The actor on Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, David Shrigley’s unsettling cartoons, designing T-shirts online and getting his dad into RuPaul’s Drag Race
Born in Harlow in 1988 and raised in Hertfordshire, Rupert Grint rose to fame after being cast as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series – the world’s second-highest grossing movie franchise – at the age of 11, alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. Outside the Potter world, his film roles include Driving Lessons (2006), Wild Target (2010), and Postman Pat (2014). He made his stage debut in Mojo at the Harold Pinter theatre, London, in 2013. He has recently starred in Snatch (2017), a TV adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s film of the same name, and will star alongside Nick Frost in new TV comedy Sick Note, launching on Sky 1 and streaming service Now TV on 7 November.
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Born in Harlow in 1988 and raised in Hertfordshire, Rupert Grint rose to fame after being cast as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series – the world’s second-highest grossing movie franchise – at the age of 11, alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. Outside the Potter world, his film roles include Driving Lessons (2006), Wild Target (2010), and Postman Pat (2014). He made his stage debut in Mojo at the Harold Pinter theatre, London, in 2013. He has recently starred in Snatch (2017), a TV adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s film of the same name, and will star alongside Nick Frost in new TV comedy Sick Note, launching on Sky 1 and streaming service Now TV on 7 November.
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- 10/29/2017
- by Kathryn Bromwich
- The Guardian - Film News
The deviser of unsettling public encounters is a world-class artist in a way that the other contenders – Laure Prouvost, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – are not
The 2013 Turner prize shortlist is strangely unbalanced, but it also makes sense in that each of the artists are in their different ways highly accessible. It has something for everyone.
When two of us on the 2004 Turner prize jury wanted David Shrigley on the shortlist, the other judges shook their heads and laughed. We were serious. So, I think, is Shrigley, whose dark humour is at best a mordant response to modern life. I like that his work is available everywhere: that we can cackle over his books of drawings in the loo doesn't make what he does trivial – though I still think his drawings and animations are way better than his paintings and sculpture.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings are mostly fictitious portraits. I think...
The 2013 Turner prize shortlist is strangely unbalanced, but it also makes sense in that each of the artists are in their different ways highly accessible. It has something for everyone.
When two of us on the 2004 Turner prize jury wanted David Shrigley on the shortlist, the other judges shook their heads and laughed. We were serious. So, I think, is Shrigley, whose dark humour is at best a mordant response to modern life. I like that his work is available everywhere: that we can cackle over his books of drawings in the loo doesn't make what he does trivial – though I still think his drawings and animations are way better than his paintings and sculpture.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings are mostly fictitious portraits. I think...
- 4/25/2013
- by Adrian Searle
- The Guardian - Film News
The Digital Public Space is set to give unprecedented access to the nation's cultural heritage – thanks to a small BBC team
It is nine years until the BBC's centenary in 2022, the date originally set by its former director of archive content, Roly Keating, for digitising the bulk of the vast archives that date back to the birth of the corporation. Given the gargantuan scale of the task – which includes 1m hours of programming, 10m stills, the world's largest sheet music collection and documentation for every programme – many might have given up. Instead, a determined team has been working on an even more ambitious scheme, the Digital Public Space, to open as much of this material as possible to the public.
The Digital Public Space is not a product or a service, but – possibly explaining its low profile – a more esoteric, visionary plan for the nation's shared cultural history. Conceived by...
It is nine years until the BBC's centenary in 2022, the date originally set by its former director of archive content, Roly Keating, for digitising the bulk of the vast archives that date back to the birth of the corporation. Given the gargantuan scale of the task – which includes 1m hours of programming, 10m stills, the world's largest sheet music collection and documentation for every programme – many might have given up. Instead, a determined team has been working on an even more ambitious scheme, the Digital Public Space, to open as much of this material as possible to the public.
The Digital Public Space is not a product or a service, but – possibly explaining its low profile – a more esoteric, visionary plan for the nation's shared cultural history. Conceived by...
- 1/7/2013
- by Jemima Kiss
- The Guardian - Film News
Leos Carax's experimental odyssey is barking mad, weightless and euphoric – it's what we have all come to Cannes for
Leos Carax's Holy Motors is weird and wonderful, rich and strange – barking mad, in fact. It is wayward, kaleidoscopic, black comic and bizarre; there is in it a batsqueak of genius, dishevelment and derangement; it is captivating and compelling. This film may or may not be a prizewinner here – although I think it may actually get the Palme d'Or – but really this is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama. Some may find it affected or exasperating; I found it weightless and euphoric.
Holy Motors is a mysterious odyssey through the streets of an eerie,...
Leos Carax's Holy Motors is weird and wonderful, rich and strange – barking mad, in fact. It is wayward, kaleidoscopic, black comic and bizarre; there is in it a batsqueak of genius, dishevelment and derangement; it is captivating and compelling. This film may or may not be a prizewinner here – although I think it may actually get the Palme d'Or – but really this is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama. Some may find it affected or exasperating; I found it weightless and euphoric.
Holy Motors is a mysterious odyssey through the streets of an eerie,...
- 5/23/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming up
Each Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.
• It was Turner prize shortlist week. Here's Adrian Searle's verdict on Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, and Luke Fowler. Fowler is yet another Glaswegian – or, rather Glasgow-based artist. He studied in Dundee. (Trivia: Elizabeth Price was in the 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, as was the philosophy editor of Oxford University Press and the chief economist and director of mergers at the Office of Fair Trading.)
• Arts Council England/the BBC launched the Space. The reports mostly focused on the fact that John Peel's record collection will gradually be made available to rifle through online, but perhaps you should think of it as a "YouTube...
