I'm not sure if Frankie Thompson is the universal cure for human suffering or its primary cause, but her new show HORRIBLE THINGS is one of the funniest hours I've ever spent in a theatre. She's a genius. Don't miss it. WIP at @camdenpt.bsky.social tonight & tomorrow: cptheatre.co.uk/whatson/Fran...
Wes Anderson's Archive at the Design Museum is an enchanting tribute to human imagination, packed with exquisite work by hundreds of artists. As well as iconic costumes & models there's huge joy in finding book covers, menus etc. that you may have missed on screen: designmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Frankie Thompson presents Frankie Thompson - Horrible Things (Works in Regress) at Camden People's Theatre
Really looking forward to seeing this for the first time at BFI Southbank, my spiritual home. Booking is now open for Kazuo Ishiguro's season of great films set on trains: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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François Ozon's haunting, timely adaptation of L'ETRANGER is a masterclass in directing. The first half is almost silent, told in striking, sensual imagery, the second driven by two dramatic set pieces. Benjamin Voisin is a charismatic, unsettling Meursault and Rebecca Marder a heartbreaking Marie.
Anya Reiss is one of our best playwrights: funny, fierce & ruthless, propelled by love & rage. Her new version of A Doll's House at the Almeida is scalpel sharp & pindrop tense, wrenching the play into the present, almost to the hour, with Romola Garai as a glorious, dangerous Nora.
One of my favourite novels last year, interweaving the lives of a documentary film-maker, whom we meet smuggling a wolf cub out of the Chernobyl forest, and a young activist whose work inspires constitutional change. A climate story, a nature story and a love story that offers hope in fearful times.
Beautiful, perfectly parodic children’s book covers from The Royal Tenenbaums, each illustrated by a different artist (including Wes Anderson’s wife on the far right). Also, check the second from left: did Wes Anderson inspire Weapons?!
Welcome back to the brilliant @theyardtheatre.bsky.social, returning at twice the size & twice the attitude with a breathtaking new season including In Bed With My Brother's Philosophy Of The World, Malmö Stadsteater’s The World Is Full Of Married Men & Ian McKellen's Lear: www.theyardtheatre.co.uk
Jonathan Wakeham
If you can't get to the real seaside this Easter, Seurat and the Sea at the Courtauld Gallery is a holiday in 26 paintings. I found it very moving: Seurat sold only 3 pictures in his lifetime before dying at just 31, making these shimmering summertime seascapes feel as fragile as they are beautiful.
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Book your tickets for the Rome Express, the grand-daddy of all train films, at the BFI Southbank on 21st July. Introduced by one of the world's greatest writers.
(Kazuo Ishiguro, I mean. I will also be speaking.)
Out today! The paperback edition of When There Are Wolves Again 🪶🦫🌱🐾🐺
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Alt: Buckaroo Banzai end credits where they literally get the band back together.
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Alt: Machael Paré, a young, clean-shaved white man with a strong jawline. He's wearing a sleeveless black t shirt and almost-pompadour style haircut. He'sa brunette. His eyes are closed as he sings earnestly into a microphone, as Eddie Wilson, from Eddie and the Cruisers (1983).
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Alt: The Misfits, a punk/metal band who rivaled from Jem and the Holograms (opening sequence). The three white women have big bright hair, big geometric earrings, bright eyeshadow and colored streaks on their faces.
