WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Film round-up: January 27, 2023
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews All The Beauty and The Bloodshed, The Fabelmans, January, Unwelcome
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed (18)
Directed by Laura Poitras
★★★★
THIS powerful and haunting documentary by Oscar winning film-maker Laura Poitras is the epic story of artist and activist Nan Goldin, her trailblazing career and her endless fight to hold one of America’s most powerful families to account for the opioid crisis.
It is a compilation of Goldin’s groundbreaking photography, slide-shows, intimate interviews and rare footage, shot by Goldin herself, of her protests against the Sacklers who patronise the arts but whose fortune derives from the profits of Purdue Pharma, and its product, the addictive opiate Oxycontin, whose misuse sparked an epidemic.
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