MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Timely celebration of women's global contribution to the art and craft of of film-making
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
WOMEN MAKE FILM is an episodic exploration of the craft of film-making following the cuts, pans, frames and tilts of some of history’s greatest films all directed by women.
It’s been made by director and producer Mark Cousins, who enjoyed considerable success with his previous anthologies The Story of Film in 2011 and A Story of Children and Film a few years later.
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