Since its inception in 1946, the Cannes Film Festival has embraced the high-brow and the high-glam - new cinema from Iran or China and red carpet parades from Madonna or Nicole Kidman.
Nineteen-year-old Luisa McKenzie has failed her Scottish Highers and finds herself back at primary school - working as a teaching assistant, a role she never envisaged or wanted.
In About Stoppard, Jim Hunter charts the work of one of Britain's leading playwrights. His survey includes a brief biography, a chapter locating Tom Stoppard in his context, and interviews both with S
'The astonishing life of the screen legend from a man who knew her for twenty years.' Tatler'This biography is stunning . a very readable and well-crafted biography.' Independent'An irresistible portr
When Daniel Kalder, acclaimed author of Lost Cosmonaut, descended into the sewers of Moscow in pursuit of the mythical lost city of tramps, he didn't realise that he was embarking on a bizarre, year-l
But all too soon the ghosts of relationships past begin to interfere with the here and now. A comedy about love, loss and laminating machines, My Romantic History premiered at the Traverse Theatre,
A woman - gaunt and ill, haggard after giving birth eight times - faces death. What was life? What was love? What else could have been? Full of mordant, bitter humour, this is a passionate threnody fr
1905, Russia is at a turning point. Zakhar Bardin is from the landowning class, but is now the uneasy owner of a factory. His managing director is determined to face down militant workers on a point o
A world on the brink of catastrophe. A two-thousand-year-old mystery. A lost gospel. A young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revoluti
From Ben Jonson's The Alchemist to the anonymous A Yorkshire Tragedy, from Thomas Dekker's The Shoemakers' Holiday to John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, this essential guide provides clear and livel
The 1970s were the Golden Age for American film-making, with the emergence of such talents as Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, De Palma, Altman, and Malick. Ryan Gilbey looks afresh at the remarka
Love it or loathe it, few would disagree that the music of Harrison Birtwistle stands amongst the most assured, original and challenging music ever to have been produced by a British composer.
In his version of Racine's masterpiece of tragic infatuation, Ted Hughes replaces the French dramatist's alexandrines with a lean, high-tension English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passi
Without text, expressing himself directly through a brilliant sequence of two hundred drawings, the artist Klimowski has conjured up a dream narrative which is as gripping as any thriller, a black mov
