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After tailing through Utah in January, Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival arrives in London in just over a month, with Picturehouse Central playing host to UK and European premieres. Opening the season on 1st June will be Beatriz at Dinner, a dramedy of errors starring Salma Hayek as the eponymous Beatriz.
The Official video for Elder Island - Golden. Produced by the band themselves. Keep an eye out for the "Seeds in Sand" EP available on vinyl soon.
Based on the bet-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude.
King of bathos, sarcasm and awkward BBC Breakfast interviews, Father John Misty set out on his European tour last week, previewing a handful of unreleased songs from his forthcoming album Pure Comedy.
The singer seems to have a knack of writing beautiful songs about everything from the inane nature of social media to sarcastic ballads mocking what Pitchfork described as “the entire franchise of privileged white men”.
It's the year 2067, and everybody is vegan. As younger generations struggle to comprehend the actions of their ancestors, older people seek forgiveness for the things they once swallowed. A deadpan and hilarious documentary.
Check it out now on BBC iPlayer.
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present is a non-fiction film examining the pioneering life and works of artist, musician, and educator, Tony Conrad.
Chuck Berry, a music pioneer often called the Father of Rock 'n' Roll, was found dead this Saturday.
Berry wrote and recorded many American rock & roll classics including "Johnny B. Goode" and "Sweet Little Sixteen".
"Berry took all-night hamburger stands, brown-eyed handsome men and V-8 Fords and turned them into the stuff of American poetry. By doing so, he gave rise to followers beyond number, bar-band disciples of the electric guitar, who carried his musical message to the far corners of the Earth."
Today marks 1 Day Without Us: a National Day of Action to celebrate the contribution of migrants to the UK, to coincide with UN World Day of Social Justice.
"For 24 hours, we are inviting migrants from inside and outside the European Union, and everyone who supports them, to celebrate the contribution that migrants make.
The film will tell the story of a woman as she begins to examine her own sexuality and her enjoyment of sex. For the first time in her life she asks what it is about sex that she finds pleasurable. She wants to stop performing what she has been told is sexy, and instead she starts to explore what she wants and needs to feel sexy.
After graduating from Slade School of Fine Art with a 1st, Bronwen has produced and directed films for Channel 4, BBC, Vice, Vivienne Westwood, Christies, Nowness, Hunger TV, and exhibited her films and photography worldwide.
