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The Class: To Sir, with love

The Class: To Sir, with love

19 Feb 2009

Laurent Cantet’s Palme D’Or winner The Class is the best film ever made about education. Paul Dale explains why every MSP should be made to watch it

Jason Donald

Choke Chain - Jason Donald

19 Feb 2009

‘I found it difficult torturing an eight-year-old boy, but I knew I had to.’ The couple at the table next to Jason Donald shoot him a sideways glance over the top of their coffee cups. He definitely doesn’t seem like the torturing kind. He carries on…

Scottish Opera - Five:15

Scottish Opera - Five:15

19 Feb 2009

As a savvy soul once surmised, ‘the more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.’ Just take the rise and rise of Scottish Opera. While the opera cynic waxed lyrical about the need to redefine the remit for a noughties audience, there they were setting…

Dorothy

Glasgow Film Festival: FrightFest

19 Feb 2009

There’s something primal about being scared, that jolt of adrenaline that makes us feel alive. Going back to the monsters of Greek and Roman mythology to scary stories told round the campfire, the horror genre is one of the oldest recorded forms of…

Gaza

Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace

19 Feb 2009

With the strikes on Gaza receiving near blanket coverage across all media, it’s been impossible to ignore the situation in Israel and Palestine recently. Inevitably, and perhaps understandably, when communicating the realities of life in a war zone…

Hot Leg

New Bands: The audacity of hype

19 Feb 2009

It’s not a shock to see a write-up for a new band, barely a handful of singles old, lauded as the best new band this century. But for every Arctic Monkeys there’s scores of Menswears, Towers of Londons and Mumm-Ras. Bands are expected to show up fully…

Little Boots

Cabaret Voltaire The Fourth Birthday: Life’s a cabaret

19 Feb 2009

For four years now, Cabaret Voltaire has been the hard act which every other club in Edinburgh has had to follow. The hard work and determination of owner Sarah David accounts for much of this success, although this year we decided to let some of her…

The Phantom Band

The Phantom Band

19 Feb 2009

The Phantom Band are a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. OK, they’re not really, they’re just six guys living in Glasgow making music, but as their ephemeral name suggests there is something shadowy and unfathomable about both the…

Young Fathers

New Bands

19 Feb 2009

Young Fathers Although those in the neighbourhood know that Scottish hip hop has been active for many years now, it’s still the kind of unlikely concept which can make the national media gasp, sit up and scratch their head. Take the good tidings that…

Richard Milward: Tall tale

Richard Milward: Tall tale

19 Feb 2009

Bedraggled old residential tower blocks are gradually being demolished in towns and cities across the UK. Yet, young Middlesbrough author Richard Milward has reversed the trend in his own small way, by erecting a sky-high tale from a solid stack of…

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

19 Feb 2009

All of us know couples to whom argument is salt and pepper to the relationship. There is indeed plenty of precedent in the theatre for work centring on the dysfunctional marriage; in the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe, this was exemplified by James Brally’s Life…

Daniel Depp

Daniel Depp - Loser’s Town

(2 stars)19 Feb 2009

(Simon & Schuster) CRIME DRAMA Daniel Depp’s claim to fame to date is being the half-brother of movie star Johnny and co-writing The Brave, which was nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or prize at Cannes in 1997. As a former Hollywood…

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

19 Feb 2009

Bruce Campbell is the unrepentant king of the Bs. He burst onto the world of underground cinema with the ultimate video nasty, The Evil Dead, its two sequels, and a string of unacknowledged classics such as Maniac Cop, Crimewave, Man With the Screaming…

Al Pitcher

Al Pitcher - Phil Kay My Comedy Hero

19 Feb 2009

Al Pitcher: 'Have you ever seen a comedian try to capture lightning in a bottle? Go and see Phil Kay. I first saw him at the Red Rose Comedy Club in London. I hadn’t tried comedy at the time and was greeted by the strange pre-show sight of a bearded and…

Colin Steele

Colin Steele - Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

19 Feb 2009

It was one of the most historic recording sessions in jazz. On 2 March 1959, Miles Davis took a group of musicians that included John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, both Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb into Columbia’s 30th…

Che: Part Two

Che: Part Two

(4 stars)19 Feb 2009

WAR/BIOPIC (15) 127min Che Guevara’s final fatal campaign in Bolivia gets bold and bleak treatment in the second part of Steven Soderbergh’s extraordinary bio-historical epic about the ultimate revolutionary. It’s 1967 and Guevara (Benecio…

Gran Torino

Gran Torino

(4 stars)19 Feb 2009

(15) 116min DRAMA/THRILLER Clint Eastwood attempts a light-hearted reproach to some of the more reactionary values of his previous films in this, his acting swansong. Recently bereaved Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) lives in a Michigan…

Year of the Horse

Year of the Horse

19 Feb 2009

PREVIEW EXPERIMENTAL WORK In January 2007, Resonance FM called up Tam Dean Burn, who produced occasional live plays for them, looking for a new piece. He promised them he’d think about it, then picked up a newspaper. Front page news was the death…

Defender of the Faith

Defender of the Faith

(3 stars)19 Feb 2009

NATURALISTIC DRAMA The problems inherent in Andy Arnold’s new production are almost all in the writing. Which is strange, because Stuart Carolan’s debut script, written in 2004, won awards and a transfer to Broadway on its first run. It’s not that…

The Mystery of Irma Vep

The Mystery of Irma Vep

19 Feb 2009

PREVIEW GOTHIC COMEDY For those of us whose childhood was steeped in black and white horror films of the 1940s and 50s, the Lyceum’s latest production looks a treat. Charles Ludlam’s camp epic presents a pastiche of every nostalgic device of the…

Tiffin Rooms

Tiffin Rooms

19 Feb 2009

Glasgow’s original curry king, Balbir Singh Sumal opened the Ashoka in 1973, later selling to colleague Charan Gill who went on to build the Harlequin Restaurant Group while crediting Balbir as his mentor. Balbir made a significant return to the scene…

Flash of Genius

Glasgow Film Festival: Flash of Genius

19 Feb 2009

As those old seat belt safety films (‘clunk click every trip’) fronted by Sir Jimmy Saville taught us – it’s difficult to make car safety stimulating. Flash of Genius, a David and Goliath style story based on the true story of university professor and…

Lazy Town Live!

LazyTown Live!

19 Feb 2009

If you ever bump into Magnus Scheving in the street, one thing’s for certain – he won’t snub you. As the creator, producer and star of TV sensation, LazyTown, Scheving knows a certain amount of responsibility comes with the territory. He also remembers…

Glasgow Roller Girls

Women-only roller derby: Glasgow Roller Girls

19 Feb 2009

Mistress Malicious meets me, as arranged, in the foyer of the sports centre. She’s easy to spot: she’s tall and elegant, with tattoos and bright scarlet hair. Oh, and she’s on rollerskates. I’m here to train with the Glasgow Rollergirls and learn…

Jimmy Robert: Grey Flannel Suits Any Man

Jimmy Robert: Grey Flannel Suits Any Man

19 Feb 2009

In an adaptation of Yoko Ono’s ‘Cut Piece’ for his show Figure de Style at London’s Cubitt Gallery last year, Jimmy Robert bound his torso in strips of tape, which were then ripped off by members of the audience. The performance didn’t stray too far…

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