Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Film round-up: January 27, 2023
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews All The Beauty and The Bloodshed, The Fabelmans, January, Unwelcome
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed (18)
Directed by Laura Poitras
★★★★
THIS powerful and haunting documentary by Oscar winning film-maker Laura Poitras is the epic story of artist and activist Nan Goldin, her trailblazing career and her endless fight to hold one of America’s most powerful families to account for the opioid crisis.
It is a compilation of Goldin’s groundbreaking photography, slide-shows, intimate interviews and rare footage, shot by Goldin herself, of her protests against the Sacklers who patronise the arts but whose fortune derives from the profits of Purdue Pharma, and its product, the addictive opiate Oxycontin, whose misuse sparked an epidemic.
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