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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2016 Film round-up
Star columnists run through what has — and hasn’t —impressed them on the big screen in the last 12 months
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
ALAN FRANK
CELEBRATED Polish-Russian pioneer film-maker Dziga Vertov was impressively ahead of his time when, over 80 years ago, he stated: “Film drama is the opium of the people”.
That doesn’t just apply to mere “people.”
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