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Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders

4 Jan 2008

Exactly what it is about the films of Wim Wenders that tends to appeal to film lovers of all ages is difficult to pinpoint. Like his countryman Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wenders was born into the bankrupted GI Joe-colonised Germany at the end of WWII.

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

THRILLER/CRIME (15) 116min After years of producing dross such as the Vin Diesel vehicle Find Me Guilty and 1993 abomination Guilty as Sin, legendary New York based filmmaker Sidney Lumet returns to the sort of form he showed in his heyday. It…

Steve Earle

Steve Earle

4 Jan 2008

You’ll know where Steve Earle lives if you can picture the famous cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. Just up that New York street where Dylan huddled against the snow with Suzie Rotolo in 1962 is the apartment Earle shares with his wife, the beautiful…

The Glass Menagerie

Jemima Levick

4 Jan 2008

You’ve got to hand it to the Lyceum. They seemed so aware of the mood of their audience in programming The Wizard of Oz in the run-up to Christmas, a time when many people experience that longing for reunion with the family that runs through the play.

Opening Concert: Common Ground

Opening Concert: Common Ground

4 Jan 2008

CELTIC CONNECTIONS Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Wed 16 Jan Celtic Connections will launch this year with what artistic consultant Donald Shaw likens to a giant session. Common Ground will be led on stage by John McCusker, and will feature a host of…

Dine Around Edinburgh

Dine Around Edinburgh

4 Jan 2008

January and February are slow months for everyone, but particularly difficult for our poor friends in the restaurant trade. A broke, broken, bloated city does not make for great clientele, so in order to lure you back, some of Edinburgh’s fanciest…

Dirty Summer

Dirty Summer

(5 stars)4 Jan 2008

POST-PUNK Oran Mor, Glasgow, Sat 8 Dec Yoofs have always been a major driving force behind popular music, but with influences past and present perhaps more accessible than ever these days thanks to the all-pervasive internet, wide-eyed youngsters…

Preview 2008 - Sons & Daughters

4 Jan 2008

These days all it takes is a snappy debut, flashy photo-shoots and a healthy number of online ‘friends’ for a band to think they have it sussed. Because there are so many of them around, acts are promptly and callously dropped if they don’t make their…

Preview 2008 - Kelly Macdonald

4 Jan 2008

Kelly Macdonald caught the Coen brothers on the hop. Having convinced the casting director of the Coens’ new film, No Country For Old Men, that she could pull of an authentic West Texas accent, the 31-year-old Glaswegian actress was presented to the…

Travel - Festivals 2008

4 Jan 2008

Around Town There’s a lot going on in Liverpool this year; unsurprising, really, given that it’s the European Capital of Culture 2008. The celebrations begin with the last couple of weeks of 2007’s Turner Prize exhibition (Tate Liverpool, until Sun 13…

News Extra

4 Jan 2008

Birmingham gets a taste of Scotland’s Ice Factor this month following the construction of a 33-foot high, 50-ton ice wall in the city centre, promoting tourism activities north of the border. VisitScotland has been working with the Kinlochleven-based…

Preview 2008 - Gadgets and Gizmos

4 Jan 2008

From James Bond to your office colleagues, everyone loves gadgets. Technology is growing at such a fast pace that buying that new phone or MP3 player sometimes seems a bit of a gamble. You never know when the gadget you’ve just bought will be replaced…

Mistresses

Remote Control

4 Jan 2008

Brian Donaldson finds that amid the many new Beeb dramas, the best ones have a gaggle of ball-busting females After all the rough and ready excitement of the festive Doctor Who and Extras specials, what ticklish delights would the BBC lay before us…

Preview 2008 - Film

4 Jan 2008

I lost count of the number of times the death knell rang for the traditional Hollywood filmmaking model last year. The ongoing writers’ strike, the collapse of the star system (due to exorbitant actor salaries) and increasingly low box office returns…

Pop! What is it Good For?

4 Jan 2008

The end of pop music has been trumpeted loudly from the rooftops throughout its 50-year history. The death of the two Brians, Jones and Epstein, the final splitting of The Beatles and the soulless production line of the SAW Hit Factory are a few of the…

Richard T Kelly

4 Jan 2008

Richard T Kelly is laughing at the jibe that his debut novel is a cross between Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty. It’s a cutesy icebreaker and this editor and writer whose published works to date have…

Tokyoblu

Tokyoblu

4 Jan 2008

Although they’ve been pounding the Edinburgh scene for the best part of half a decade, gaining a large and faithful following in the process, it’s only now that Tokyoblu are starting to gain some of the respect and attention they deserve. Their…

Carol Rhodes

Carol Rhodes

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

Carol Rhodes’ meditative, repetitive approach to landscape painting could be linked to artists such as Friedrich, Corot, Monet or Cezanne, each in their own way sharing an obsession with the genre, though, as the artist Merlin James points out: ‘Rhodes…

Spooky Edinburgh

Burke and Hare-themed events

4 Jan 2008

‘Up the close and down the stair/But and ben wi’ Burke and Hare/Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief/Knox the boy who buys the beef...’ Everyone gets a bit rueful round about this time of year, don’t they? A lot of poring over old mistakes, a lot…

Preview 2008 - Books

4 Jan 2008

So, surely this year will mark a big new beginning when proper literature, you know, actual novels, replaces the ridiculously self-serving and endless charade that is the celebrity autobiography? Nah, not really. 2008 will witness little in the way of a…

Eat - Stereo

4 Jan 2008

The worlds of music and quality food shouldn’t be, on the face of it, ones which ever collide – think of the musician’s late night world of burgers and takeaway pizza, or even a simple liquid diet. But Stereo, the latest in a series of ventures from the…

Preview 2008 - Technology

4 Jan 2008

Technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that predicting the future with any accuracy is becoming increasingly tricky. As might be expected, media technology is set to become faster, more powerful, more efficient, cheaper, more portable and more…

Preview 2008 - Fashion

4 Jan 2008

Is it just me, or has it got dark in here? Spring/summer fashions usually burst out in bright colours, but this year most designers haven’t managed to shake the winter blues (and purples and greens). Klaxons, who led 2007’s tooth-jangling Technicolor…

4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days

4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

DRAMA (15) 113min The winner of last year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, writer-director Cristian Mungiu’s impressively acted 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days explores a long, dark night of the soul in late 1980s Romania, unfolding towards the end of Nicolae…

DVD Round-Up

4 Jan 2008

As Carly Simon sang, ‘we’re coming around again’. As this column marks its one-year anniversary, there are some great standalone DVDs hitting the shelves. 2008 is going to be a great year to rediscover the brilliance of the McCarthy-blacklisted US…

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