Tag: Cornerhouse

Art Party: creativity under threat?

“Art is part of our DNA,” says Jeremy Deller, while sculptor Richard Wentworth believes that “without art people won’t love each other, they won’t even hold hands”. They’re just two of the contemporary artists...

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Monty Python Live (Mostly)

In the row in front is a studious looking teenager sandwiched between middle-aged mum and dad. At every mention of penis, venereal disease and the Chinese in songs played to fill time while we wait for transmission from...

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A Field in England

In his own introduction to the film, director Ben Wheatley describes A Field in England as “pretty fucking mental”. For all the right reasons, that’s exactly what it is. Some of his previous work, such as Sightseers...

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The Deep

In March 1984, the Hellisey VE 503 fishing trawler capsized off the south coast of Iceland, leaving only one man, ‘Gulli’ Fridthórsson to survive the tragedy. Baltasar Kormakur’s film, The Deep (now showing at...

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The World’s End

I saw that video recently with Dustin Hoffman crying over how Tootsie made him realise that women who aren’t deemed beautiful (by him and thus by everyone) are sometimes more interesting to talk to. He was saying that, before...

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