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SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Cinema round-up: 11.08.2017
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
Atomic Blonde (15)
Directed by David Leitch
3/5
IN THE mad mish-mash which is Atomic Blonde, there’s a brief opening glimpse of Ronald Reagan, in his finest role as US President, exhorting the world to “tear down the wall.”
That wall — Trump’s Mexican battlement is still to come — is the one in Berlin, whose final days are the catalysis for this fast, furious and eminently fatuous spy thriller that’s substantially more Carry On than Le Carre.
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