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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow The Wind in the Wilton's review – Mr Toad and pals take on weaselly property developers by David Jays Dec 1, 2022 Wilton’s Music Hall, London Piers Torday’s update of the children’s classic brings Kenneth Grahame’s animals to modern-day London Kenneth Grahame had terrifying nightmares about lying helpless while his house was ransacked. The idea of home held a deep emotional charge for the author of The Wind in the Willows (1908) and that same impulse thrums through Piers Torday’s appealing update. As suggested by the full clunky title (The Wind in the Willows Wilton’s), Torday tugs the story from Grahame’s idyllic Berkshire stretch of the Thames down to roister-doister contemporary London. Unscrupulous property developer weasels are snaffling the desirable riverbank, abetted by ferret lawyers. Forced above ground when his cosy burrow is threatened, Mole (an endearing Corey Montague Sholay in plush black coat and fingerless mittens) allies with Ratty, Badger and erratic Toad, defending not only his home but the entire precious riverbank. The Wind in the Wilton’s is at Wilton’s Music Hall, London, until 31 December. Continue reading... Continue Reading Chantal Akerman becomes first woman to top Sight & Sound's greatest all-time films poll by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture correspondent Dec 1, 2022 Film-maker’s 1976 feature Jeanne Dielman pushes Vertigo into second place and Citizen Kane into third It was heralded by Le Monde in 1976 as “the first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of cinema”. Nearly 50 years later, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles has become the first feature by a female film-maker to be named the “greatest film of all time” by Sight & Sound. Akerman’s 70s classic, which follows the meticulous daily routine of a middle-aged widow over the course of three days – including having sex with male clients for her own and her son’s subsistence – topped the decennial poll this year for the British Film Institute’s (BFI) magazine, pushing Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to second place and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane to third. Continue reading... Continue Reading Max Beckmann self-portrait breaks German art auction record with €20m sale by Kate Connolly in Berlin Dec 1, 2022 Beckmann painted work in Amsterdam after fleeing Nazi Germany and shows him as younger man with enigmatic smile A rare and remarkable self-portrait by the 20th-century German expressionist Max Beckmann has sold in Berlin for €20m (£17m), breaking the record for a work of art sold at auction in Germany. The striking Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa (Self-portrait Yellow-Pink) was painted by Beckmann during his wartime exile in Amsterdam after he fled Nazi Germany. The identity of its new owner was not immediately available. With fees and other charges, the cost to the buyer was €23.2m. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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