Latest update: 14/06/2010

Jim Morrison back on screen

Today Lisa Nesselson talks about a rock legend: Jim Morrison. Tom Dicillo is releasing his feature-length documentary "When You're Strange", about the American band "The Doors". The movie was poorly received at last year's Sundance Film Festival. The director's since re-worked the editing and enlisted Doors fan Johnny Depp, as narrator. A fresh lick of paint that makes work more in harmony with Morrison's poetry.

CULTURE CRITICS

Jessica Michault

Fashion Critic
Amobe Mevegue

Music Critic
Sean Rose

Art Critic
Lisa Nesselson

Film Critic
Stephen Clarke

French Culture Critic

04/04/2013 - CULTURE

The short story is having its moment, and rightly so. When you don’t have time to read an entire novel, a short, self-contained story is the perfect alternative, giving you a compressed blast of reading pleasure. Our book critic, Sylvia Whitman, tells us about some of her favourite short story collections.

03/04/2013 - CULTURE

The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plane

After nearly two decades of (slightly) more serious fare, Pedro Almodovar gives full flight to flamboyance in "I'm So Excited," an outlandish confection set almost entirely on a circling plane. Our cinema critic Lisa Nesselson tells us more.

02/04/2013 - CULTURE

Justin Timberlake: the Triumphant Comeback of a Pop Icon

Our music critic Amobe Mevegue tells us about Justin Timberlake's extraordinary musical comeback with "the 20/20 experience" album. Plus, we discover the Qwartz electronic Music Awards, and sounds from the promising Ivory Coast artist Serge Beynaud.

01/04/2013 - CULTURE

'Art At War'

'Art at war, 1938-1947', an exhibition that explores the state of the visual arts in France from the rise of fascism to the aftermath of the Second World War. After Paris’ Museum of modern art, the show curated by art historian Laurence Bertrand Dorléac is moving on to Guggenheim Bilbao.

29/03/2013 - CULTURE

Daily Life Under Dictatorship in Burma

Chained men carrying heavy stones: this is just one of the images from the magnificent collection by Nic Dunlop. His new book "Brave New Burma" focuses on the struggles of daily life under the dictatorship in Burma. Virginie Herz tells us more in her photography review.