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Anthony Page obituary

Stage and screen director behind landmark productions of Samuel Beckett, John Osborne and Edward Albee

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

Ted Craig obituary

Other lives: Artistic director of the Warehouse theatre, Croydon

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9

Careless whispers: what really happened between George Michael and Lindsay Anderson? The Wham! movie producer reveals all

How did the pioneering director get involved – then fall out – with the 80s’ poppiest band? How are Sam Peckinpah and Michael Jackson’s Thriller involved? Prepare for a tale of ambition, deception and shuttlecock-stuffed shorts

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4

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Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east

The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28

The Wham! film George Michael never wanted to be released

Late pop star was so unimpressed with the director’s cut of the band’s historic 1985 tour of China that he refused to let it see the light of day

The Independent UK · Jul 27

‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China

Four decades after he and George Michael became the first western pop act to tour the country, Ridgeley recalls silent gigs, awkward embassy receptions – and the ‘bloody ludicrous’ hiring of Lindsay Anderson as director

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27

“You’re watching a lot of this film through your fingers”: We speak to director Mike Christie about bringing Wham!’s groundbreaking 1985 China trip back to life in a captivating new film

Combining never before seen archive footage with fresh interviews, Christie’s new film is the ultimate document of Wham!’s momentous but turbulent 1985 trip - and the legacy it left on a generation of Chinese fans

MusicRadar · Jul 23

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Frank Grimes obituary

Actor who had a long career on the London stage, mentored by Lindsay Anderson, and appeared in films and popular TV series

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2025

Interior design trends set to define our home style in 2025

Sam Wylie-Harris reveals what’s the colours, vibes and design tactics setting the scene for the year ahead.

The Independent UK · Jan 2, 2025

Samuel Beckett smoking a French cigarette: John Haynes’s best photograph

‘One day, I was summoned to a pub near the Royal Court theatre where Samuel Beckett was looking at my work. “These are wonderful pictures,” he said’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2024

“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind, harsh and cruel … It was very upsetting to have someone you admire being so nasty about your work”: Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull’s War Child, and 1974

Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year

Louder · Oct 14, 2024

‘Did this one for dad’: Bill Paxton’s son makes special Twisters cameo in honor of father

Bill Paxton, who starred in the original 1996 ‘Twister,’ died in 2017

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2024

Bill Paxton’s son to play later father’s role in Last Train to Fortune

The actor died of a stroke after heart surgery in 2017

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2024

Donald Rodney review – the young dying artist who struck at Britain’s sick, racist heart

As sickle cell anaemia attacked his body, the artist made political drawings on X-rays and used his own skin for sculpture

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2024

Eleanor Fazan obituary

Theatre director who took Beyond the Fringe to the West End and worked on hit productions throughout the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2023

Shirley Anne Field obituary

British actor who starred in the 1960s film classics Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Entertainer

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2023

Dead dogs, capitalist critique and only four songs: when Wham! squashed Lindsay Anderson’s China film

The British pop stars hired the Palme d’Or winner to record their groundbreaking shows in east Asia. After it all ended in tears, the unseen film was locked up in a Scottish university

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2023

Streaming: the best winners of Cannes’ Palme d’Or

Twenty-one films will vie for the top spot at the 76th Cannes film festival, which starts next week, hoping to join the roll call of past classics, from Taxi Driver and M*A*S*H to Parasite

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2022

My father’s films changed how British cinema saw the poor. Today, they repay a second look

With films such as 1960’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Karel Reisz was a pioneer in reshaping perceptions of ordinary Britons. I think there’s still lots to learn from them

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