Tate has announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2005. The artists are Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling. Darren Almond’s work addresses the themes of time, geography and memory. He uses a wide range of media including film, photography and sculpture to explore the passing of [...]
Art | Artist | Culture | Director | Exhibition | Film | Gallery | Installation | Modern | Music | Painting | Photography | SocialA. R. Rahman, having scored for over 75 movies and sold over 150 million albums, is almost worshipped as a god in some parts of India. However, despite his huge success he is ever the reluctant celebrity, preferring to let his work do the talking. Rahman will bring his Live, 3D Concert to Wembley Arena [...]
Artist | Bollywood | Classical | Concert | Director | Film | History | Lover | Magic | Movie | Music | MusicianSeptember sees a refreshing East Asian film festival screened on our doorstep. Firecracker Magazine brings Firecracker Showcase 2005 to London. 40 films, many of them UK Premieres, from eight East Asian countries will be shown in four venues over eleven days.The increased appetite for East Asian film internationally, brought on by the successes of Hero, [...]
Actor | Awareness | Cinema | Comics | Director | Festival | Film | Filmmaker | MovieThe UK’s first film simultaneously released in cinemas, on the internet and on DVD, and fully digital from conception to exhibition. London premiere on 15 July 2005 at Genesis Cinema. Dogwoof Digital in partnership with Tiscali, Genesis Cinema & Silverscreen is releasing Cottonopolis films production EMR simultaneously in cinemas, on the internet and on DVD [...]
Actor | Cinema | Director | Exhibition | Festival | Film | Filmmaker | PhotographyThe latest Indian blockbuster featuring an International cast and aimed at a crossover audience released recently in the UK. Sangeeta Datta talks to Aamir Khan about his influences and politics. Bollywood is now India’s biggest calling card in the ever growing business of entertainment. It is the new buzzword and mantra in Diasporic cross cultural [...]
Actor | Artist | Awareness | Bollywood | Cinema | Communities | Director | Film | Filmmaker | History | Hollywood | Iconic | Movie | Music | Performance | Political | Theatre | WarIf you are looking for the hottest ticket in town, the sold-out play of the year, albeit in a very small theatre (the King’s Head in Islington), or a vicious, no-nonsense send-up of Britain’s modern-day ruling class, Who’s The Daddy? is on its way to be proclaimed as the most controversial new play of the [...]
Actor | Designer | Director | Editor | Events | Modern | Political | Theatre | War | WriterWilliam Shakespeare’s short, savage tragedy about a military hero who is spurred on by his ambitious wife and dangerously fascinated with witchcraft is staged at the Arcola Theatre this September by Out of Joint Productions. The action unfolds in an African state torn apart by war, and includes promenade elements. Director, Max Stafford-Clark says of [...]
Actor | Director | Magic | Modern | Music | Theatre | WarThe Royal National Theatre eagerly and protectively awaits the title and production of Mike Leigh’s new play, as do we, excited by the mystery and fascination of it all. Will it cause a tempest, flooding the South Bank venue with honour or derision? “I want you to get an interview with Mike Leigh!” The assertion [...]
Actor | Art | BBC | Director | Drama | Editor | Film | Hollywood | International | Movie | Opera | TheatreA tightly delivered and highly professional musical offering. Set in the British black community, musical production The Big Life is one of two well-received plays running in the West End. The Big Life was created at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, from where it transferred to its current home at the Apollo Theatre, having had [...]
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