5 d. ago ‘I went to the UK’s most underrated festival and was amazed by what I what I saw'

EXCLUSIVE: Cross the Tracks festival has been entertaining music lovers for seven years, so reporter Bekka Barnard took a trip down to Brockwell Park to experience it herself

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1 week ago Of course a Breathless tribute charmed Cannes – this is a festival that loves itself

Cannes organisers adore a Cannes shout-out in the films they programme, with the latest being ‘Nouvelle Vague’, Richard Linklater’s jaunty dramatisation of the making of a French classic. But it’s no empty pastiche, argues Xan Brooks

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2 w. ago The History of Sound review – Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance is full

Cannes film festival A love story of two folk song aficionados in the early days of recorded music is told with tiresomely mournful awe at its own sadnessOliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound has admirers in Cannes; but I couldn’t help finding it an anaemic, laborious, achingly tasteful film, originally a short story by Ben Shattuck which has become a quasi-Brokeback Mountain film whose tone is one of persistent mournful awe at its own sadness.Hermanus has made great movies in the past including Beauty and Living but this is a film that is almost petrified by its own upmarket values, paralysed under the varnish of classiness. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Alan Cumming on the magic of Pitlochry Festival Theatre: 'I love the soup to nuts aspect of the place'

As Pitlochry Festival Theatre gears up for its summer season, the venue’s new artistic director Alan Cumming tells Joyce McMillan what makes it so special

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2 w. ago Jennifer Lawrence bravely opens up about 'extremely isolating' postpartum struggle

Jennifer Lawrence is starring as a mother battling psychosis in her new film Die, My Love, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday

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2 w. ago Jennifer Lawrence shares 'extremely isolating' postpartum struggles after the birth of her first child as she stars as a mother battling psychosis in Cannes film Die, My Love

The actress, 34, who welcomed her second baby earlier this year, is starring as a mother battling psychosis in her new film Die, My Love, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

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3 w. ago Boomtown, Reading and Leeds, and Love Saves the Day among 46 festivals uniting to fundraise for children affected by war

Music fans will be given a chance to win a pair of tickets to some of the UK’s top festivals this summer

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3 w. ago BAFTA TV Awards leaves viewers 'disgusted and outraged' as legendary star is snubbed from In Memoriam tributes

During the prestigious television awards, held at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday, a number of much-loved stars were paid tribute to.

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