Variety

Tragicomedy ‘Black Money for White Nights’ Boarded by Cercamon Ahead of Premiere at Karlovy Vary (EXCLUSIVE)

Cercamon has picked up sales agency duties on tragicomedy “Black Money for White Nights,” which has its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Crystal Globe Competition. The Bulgaria-Greece co-production is directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, and written by Grozeva, Valchanov and Decho Taralezhkov. Marina, 65, a maternity nurse, and […]

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The Guardian Culture

‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century

At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonisers scarred a landscape, and a communityVisiting the Namibian port town of Lüderitz in late 2024, I came across a small museum run by descendants of German settlers. Alongside imperial German flags and memorabilia, it displayed artefacts of the Herero tribe that had been recovered from nearby Shark Island. What w

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Variety

Switzerland’s Sister Distribution Boards ‘The Indies’ From ‘They Will Be Dust’ Producers: ’It’s Not Character-Driven but Image-Driven’ (EXCLUSIVE)

After serving as a minority partner to Spain’s Lastor Media on the Toronto-winning Spanish pic “They Will Be Dust,” established Swiss banner Alina Film is majority-producing with Lastor the period road movie “The Indies,” (“Les Indes”) which will be sneak-peeked as a work in progress at ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, running June 9-11. […]

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Hollywood Reporter

“It Was All Greek to Me”: Why Producer Miranda Bailey Went Int’l to Back an Indie Film From Greece

The 'Swiss Army Man' producer just couldn't say no to 'The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes,' the genre-bending feature directorial debut of Thanasis Neofotistos, which just premiered at SXSW London.

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The Guardian Culture

Zoh Amba: Eyes Full review – raw, rugged country rock also has real tenderness

(Matador)Better known as a formidable free jazz saxophonist, these thrashing songs about the artist’s Tennessee childhood home share a similar genre-pushing intensityOn opening track OCD, Zoh Amba stops a twinkling, rootsy guitar melody and starts over, searching for the right way to tell the story of a boy diagnosed with “dreamin’ all the time”. Amba lands on a queasy combination of empathy and conspiracy (“said that mind needs fixin’ / gunna end up like everybody”), churned up by thrashing, vi

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The Guardian Culture

I just inhaled 2.4bn year old oxygen in Tasmania. Now I’m part of an exhibition until I die

In Mona’s new permanent installation, visitors can breathe air so pure it ‘has not been touched by any being before you’More than 2bn years ago, during the Paleoproterozoic era, the Earth’s atmosphere began to fill with free oxygen, enabling the rise of aerobic life and, ultimately, humans. It’s known as the Great Oxidation Event, and deep in the subterranean belly of the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, a new artwork offers visitors the chance to inhale oxygen that’s been trapped i

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The Guardian Culture

Gintė Preisaitė: Instruments of Forgetting and the Singing Bone review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

(Felt)From birdsong to pool balls, this Lithuanian musician – a graduate of Copenhagen’s buzzy Rhythmic Music Conservatory – mixes beguiling found sounds into left-field pop and modern classicalCopenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory has become associated with a specific gauzy, esoteric sound, which draws on, and reshapes, classical instrumentation and pop songwriting. Think ML Buch, Astrid Sonne and Erika de Casier, all of whom have graduated from the institution since 2019. Following in their

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The Guardian Culture

Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation

The movie adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau, is released this month. Here, its director and crew explain why they relocated the film to a post-industrial mining town – and refused to make it in EnglishThe one-woman play Iphigenia in Splott was first performed in 2015. Eleven years on, Gary Owen’s reworking of Greek tragedy, transplanted to working-class Splott in Cardiff, has earned its place as a modern classic. It reimagines the mythological heroine I

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The Guardian Culture

Alice and Steve to Proud: the seven best shows to stream this week

Nicola Walker is a furious mother who decimates her best mate’s life after he sleeps with her daughter in an excruciating wrongcom. Plus, the LGBTQ+ adoption drama that has made wavesThere’s a brilliantly cringe take on intergenerational romance in this comedy starring Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement as the titular middle-aged best friends. Their relationship is shattered when Steve accidentally falls for Alice’s 26-year-old daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith). Alice and Steve (created by Sex

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The Guardian Culture

The Children by Melissa Albert review – intriguing fairytale of creativity’s dangers

