Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

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RADICAL: A TOWERING TRIBUTE TO TEACHING

To Sir With Love south of the border, a Dead Poets Society for the dirt poor, Christopher Zalla’s RADICAL is a tribute to teaching and the valour that vocation bestows on the whole community.

Winner of the Sundance Film Favourite

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THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D’ARTAGNAN

Seven stars headline THE THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D’ARTAGNAN, the first instalment of the latest big screen dalliance with the Dumas classic.

There’s Francois Civil as Charles D’Artagnan, charming, carefree, insolent but with an inherent innocence.

Vincent Cassel as Athos, the

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MONSTER: NOT A CREATURE FEATURE

Kore-eda Hirokazu goes the full Rashomon in his latest film, MONSTER.

The film follows Minato (Soya Kurokawa), a schoolboy who starts to behave strangely, his widowed mother (Sakura Ando) feels that there is something wrong at school. Minato dobs on

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RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS

In the final stages of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s life, with touring and solo shows now impossible due to his health battle, the classical composer, techno-pop pioneer and prodigious piano soloist wanted to perform for the world one final time. So he

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THE 13th MONTH: SATIRE NIGHT FEVER

Thirty days hath September, April, June and November all the rest have thirty-one, except February which has 28 or 29.

It’s not neat, indeed it’s messy, much like Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou’s new play, THE 13th MONTH, a battle between bureaucrats

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HSBC GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

Reminiscent of Mads Mikkelsen in Another Round, Frederick Lau delivers an outstanding performance in ONE FOR THE ROAD, a deep dive story into the drinking culture set between Berlin’s famous bars and sober therapy rooms. After losing his driver’s licence

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THE DEED: WORTH THE READ INDEED

Glued and screwed.

It’s a term used in the construction of a coffin and quite easily be applied as a metaphor for family dynamics in Susannah Begbie’s Richell Prize winning debut novel, THE DEED.

A ridiculous will where insanity and

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