ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Film round-up: April 24, 2022
Maria Duarte reviews Ennio, Happening, Firebird and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
Ennio (15)
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
★★★★
THE life and work of legendary Italian composer Ennio Moriconne, who turned film music into a powerful art form, is finally being celebrated in this compelling documentary which only scratches the surface of this man’s genius.
You may not know his name, but you will recognise his unforgettable work: from Sergio Leone's Westerns — in particular A Fistful of Dollars — to The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, for which he finally won an Oscar in 2016, to name but a few.
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