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| | | Fire Island review – breezy gay spin on Pride and Prejudice fails to ignite | | by Guy Lodge Jun 2, 2022 | | There are winning performances and some sharp moments in Andrew Ahn’s queer take on Jane Austen’s romantic comedy but it’s hampered by missteps Gay, thirtysomething and, in his words, “terminally alone, Howie (Bowen Yang) has based all his thus far unrealised ideals of romance on the heterosexual romantic comedies he grew up watching on screen: opposites attracting, meeting cute and making mad dashes for each other at the airport. “Shit like that doesn’t happen in real life,” counsels his best friend Noah (Joel Kim Booster), though it’s not as if Howie needs reminding – he just wants “the romcom stuff” anyway. Andrew Ahn’s sunny gay buddy movie Fire Island negotiates that fundamental conflict in its characters while also falling prey to it as a film. Mapping conventionally cheesy romantic comedy beats on to less Hollywood-dictated homosexual terrain, it also aims to deliver some tough truths about the modern gay dating scene between the sweetened sunset smooches and all’s-well-that-ends-well optimism of sundry past vehicles for Sandra Bullock or Meg Ryan. The result, like those films, is more aspirational than it is convincing. Continue reading... | | | | | 'It's very painful': Sarah Jessica Parker lifts lid on Kim Cattrall rift | | by Alexi Duggins Jun 2, 2022 | | Actor speaks at length for first time about supposed falling out with her ex-Sex and the City colleague Sarah Jessica Parker has spoken at length for the first time about her supposed feud with former Sex and the City co-star Kim Cattrall. For six seasons, the pair starred together in the show, which focused on the lives of four New York women. They went on to appear alongside each other in the two follow-up movie adaptations, but in recent years there has long been talk of a falling out between the two actors, largely fuelled by barbed statements Cattrall has made. Continue reading... | | | | | Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025's city of culture | | by Saima Mir Jun 2, 2022 | | From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul Bradford, this week announced as the UK’s 2025 city of culture, was my home for more than 30 years. I was raised there, went to the university there, and landed my first journalism job at the local paper. It is also the place where I first came up with my debut novel, The Khan. Misunderstood and much maligned by those who don’t know it, Bradford is a great city, and the love I feel for it runs deep. Here are 10 things you need to know about Bradford. Continue reading... | | | | | Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses review | Erica Jeal's classical album of the week | | by Erica Jeal Jun 2, 2022 | | Pavel Kolesnikov
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Reynaldo Hahn’s delicate piano miniatures become quiet, dreamy masterpieces in Kolesnikov’s hands Stick most classical musicians in front of a studio microphone and they will try to replicate a perfect performance under perfect concert-hall conditions. But what if they were to conceive an interpretation instead, shaping it for private rather than communal listening? Pavel Kolesnikov took this approach, winningly, with Bach’s venerable Goldberg Variations in 2020, and now applies it in his championing of the piano music of Reynaldo Hahn. And Hahn deserves championing, as this programme of gorgeous, delicate miniatures demonstrates. Born in Caracas and raised in Paris, he moved in the leading artistic circles at the turn of the 20th century, and was Proust’s only significant lover. Today you’ll sometimes hear his songs in the recital hall, but his piano music is largely there for discovering. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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