La Fille mal gardée (or The Wayward Daughter) is one of Frederick Ashton’s most charming ballets. Its combination of lighthearted story, beautiful solos and pas de deux and lively ensembles have made it a timeless classic of the Royal Ballet repertory and an audience favourite every time.
This is not a gossip filled book on one of the most important film periodicals out there in any language. Cahier du Cinema used to be the most important film magazine in the world. Many a film director or script writer started their career writing for Cahier du Cinema
SAT 20TH MARCH - MULLETS AND TRACKSUITS NIGHT! Ever wanted to go out looking like an East-Berliner circa 1998? Well now's your chance! Comb down the mullet, iron your best tracksuit, and get yourself down to their Mullet and Tracksuit Night. Anyone in fancy dress gets to jump the queue.
Dubbed 'red hot' by The New York Times, Hélène Grimaud is a pianist with a difference.
OSS 117: Lost in Rio, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 2008 cult spy spoof OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies, makes its DVD debut on 12 April 2010. The hilarious sequel sees Jean Dujardin return...
The film follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Luna), who meets a Marilyn lookalike (Morton) in Paris. She takes him under her wing and brings him to a community in Scotland, peopled by lookalikes and ruled by the Pope (Fox) and Queen Elizabeth II (Anita Pallenberg, appearing with Fox for the first time since Performance). In a sub-plot, a German priest (Herzog, a fan of Korine’s work) is overseeing relief deliveries in third world conditions, when a nun...
The latest commission for The Curve is by French contemporary artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot and takes the form of a walk-through aviary inhabited by 40 zebra finches. For his first UK solo exhibition Boursier-Mougenot constructed a landscape for the birds using bass guitars and Gibson Les Paul electric guitars as perches, and cymbals as feeders containing water and seeds. As the birds go about their routine activities, settling on the instruments, plucking...
This French artist who graduated from both the Paris Beaux-Arts and Goldsmiths in London is now exhibiting some of her work based on her troubled family relationships at Riflemaker in Soho. Two of...
From 23rd January until 18th April 2010 The Royal Academy of Arts presents a landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist's...
What influences or determines our sense of who we are? What makes one person distinct from another? How does science inform human identity? This major exhibition explores the tension between the...
Refreshing new artist, Estelle Rocca-Serra makes her solo debut as part of the Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity’s Hospital Arts Project – admission FREE. From 15th to 27th March.
Bernard Frize's exhibition RED, YELLOW and BLUE is on at the Simon Lee Gallery until 24th March. His abstract paintings are remarkable and have attrated many art collectors.
Bloomberg SPACE presents a series of newly commissioned work by artist Damien Deroubaix and an ambitious architectural intervention by Marc Camille Chaimowicz as part of the ongoing ... COMMA is a...
One woman tribute to tragic French hermaphrodite Hercule Barbin. Until 27th March at the Oval Theatre House.
A year-long series of French-British encounters between writers & thinkers at the Institut français.
The singer speaks to Cinémoi about this new record, which is full of invention. The title track takes a sample of an MRI machine and uses it as an instrument, akin to a guitar solo. Beck's pastiche-laden style is made real by Gainsbourg's gentle sincerity. At 7.30pm on 15th March (see other times)