7 h. ago Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness review – Johnny Depp’s Modigliani as bohemian badass

A lineup including Stephen Graham and Al Pacino seem wasted on this lavish, but hackneyed drama about the Italian artist Some very cliched roistering, life-affirming wine-drinking, bourgeois-defying artistic shenanigans here from the veteran screenwriting couple Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski who have adapted a 1980 stage play, Modigliani by Dennis McIntyre, about the Italian sculptor and painter Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi. Johnny Depp directs and perhaps sees his subject as a bohemian badass not unlike Hunter S Thompson, whom he played in Terry Gilliam’s 1998 movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – and perhaps not altogether unlike how he sees himself.It is 1916 in Paris and the brutality of war is destroying the belle époque; Riccardo Scamarcio plays Modigliani, a brilliant, sensual but penniless artist facing poverty and casual antisemitism. Having got into a chaotic affray at a pompous posh restaurant – filmed like a deleted scene from Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeer...

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7 h. ago Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness review – Johnny Depp’s painter as bohemian badass

A lineup including Stephen Graham and Al Pacino seem wasted on this lavish, but hackneyed drama about the Italian artist Some very cliched roistering, life-affirming wine-drinking, bourgeois-defying artistic shenanigans here from the veteran screenwriting couple Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski who have adapted a 1980 stage play, Modigliani by Dennis McIntyre, about the Italian sculptor and painter Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi. Johnny Depp directs and perhaps sees his subject as a bohemian badass not unlike Hunter S Thompson, whom he played in Terry Gilliam’s 1998 movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – and perhaps not altogether unlike how he sees himself.It is 1916 in Paris and the brutality of war is destroying the belle époque; Riccardo Scamarcio plays Modigliani, a brilliant, sensual but penniless artist facing poverty and casual antisemitism. Having got into a chaotic affray at a pompous posh restaurant – filmed like a deleted scene from Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeer...

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27 h. ago Indian workers go on a daylong nationwide strike against Modi's economic reforms

Hundreds of thousands of workers in India went on strike, opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's privatization plans and economic reforms

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1 week ago Prison officer shot dead told partner 'I've made it worse, he runs the wing'

The family of prison officer Lenny Scott, 33, have revealed how he was 'scared' before his death - the dad of three was shot dead outside a gym near Wigan

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1 week ago Prison officer shot dead had told partner 'I've made it worse, he runs the wing'

Lenny Scott was shot six times outside a gym after exposing inmate Elias Morgan's relationship with a female officer.

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1 week ago Prison officer told partner 'I've made it worse...he runs the wing' before he was shot dead

Elias Morgan is accused of shooting Lenny Scott in an "act of retaliation" - he denies the charge

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1 week ago Al Pacino on how he got his Modigliani film off the ground after 30 years

Exclusive: Actor talks of difficulties of getting ‘art film’ made about tortured artist, played by Riccardo ScamarcioHe is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, having made his name in the 1970s gangster classic The Godfather. Yet, despite his fame and Oscars recognition, Al Pacino struggled for 30 years to make a movie about one of the 20th century’s greatest artists because “art films” are “always difficult to get off the ground”.He refused to give up on a drama about Amedeo Modigliani, a tortured genius who faced repeated rejection before his life was cut short in 1920 by tubercular meningitis, aged 35. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago In pictures: Modi leads record attempt as India marks International Day of Yoga

People gather for events organised across the world to mark 11th International Day of Yoga

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3 w. ago Canadian intelligence accuses India over Sikh’s killing as Carney meets Modi

Killing of Canadian national was ‘significant escalation in India’s repression efforts’ but leaders shake hands at G7Canada’s spy agency has warned that the assassination in British Columbia of a prominent Sikh activist signaled a “significant escalation in India’s repression efforts” and reflects a broader, transnational campaign by the government in New Delhi to threaten dissidents.The report was made public a day after Mark Carney shook hands with Narendra Modi at the G7 and pledged to restore diplomatic relations in a very public attempt to turn the page on the bitter diplomatic row unleashed by the murder of the Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Did faulty wing flaps cause Air India crash? How 787 jet 'made FOUR emergency landings in last month because of problems with flaps and landing gear'

Investigations are being stepped up following yesterday's tragedy that killed hundreds of people aboard the London Gatwick-bound aircraft.

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3 w. ago Air India Plane Crash in Ahmedabad LIVE Updates: PM Modi arrives in city to take stock of situation, day after deadly Boeing 787

Air India Plane Crash in Ahmedabad LIVE Updates: PM Modi arrives in city to take stock of situation, day after deadly Boeing 787-8 crash  The Indian Express

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