Bo Burnham foreshadows his emotional intimacy found in Inside through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Realistic and raw, there is an internal battle both on and off screen as teenage life is validated on a personal level that is hard to find elsewhere. In his directorial debut, Bo Burnham captures lightning in a bottle (a feat he would accomplish again
An Italian city is going ahead with plans to host an art exhibition by a Chinese dissident despite a request from China's embassy to cancel it, the mayor said in comments published Friday. The exhibition by Badiucao, a cartoonist also known as "The Chinese Banksy", is expected to denounce Chinese political repression and censorship of information on
Spazju Kreattiv is screening a rendition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by ŻfinMalta with choreography by Berlin-based Romanian artist Sergiu Matis. Matis adapted the play’s themes of obsessive love, nature and the mystical to modern times, bringing in the new themes of climate change, feminism and the colonialist, capitalist west. The
The master of ultra-ironic hipster filmmaking, Wes Anderson doubles down on his one-of-a-kind style with the release this week of The French Dispatch , an ode to journalists and his adopted country. The Texan director's latest film crams in some major star power, with Timothee Chalamet and Benicio del Toro joining Anderson regulars such as Owen Wilson,
Armed with a set of pencils and a feather to sweep away eraser dust, Hitomi Tateno is training the next generation of anime artists at a new Netflix-funded academy as global demand for the Japanese genre soars. From runaway box-office triumph Demon Slayer to recent Cannes sensation Belle , anime has shaken off its reputation as a geeky subculture,
Bernard Haitink, widely considered one of the greatest conductors of his generation, has died in London at the age of 92, his management agency said. The Dutch maestro, revered for his readings of Beethoven, Mahler and Bruckner in a career spanning more than 60 years, died at his home in the presence of his family, UK-based Askonas Holt said in a statement
PIERRE LOUIS ATTARD , Gaulitana: A Festival of Music manager, gives an overview of the recently concluded ‘GauLive’ series which rounded up the 14 th edition of the festival. After the initial plans for a hybrid 2021 edition of Gaulitana: A Festival of Music in spring had to be abandoned when public events were practically barred, the festival team
This week's Frankfurt book fair, the world's oldest and largest, brings with it the first wave of pandemic novels. But are readers ready to relive coronavirus and lockdown life through fictional characters? Some of the best-known authors have pandemic tales on the way, with Jodi Picoult finding inspiration in a tourist stranded abroad, while Margaret
Canadian pianist Bruce Xiaoyu Liu was awarded first prize in the Chopin piano competition in Warsaw on Thursday, clinching one of the world's most prestigious music awards. "Being able to play Chopin in Warsaw is one of the best things you can imagine," 24-year-old Liu said as the jury announced their decision at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
Tehran's International Short Film Festival opened this week, for the first time as an Oscar-qualifying event, giving winning entries a shot at an Academy Award. The festival jury has members from the Islamic republic as well as Italy, Japan, France and Austria. The festival, now in its 38th edition and running until Sunday, earned qualification this
