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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…

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…

5 Reasons To Go See - Nobody

4 Jan 2008

1 Indulge your musical whims indoors instead It’s January, you’re skint, it’s cold outside and there are hardly any decent bands playing at this time of year anyway (the ones worth seeing we’ve told you about elsewhere in the mag). You got some gift…

A Successful Man

A Successful Man

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

DRAMA (12A) 104min (Network DVD retail) Along with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Strawberry and Chocolate, The Twelve Chairs), Humberto Solás is one of the most prominent of the filmmakers to emerge from Castro’s Cuba, and this film from the 1980s is…

Adrian Crowley - Long Distance Swimmer

Adrian Crowley - Long Distance Swimmer

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

FOLK (Tin Angel) Adrian Crowley hasn’t received the level of attention bestowed on fellow Dublin troubadour Fionn Regan, but his sonorous blend of folk and blues deserves its spotlight. The content and style of this fourth album perhaps don’t reach…

Alexander Ahndoril - The Director

Alexander Ahndoril - The Director

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

NOVELISED PORTRAIT (Portobello Books) This novel portrait of an artist captures the late, great Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman at a crucial moment in his life, in 1961 when he was making the second film in his celebrated faith trilogy, Winter Light.

Also Published - 5 Diet Books

4 Jan 2008

Theresa Cheung - The Lemon Juice Diet It’s the big ingredient in the Hollywood slimmer’s scran these days, replacing the various recent dieting fads of coconut, pineapple and cabbage soup. Vermillion . Marisa Peer - You Can Be Thin This one is aimed…

Also Released - Music

4 Jan 2008

Jimi Sensational Shandrix Experience Electric Landlady (Brechin All Records) A fivesome of unwieldy party animals who look like an explosion in the basement underneath a music store and a fancy dress shop who rather surprisingly knock out a respectable…

Anthea Hamilton and Thomas Kratz

Anthea Hamilton and Thomas Kratz

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

INSTALLED PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES Mary Mary, Glasgow, until 26 Jan There is a history of sexed-up artistic collaborations in 20th century art, a long line of cosy twosomes that come together for occasional aesthetic satisfaction. The work on show by…

Anthony Reynolds - British Ballads

Anthony Reynolds - British Ballads

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

ROCK (Spinney) Being big in France with his former band Jack may have kept him warm at nights, but it seems that Anthony Reynolds could now care less about having anything remotely like a hit. Creating records that smell of ‘abandoned cathedrals…

Aonghas Grant - The Hills of Glengarry

Aonghas Grant - The Hills of Glengarry

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

FOLK (Shoogle Records) Left-handed fiddle maestro Aonghas Grant can’t be accused of saturating the market with recordings – this disc is his first since the 1977, and that album was his only previous effort. Nonetheless, he has built a…

Beloved

Beloved

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

DRAMA (12A) 100min (Network DVD retail) After her wealthy slave-trading father’s death, Amada (Eslinda Núñez) wiles away her time on his estate, living with her blind mother and her unfaithful husband. Clearly she wants and deserves more from…

Bride Of Re-Animator

Bride Of Re-Animator

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

HORROR (18) 92min (Tartan rental/retail) Quite whether Brian Yuzna’s sequel to the black comic gorefest that was Re-Animator carries all the earlier film’s exuberant ickiness is a moot point, but there is, once again, a certain gusto which propels…

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

INDIE (Rough Trade) British Sea Power have never been known for their traditional approach to music-making – plastic birds, fake foliage and a ten foot bear have come into the equation at various points – so it comes as no surprise that third effort…

Brodsky Quartet

Brodsky Quartet

4 Jan 2008

The internationally renowned Brodsky Quartet, who unfortunately had to postpone their performance as part of Edinburgh’s New Town Concerts series in November, are now happily rescheduled at the Queen’s Hall. In a wide-ranging programme that is typical…

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…

Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 & 2

Camilla D’errico & Joshua Dysart - Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 & 2

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

TEEN (Titan) I really wanted to hate this. I was hoping for a cheesy, corporate celebrity tie-in scamming money out of a willing fanbase. Sadly, it’s a stunningly-drawn, intelligent, jet-black study of adolescent isolation. Dammit. Hana is a…

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…

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