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By the Sea: the flop that foretold the end of Brangelina

[2016-10-08 07:32]

Last autumn, the Pitts, as they then were, released a curious Euro-art-movie called By the Sea, directed by her and starring them both, about a couple with raging marital problems at a French seaside resort. Few saw it, and the critical reception was generally unkind - it was accused of being a vanity project, a wispy and vain white-people-problem movie by the superstar couple de nos jours.

Kevin Spacey is like a piece of possessed taxidermy

[2016-08-27 08:29]

I can't say I've ever been much of a cat person, but until now I'd never felt a deep and unassuageable longing to chase one down the street with a flame thrower. That's all changed, though, thanks to Nine Lives, a film in which Kevin Spacey turns into a cat, and which makes the Garfield movies from ten years ago look like peak-form Billy Wilder.

Groundhog Day: the Musical could be better than the classic movie

[2016-08-27 08:29]

Something extraordinary has happened at the Old Vic. A much-loved, ingeniously funny and clever Hollywood film has made a triumphant theatrical rebirth - in a show that looks, on first viewing, equal to, and perhaps better than, the movie.

National Gallery scours UK collections for 'unfashionable' Caravaggio

[2016-08-27 08:29]

When staging a blockbuster art exhibition, it is usual for curators to call on the leading museums of the world to loan their finest objects.

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[2016-03-26 07:58]

2016 Shanghai Longines Global Champions Tour

Rules are meant to be taken flexibly

[2016-03-26 07:58]

Margaret Drabble, an English novelist, biographer and critic, asked, "Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?"

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[2016-03-26 07:58]

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[2016-01-09 09:11]

National Theater of China Taking Leave

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[2016-01-09 09:11]

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Trust partner and take care yourself

[2016-01-09 09:11]

Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman orator and statesman who died in 43 B.C., said, "Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."

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[2015-12-05 08:03]

Shanghai Kunqu Opera - The Peony Pavilion

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