David Purcell

As so often, says Eric Bouvet, the stage was set, the actors ready. “You get this amazing orchestra,” he says, “and you’re the conductor. You decide your point of view, your frame,…
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Illustration: Lalalimola/The GuardianGoing Out: CinemaEncounterOut nowWell-regarded British director Michael Pearce (Beast) directs the always likable Riz Ahmed in a close…
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Chilean director Pablo Larraín describes his creative process and FT political editor George Parker examines the UK’s House of LordsDo we need another Princess Diana film? Maybe we…
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Do we need another Princess Diana film? Maybe we do, actually. This weekend, we’re talking about new ways to see old things. Lilah speaks with director Pablo Larraín, who our film…
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Franz Streitwieser, a German-born trumpeter who amassed a collection of brass instruments that encompassed centuries of music history and drew musicians from around the world to…
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2. The cast could score multiple nominations.The 1961 version of “West Side Story” picked up both of the supporting Oscars — in addition to Moreno, George Chakiris won for his…
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MURDER MAPS USACrime Scenes Revisited; Bloodstains to Ballistics, 1865-1939By Adam SelzerIllustrated. 224 pp. Thames & Hudson. $35.Like last year’s “Murder Maps: Crime Scenes…
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It was on the back of the success of “The Frozen Heart” that Ms. Grandes started her six-novel series, set during the first 25 years of Franco’s dictatorship, from 1939 to 1964.…
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Sitting in the corner of a white cube at the National Gallery of Victoria are three small, empty glass bottles. Each has a printed black and white label that reads Pour l’été: for…
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Sir Antony Sher was one of the leading actors of his generation. A brilliant interpreter of Shakespeare, he was an honorary associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare…
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