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Best of 2019: Film
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
THERE was an inordinate amount of high-calibre films released this year, addressing hot topics such as racism, female empowerment, mad monarchs and a whole range of social and political issues.
Whittling down such a bumper crop is well-nigh impossible but in my top 10 is Peter Farrelly's stunning Oscar-winning Green Book. It's inspired by the real-life story and friendship of a working-class Italian American bouncer (Viggo Mortensen), hired to drive an African-American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) on a tour of venues through the 1960s US South.
Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite is a totally surreal but stylish period drama set in 18th-century England about the ailing and unpredictable Queen Anne — the magnificent and Academy Award-winning Olivia Colman — and the two women (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) competing for her affections.
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