In 2022, to mark the 50th anniversary of Ziggy Stardust, collaborators, historians, collectors and fans congregated in Liverpool for a weekend of communion, remembrance and celebration. Six years after his passing, David Bowie’s afterlife might turn out to be his most intriguing adventure of all…
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Joni's archives give us an opportunity to feel the jeopardy and wonder of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary solo odysseys
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Joni Mitchell's star-sailing, time-scrambling 1976 solo odyssey across America
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Sam Riley gets his groove back in a languid mystery with Highsmithian pretensions
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Christy initially comes on like it’s going to be a gritty corrective to the larks of The Young Offenders but unfurls into something more complex, surprising and moving
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Kolb delivers a typically electrifying, enigmatic portrait of a mother fighting like a cornered animal to keep her family together
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The atrocity kink eventually extends to morbid cosplay, a little like Amélie meets The Nazis: A Warning from History, with Hitler’s bathtub in place of crème brûlée.
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In its focus on the spirit and the flesh, the film feels as timeless as Black Narcissus or Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Fans who hoped that Aster had got all the indulgence out of his system with the splurge of Beau may be frustrated.