David Purcell

Who now remembers Rita Strohl, Virginie Morel, Clémence de Grandval, Hedwige Chrétien or Marie-Foscarine Damaschino? The discoveries come tumbling forth, as if there is no…
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Lankum’s new album opens with a suicide. Those familiar with the Dublin band’s take on traditional music will be unsurprised by the grim subject matter. The foursome are…
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Lana Del Rey deserves recognition for services to mystique. Once a prized quality for stars, the veil separating celebrity from civilian, it has suffered a downgrade in the…
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“Égarés” are wanderers or people who have gone astray. Kora player Ballaké Sissoko, for example, is Malian musical royalty, but has spent many years making records with…
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It’s too cliché to call a new season of “Succession” “highly anticipated.” When creator Jesse Armstrong announced in February that the upcoming fourth season would be the show’s…
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Hlynur Pálmason has been held up. The writer and director recently booked a screening tour of his native Iceland for his head-spinning new film Godland. He was keen to present the…
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By all accounts, Alexander Skarsgård is a nice guy, surprisingly down to earth for one so uncannily good-looking and abdominally chiselled. And yet you can’t help worrying…
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The number four is considered unlucky in much of Asia because the word in Chinese (“si” or “sei”) sounds similar to the word for death. So it proves in the fourth, and…
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Does Florence Pugh need to fire her agent or start listening to her agent? Either way, the actress could use a new strategy. Last year, the gossip-plagued Don’t Worry…
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The rural bar in The Beasts is basic: a few rough tables, one forever occupied by local farmers setting the world to rights. You might well see something precious in that…
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