Each Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.
• It was Turner prize shortlist week. Here's Adrian Searle's verdict on Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, and Luke Fowler. Fowler is yet another Glaswegian – or, rather Glasgow-based artist. He studied in Dundee. (Trivia: Elizabeth Price was in the 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, as was the philosophy editor of Oxford University Press and the chief economist and director of mergers at the Office of Fair Trading.)
• Arts Council England/the BBC launched the Space. The reports mostly focused on the fact that John Peel's record collection will gradually be made available to rifle through online, but perhaps you should think of it as a "YouTube...
- 5/3/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
On the eve of a major Magritte exhibition, artists with an eye for the peculiar reveal why they love the witty Belgian surrealist
Terry Gilliam Film director and former member of Monty Python
It wasn't until I'd seen Magritte's work collected together in an exhibition at the Tate, at the end of the 1960s I think, that I realised just how incredibly funny his stuff was. People walk around these exhibitions in a religious state of awe and I just walked round this one laughing uncontrollably. Until then, I'd always thought of Magritte as having an interesting and intriguing mind – the way he would turn things inside out or make that which was solid suddenly not solid. But suddenly here he was, this wonderfully dry joke teller. The work that really struck me that day was The Man in the Bowler Hat [1964]. He'd spent months painting a guy in a bowler hat and then,...
Terry Gilliam Film director and former member of Monty Python
It wasn't until I'd seen Magritte's work collected together in an exhibition at the Tate, at the end of the 1960s I think, that I realised just how incredibly funny his stuff was. People walk around these exhibitions in a religious state of awe and I just walked round this one laughing uncontrollably. Until then, I'd always thought of Magritte as having an interesting and intriguing mind – the way he would turn things inside out or make that which was solid suddenly not solid. But suddenly here he was, this wonderfully dry joke teller. The work that really struck me that day was The Man in the Bowler Hat [1964]. He'd spent months painting a guy in a bowler hat and then,...
- 6/20/2011
- by Imogen Carter
- The Guardian - Film News
Stüssy and Marvel have teamed up and brought us a hot new clothing line unlike anything out there. Each company has brought their unique artistic style and branding to the collaboration and the result is a offbeat, fresh take on comic book apparel. Check out the press release from Stüssy outlining the Stüssy x Marvel Project below, along with a peek at the collection!
Stüssy Marvel Series 1 | T-Shirts | April 27th
The first series Stussy x Marvel The Ultimate Teamup will be released on April 27th and combines vintage Marvel characters with definitive Stussy designs. These styles feature the looks from rare and collectible comic books and posters with Marvel superheroes such as Wolverine, Silver Surfer, Punisher, Ghost Rider, Doctor Octopus, Doctor Doom and Captain America.
Artist Series 2 | T-Shirts | May 6th
The second series Stussy x Marvel Special Edition Artist Series will be released on May 6th and features artwork by notable international artists Will Sweeney,...
Stüssy Marvel Series 1 | T-Shirts | April 27th
The first series Stussy x Marvel The Ultimate Teamup will be released on April 27th and combines vintage Marvel characters with definitive Stussy designs. These styles feature the looks from rare and collectible comic books and posters with Marvel superheroes such as Wolverine, Silver Surfer, Punisher, Ghost Rider, Doctor Octopus, Doctor Doom and Captain America.
Artist Series 2 | T-Shirts | May 6th
The second series Stussy x Marvel Special Edition Artist Series will be released on May 6th and features artwork by notable international artists Will Sweeney,...
- 5/6/2011
- by Brandon Johnston
- ScifiMafia
Animate Projects which promotes, supports and maintains a website showcasing British animators has lost its Arts Council funding
The Arts Council isn't due to announce cuts in future funding for another two months, but the axe has already fallen on Animate Projects, which promotes, supports and maintains a website showcasing British animators.
Its funding is gone – despite receiving Arts Council money for 21 years it never succeeded in becoming a "regularly funded organisation", and so isn't in the new round of applications – and it is likely to close down on 1 April, though they will try to keep the website live for longer.
Animate began in 1990 as an Arts Council/Channel 4 project, and was restructured in its present form in 2007 after the sudden death of one of its founders, the award-winning animator Dick Arnall. The artist David Shrigley said:
"Animate succeeded by Animate Projects has consistently facilitated cutting edge animation in the UK.
The Arts Council isn't due to announce cuts in future funding for another two months, but the axe has already fallen on Animate Projects, which promotes, supports and maintains a website showcasing British animators.
Its funding is gone – despite receiving Arts Council money for 21 years it never succeeded in becoming a "regularly funded organisation", and so isn't in the new round of applications – and it is likely to close down on 1 April, though they will try to keep the website live for longer.
Animate began in 1990 as an Arts Council/Channel 4 project, and was restructured in its present form in 2007 after the sudden death of one of its founders, the award-winning animator Dick Arnall. The artist David Shrigley said:
"Animate succeeded by Animate Projects has consistently facilitated cutting edge animation in the UK.
- 1/28/2011
- by Maev Kennedy
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicks On Speed, Dundee
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
- 6/4/2010
- by Robert Clark, Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands -- The Rotterdam International Film Festival's short film prizes were handed out Monday to Roy Villevoye's Beginnings (the Netherlands) and animated films Rabbit by Run Wrake (U.K.) and Who I Am and What I Want by David Shrigley and Chris Shepherd (U.K.). The Prix UIP Rotterdam short film nominee for the European Film Awards went to Meander by Joke Liberge (Belgium). The second edition of the Tiger Awards competition for short film was comprised of 30 films, with the majority having their world, international or European premiere during the event.
- 1/31/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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