New releases from The Orb, Meredith Monk, and Marconi Union
Film of the week: Generational genocide
The horrors of a futile conflict which wiped out millions in WWI are captured to devastating effect in Journey's End, says MARIA DUARTE
Nuannced: Sam Claflin in Jourmey's End
RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Journey's End (12A)
Directed by Saul Dibb
THIS tense and claustrophobic film, an adaptation of RC Sheriff's 1928 play and novel, dispels all heroic or romanticised notions about warfare.
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