WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Italian job well done in Bari
RITA DI SANTO reports on the best of the city's international film festival
Pure Hearts
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
DEEP in the hustle and bustle of the port of Bari in southern Italy beats a cosmopolitan heart and at its centre is the Bari international film festival BIFEST, now in its ninth year.
This time round, BIFEST featured the work of directors of the calibre of Gianni Amelio, Marco Bellocchio and Ferzan Ozpetek, alongside rising talents such as Vincenzo Marra, Paolo Sassanelli, Roberta Torre and Roberto De Paolis.
Special events included a concert paying homage to Alberto Trovajoli, one of the great Italian film composers, a restored version of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris and a retrospective on maverick director Marco Ferreri.
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