To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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MATTHEW SMITH picks out four films from the work of the late great Terence Davies
MASTERFUL: A still from Distant Voices, Still Lives; Terence Davies
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
TERENCE DAVIES, who has died at the age of 77, was a key figure in British and European cinema.
The Liverpool-born director extended the formal possibilities of film and had a unique capacity for depicting memory and personal history.
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