1000 films to see before you dieMoviesFilms beginning with VLes Valseuses
(Bertrand Blier, 1974)
Gérard Dépardieu and Patrick Dewaere play two criminals and drifters who spend their time robbing, harassing, bothering women and somehow getting away with it - just. Jeanne Moreau is the sensuous older woman who briefly hooks up with them. Blier's view of devil-may-care male sexual adventurism is a little self-congratulatory and leaves a strange taste in the mouth now, but it's a movie with gusto. Read More...
The ObserverGreeceOxford museum aims to ‘set the record straight’ about the discovery of Knossos Palace in Crete
Sir Arthur Evans, the renowned English archaeologist, stands guilty of pouring concrete into what he claimed was the lost palace of Knossos on Crete, of spinning the story of the Labyrinth, and of cutting out the local man who first discovered the famous site.
Yet today he is widely admired in Greece, by contrast with Lord Elgin, the Scottish nobleman whose seizure of part of the Parthenon’s marble frieze has long branded him an enemy of Greek culture. Read More...
Iggy PopAt 68, the punk icon has recorded a new album with the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman. In a frank conversation, the pair discuss sex, death and David Bowie
Who would have guessed, when David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were reinventing rock’n’roll in their own image, that it would be the guy rolling around in broken glass bare chested who’d be the last one standing?
Yet here he is, stalking into a New York hotel suite, fresh from practising serene Chinese exercise Qigong: grizzled beard, bleached hair, skin of melted leather. Read More...