recent novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch, (Peepal Tree Press) won the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2020, and was nominated for eight major awards. Her other Caribbean novels are The White Woman on the Green Bicycle and House of Ashes. Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature in 2013. She is a co-founder of Writers Rebel within Extinction Rebellion, and Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Lisa Dwan is an Irish performer and writer. She stars in the Top Boy and Bloodlands series, and her theatre work includes a one-woman production of her adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s No’s Knife. Dwan writes and teaches on theatre, culture, gender, and Beckett. She is a visiting professor at Princeton University, and was artist in residence at Columbia University, where she developed a new theatre piece with Margaret Atwood based on Medea.
Monday, 12 December 2022
#Film Mark Kermode reviews White Material (2009) | BFI Player
“A typically uncompromising drama from the dynamite team of director Claire Denis and leading lady Isabelle Huppert that reaffirms both as powerfully independent voices of modern cinema.”
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Saturday, 10 December 2022
Friday, 9 December 2022
#Film #IngmarBergman: Volume 4 (trailer) - on BFI Blu-ray from 23 January 2023 | BFI
The fourth of our multi-volume series celebrating the work of film icon Ingmar Bergman, featuring eight late classics across six discs https://shop.bfi.org.uk/ingmar-bergma...
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For more than 50 years, Ingmar Bergman produced ground breaking works of cinema that established him as one of the world’s most acclaimed, enduring and influential filmmakers.
By the 1970s and 80s, Bergman was recognised as the doyen of directors but continued to produce trailblazing films throughout the latter period of his career.
This final volume includes Cries and Whispers (1972), his examination of suffering and the female psyche, Autumn Sonata (1978), his heralded collaboration with Ingrid Bergman, and his epic, Oscar-winning and deeply personal Fanny and Alexander (1982) (presented in both its theatrical and television versions).
The Films:
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Faro Document 1979 (1979)
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Fanny and Alexander (TV Series), (1983)
After the Rehearsal (1984)
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Wednesday, 7 December 2022
#History #AncientEgypt #RosettaStone THE BRITISH MUSEUM Learn how to read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Ilona Regulski | Curator's Corner
You asked for more Ilona. You asked for more ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. And you technically asked for as many tangents relating to ancient Egyptian life as possible (see our community post if you don't believe us). So hear it is: curator of ancient writing Ilona Regulski is going to teach you how to read your first sentence in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Definitely not hieroglyphics!
CONTENT WARNING:
There is a deeply palpable love of verbs throughout.
Also, Nick is there.
If you'd like to find out more about how hieroglyphs were deciphered in the 1800s, we currently have an exhibition on all about exactly that:
Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt is on now!
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Tuesday, 6 December 2022
#Art Unexpected Views: Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings on Uccello | National Gallery
Hear from artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings about the themes and details they found in Uccello's painting that echo their own approach and interests.
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Friday, 2 December 2022
#Film #MarkKermode #SimonMayo #FilmReviews Mark Kermode reviews Nil by Mouth - Kermode and Mayo’s Take
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A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working-class family sees his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.
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