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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…

Cat Power

Cat Power - Jukebox

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

INDIE (Matador) No one does melancholy like Chan Marshall, and on the second of her legendary covers records she takes sadness to staggering new levels. Backed by the Dirty Delta Blues band, the Georgia-born singer/songwriter treats us to some…

Catriona McKay - Starfish

Catriona McKay - Starfish

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

FOLK (Glimster Records) Fresh from her triumph in winning the Instrumentalist of the Year award at the Scots Trad Music Awards in early December, harpist Catriona McKay’s debut solo album confirms her high standing among those in the harp world know.

Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg - The Plain Janes

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

DRAMA (Minx) The latest entry in the new Minx range captures almost every chick lit cliché. High school setting? Check. Geeky girls save the day? Check. And, of course, there’s a moody pretty boy for those raging hormones. And yet it’s not terrible…

Charlie Wilson's War

Charlie Wilson's War

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

REAL LIFE/DRAMA (15) 101min Directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Primary Colors) and starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, the chief virtue of Charlie Wilson’s War is a commendably tight script by Aaron Sorkin. The West Wing’s creator provides…

Chase A Crooked Shadow

Chase A Crooked Shadow

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

THRILLER (U) 84min (Optimum DVD retail) Directed by Michael Anderson, a man whose eclectic CV incorporates The Dam Busters and Logan’s Run, this low-key, high-concept thriller works through its original central premise with some solid character…

Che Guevara As You Have Never Seen Him Before

Che Guevara As You Have Never Seen Him Before

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

DOCUMENTARY (E) 50min (Network retail) There’s a certain duplicity to the title of this Cuban effort from Manuel Perez Paredes. The story it tells of the life of the great Argentinean revolutionary, who was given Cuban nationality for his immense…

Damian Lazarus

Damian Lazarus

4 Jan 2008

Slam’s Return to Mono night weighs in with a guest slot from Damian Lazarus in the intimate surrounds of the Subbie. Lazarus helped set up both City Rockers and Crosstown Rebels and describes his sound as ‘twisted, raw, deep underground techno, house…

Dan In Real Life

Dan In Real Life

(2 stars)4 Jan 2008

COMEDY/ROMANCE (PG) 98min Written and directed by Peter Hedges (About a Boy, Pieces of April), Dan in Real Life is firmly rooted in warm, middle-class family values and every bit as predictable and inoffensive as a TV sitcom. It’s the story of Dan…

Dance Base

Dance Base & Dance House

4 Jan 2008

DANCE CLASSES There was a time when dance classes meant scraped back buns, stern ballet teachers and splinters from the church hall floor. Not anymore. At the sleek studios of Edinburgh’s Dance Base, there’s not a loose plank in sight, and enjoyment…

Doggles

Dave Evans - Coolhunting

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

CULT DESIGN Current adverts for DVD box sets of flashy dross such as The OC and Friends claim that these shows are ‘funny, sexy, cool’. But what, then, does it mean to be cool? The definitions have certainly changed down the years with archetypal…

Desmond Morris - The Naked Man

Desmond Morris - The Naked Man

(1 star)4 Jan 2008

FACTUAL (Jonathan Cape) After the international success of 2004’s The Naked Woman, it now seems fitting for Desmond Morris (zoologist and author of best-seller The Naked Ape) to turn his attention to the male frame. However, he would have been…

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…

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…

El Dog

El Dog

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

ROCK Oran Mor, Glasgow, Wed 12 Dec Being named after family friends Robert Bell and Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile may have helped engender El Dog singer Bob (Robert Paul) Rafferty’s interest in making music. Certainly, though, the work of the…

Exposure - Tattie Toes

Exposure - Tattie Toes

4 Jan 2008

Tomorrow’s music today. This issue: Tattie Toes Blending avant-garde jazz, world, folk and experimental rock influences to mind-bending effect, Glasgow quartet Tattie Toes (vocalist Nerea Bello, violinist Rafe Fitzpatrick, drummer and accordionist…

Fear Is The Key

Fear Is The Key

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

THRILLER 15 100min (Optimum DVD retail) A rarely-seen cult classic from 1972, this Alistair MacLean adaptation comes loaded with points of interest. Directed by Michael Tuchner (Villain, the big-screen version of The Likely Lads), soundtracked with…

Flook and friends

Flook and friends

4 Jan 2008

Determined to give punters what they want without appealing to anyone’s vanity, Celtic Connections brings back acts the punters demand which means the musicians feel compelled to find new ways to challenge themselves and their audiences. One shining…

Gay For Johnny Depp - The Politics of Cruelty

Gay For Johnny Depp - The Politics of Cruelty

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

ROCK (Captains of Industry) There’s more to Gay for Johnny Depp (you would though, wouldn’t you?) than just a magnificent moniker. The Brooklyn-based foursome are also incredibly adept at music-making, as proven by this ferocious debut which…

Gillespie, Kidd and Coia: Architecture 1956–1987

4 Jan 2008

A long overdue exhibition of the Scottish Modernist masters, this is the first major retrospective of the work of one of the UK’s most distinguished architecture practices. Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s imaginative approach to architecture resulted in a wide…

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

4 Jan 2008

Allan Stewart dons his drag once again for another rambunctious King’s panto. This time, in addition to the flaxen haired lass with the grizzly companions, there are clowns, acrobats and trapeze artists. King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, until Sun 20 Jan.

Grant Campbell - Beyond Below

Grant Campbell - Beyond Below

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

COUNTRY BLUES (Crooked Mouth) Comparisons to the gravelly, tortured hymns of Micah P Hinson and latter-day Springsteen are upheld in the Scottish singer-songwriter’s second low-key release, Campbell’s breed of Americana delivering such poetry…

Gwilym Simcock - Perception

Gwilym Simcock - Perception

4 Jan 2008

JAZZ Perception (Basho Records) Simcock’s flowing pianism and fertile musical imagination are constantly to the fore in a selection of his own impressive compositions on this much-anticipated and highly accomplished debut album, rounded out by…

Haight Ashbury

Haight Ashbury

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

PSYCHEDELIC POP Out to Play @ Brel, Glasgow, Thu 29 Nov Naming your band after the San Franciscan centre of all things hippie hardly leaves a lot to the imagination as a reference point, so the fact that Haight Ashbury resemble the sort of folks…

Hula Hoopla

Hula Hoopla

4 Jan 2008

OK, we’ve officially found the best ever way to rediscover your waist in the new year. Dance Base’s weekly Hula Hoopla classes, which start on Monday 7 January and run into March, not only tone your hips and backside back into shape, but allow you the…

Introducing . . . Ballers Social Club

4 Jan 2008

The best new nights in town. This month: Ballers Social Club Residents Hudson Mohawke (Warp) and Rustie (Stuff Records, Wireblock, Dress 2 Sweat). Guests Pavan (pictured) and Rigas D (Flogsta Danshall) guest for this Art School debut. Music…

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