MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Film round-up: September 26, 2024
Decline and fall of the US empire, rehab in Orkney, the younger self, and lone wolves
(L) Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun; (R) Shia LaBeouf in Megalopolis
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Megalopolis (15)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
★★
ONE of the greatest film-makers of our time, Francis Ford Coppola returns with his most ambitious passion project: a Roman epic, which was at least 40 years in the making, and which proves to be a glorious, baffling mess of visuals and ideas.
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