Roy AnderssonReview(Cert 15)When Ingmar Bergman died in July last year, the soul-searching and breast-beating began on the subject of whether there was anyone who could possibly take his place. There isn't. Why should there be? At the time, though, I made a muted and qualified proposal that one candidate has a sliver of something little noticed in Bergman: his sense of humour. This was the Swedish film-maker Roy Andersson, whose poignant and hilarious movies - like a hypnotic succession of sumptuously mounted Beckettian tableaux - take him an enormously long time to fund and produce. Read More...
CIA This article is more than 13 years oldCIA chief in Pakistan leaves after drone trial blows his coverThis article is more than 13 years oldJonathan Banks, station chief In Islamabad, back in US after calls for him to be charged with murder over drone attack
The CIA has pulled its station chief from Islamabad, one of America's most important spy posts, after his cover was blown in a legal action brought by victims of US drone strikes in the tribal belt. Read More...
CoachellaReviewFrom his recent apocalyptic anger back to his early screwball humour, Eminem acknowledges his star has waned – but he’s still a funny, anthemic star
Paris Hilton is in the crowd at Eminem with her fiance, but are the millennials? I am standing between her and a sixtysomething white-haired man who will soon be swaying his hips to every bar. Before Em appears, Paris – who became infamous during that same weird late-90s MTV era as the rapper – takes selfies with everyone, happy to be recognised: like Eminem, she’s fighting to stay around. Read More...