
The deviser of unsettling public encounters is a world-class artist in a way that the other contenders - Laure Prouvost, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - are not The 2013 Turner prize shortlist is strangely unbalanced, but it also makes...
Pinter's The Hothouse and Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
There's intimacy and immediacy in this movie from the 73-year-old Bernardo Bertolucci: it's an engaging, if slight, two-hander about a troubled teenage boy, Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) who tells his mother he's going on a school skiing trip but...
Maybe Pasolini's playful fable of ideas is the great director's attempt to put a bomb under Italy's stagnant governing class Pasolini's Theorem - now revived nationally in cinemas as part of a retrospective - is bizarre, playful and mysterious, an...
A documentary about aspiring American ballet dancers has been fatally influenced by reality-TV feelgood values Bess Kargman's First Position is a blandly feelgood documentary about aspiring young ballet dancers. Kargman follows a handful of teens as...
Florence Waters reviews the first part of Andrew Graham-Dixon's new series on the art of Renaissance Flanders.
Chimamanda Adichie, Oliver Stone, AS Byatt on web harvests, and a Twitter-inspired opera.
An intimate portrait of the evolution of one of the world's most enduring rock bands.
Julian Barnes's novel Levels of Life; new film A Late Quartet with Christopher Walken.
Dancer Tamara Rojo; musician James Blake; The Place Beyond the Pines starring Ryan Gosling.