In her first novel for adults, the YA author explores the dark side of writers who fictionalise their children’s livesChildren’s writers are sometimes cruel, and often damaged. And, as AS Byatt put it crisply when talking about her 2009 novel The Children’s Book: “Writing children’s books isn’t good for the writer’s own children.” Think of Christopher Milne, raging at having been Christopher Robin; Vivian Burnett, dragging Little Lord Fauntleroy behind him; Alastair Grahame, lying down on train

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The Guardian Culture

Hourglass album review – Simone Dinnerstein gives Glass room to breathe

Dinnerstein/Baroklyn(Naïve)With a refreshingly organic approach, the US pianist and her string ensemble revitalise the modern minimalist master’s score for The Hours and his Tirol ConcertoGetting ahead of next year’s 90th birthday celebrations, American pianist Simone Dinnerstein presents two works by Philip Glass, performing alongside her own string ensemble. Baroklyn – the name conflates her home borough of Brooklyn and the baroque sensibilities of JS Bach – take a far-from-mechanical approach

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The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: Emilia Clarke’s exciting cold war drama

The star continues to flex her Russian as Bea goes undercover in Ponies. Plus: how will the Iran war impact our summer holidays abroad? Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky AtlanticEmilia Clarke learned Russian for this exciting cold war comedy drama (“I did Dothraki, I know what I’m doing!”) and she continues to flex her impressive skills as US spy Bea. She prepares to go on a date with a KGB agent to strengthen her cover, and gets some tips from Twila. Will she pull it off? Meanwhile, Twi

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Variety

Phoebe Bridgers Turns Madison Square Garden Into Her Living Room With Intimate, Phone-Free Show Featuring Eight New Songs: Concert Review

“It’s weird not having a phone, isn’t it?” said Phoebe Bridgers to the 18,000-or so strong audience who’d willingly had their phones locked up for Thursday night’s special acoustic concert at Madison Square Garden. “I love it. I appreciate you allowing this to be an internet-free zone.” She added with a smile, “And if any […]

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Variety

Taylor Swift’s ‘Toy Story 5’ Song ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ Debuts on Digital Services

Jessie and her owner are reunited, in the apparent scenario laid out in Taylor Swift’s new “Toy Story 5” song, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” which debuted on digital services Thursday night. Also reunited (and it feels so good): Taylor Swift and country music — as promised by Disney when they first helped Swift […]

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The Guardian Culture

‘I knew it was over for us’: the bands who got left behind when punk exploded

Fifty years ago this week, the Sex Pistols played their first Manchester gig – and upended pop culture. But what was 1976 really like before punk arrived? From swing bands to ‘spaghetti rock’, we discover a lost historyIn January 1976, the cover of the NME didn’t feature an artist, but a photo of a room damaged by an IRA bomb: there had been a string of terrorist attacks in London the previous year. The headline: “Is rock’n’roll ready for 1976 … Is 1976 ready for rock’n’roll?”In the accompanying

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The Guardian Culture

Lizzo: Bitch review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Atlantic)After scrapping an album and starting anew, Lizzo still sounds lost amid these weak genre-hopping songs. Perhaps the zeitgeist has simply left her behindJust over a year ago, Lizzo appeared on Saturday Night Live, announcing a new album called Love in Real Life in grandstanding style. Wielding an electric guitar, clad in a Trump-baiting T-shirt that read Tariffied, she performed its title track and two other new songs, Still Bad and Don’t Make Me Love U. As with her appearance earlier

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Hollywood Reporter

Claire Foy Sings “Someone Like You” With a Mic-Grabbing Audience Member at SXSW London

London-based pop culture presenter Sugapuff commandeered the mic at Foy's keynote Q&A to serenade her with the Adele hit — then convinced her to join in.

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Hollywood Reporter

Thailand Launches Bangkok International Content Market in Bid to Become “Content Hub of Asia”

The Creative Economy Agency's inaugural three-day market, running July 20-22 in the Thai capital, will court more than 80 global investors and streamers around film, series and animation deals.

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Hollywood Reporter

SAG-AFTRA Ratifies Four-Year Deal With Studios and Streamers

The performers’ union greenlit a contract that merges previously separate pension plans and institutes new safeguards for generative AI.

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Variety

SAG-AFTRA Members Approve Four-Year Deal With AI Terms and Pension Merger

SAG-AFTRA members have ratified a four-year contract with the major studios, which includes new provisions on synthetic actors and a merger of the union’s two pension funds. Of those who cast ballots, 91.4% voted in favor of the contract and 8.6% were opposed. Turnout was 19.3% of eligible members. The contract allows producers to use […]

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