Sometime in January 2003, walking along Dalston Lane in Hackney, east London, I found it lined with posters bearing the simple message "15".
The 21st Leeds International Film Festival aims to give space to the films and documentaries that are often denied mainstream screenings.
Jean Genet (1910 – 1986) is perhaps best remembered for his extraordinary series of novels which fused fact, fiction and fantasy in a daring and often censored celebration of criminality and homosexuality.
Of all the attempts to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolishment of the slave trade, the Theatre Royal’s current production of Jean Genet’s The Blacks is by far the most successful.
This German film is a Second World War movie with a difference. It tells the tale of Solly Sorowitsch, a Jewish forger who is captured by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp, where he is caught up in a scheme to create fake Allied banknotes.
This major new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum looks at how posters have been used through the ages to propagandise for and against war.
The suppressed side of musical life under the Nazis is brilliantly brought to life in this new recording. Many musicians persecuted because of their ethnic origins or modernist style were able to escape abroad. But the less fortunate were culturally silenced and then permanently silenced in the death camps.
Paul Haggis, Brian De Palma, Robert Redford, John Cusack – what’s the link? Yes, they are all on the Hollywood A-list, but there’s another, more political, connection.
Luchino Visconti is best known for his film The Leopard, about Sicily amid the struggle for Italian unification.
The Lives Of Others tells the story of Wiesler, a member of East Germany’s secret police assigned to spy on Georg, a playwright suspected of being critical of the Communist state.
The saxophonist Gilad Atzmon is part of a new wave of jazz artists creating exciting music in Britain. His new album Refuge is a tour de force – a work of beauty, subtlety and depth.
The tate Britain’s latest blockbuster exhibition showcases the work of the Victorian artist John Everett Millais. He is most famous for his founding role in the innovative and rebellious Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. But Millais is also well known for subsequently selling out and painting sentimental pictures for commercial gain.
