Dan Vyleta 's Pavel and I, Michel Gondry 's Be Kind Rewind
Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the cultural highlights of the week.
Brief Encounter
The Kneehigh Theatre Company stage their own version of the film Brief Encounter in the cinema in London鈥檚 Haymarket where the film first opened.
Brief Encounter is at The Cinema on the Haymarket in London.
Be Kind Rewind
Mos Def stars in a new comedy from Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) as a video store clerk who gets in a pickle when his best friend Jerry (Jack Black) becomes accidentally magnetized and erases all the tapes in the shop. The two friends are forced to replace the stock with their own DIY camcorder versions of the films.
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Tate Modern鈥檚 new exhibition charts the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figures in early twentieth-century art - Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Francis Picabia.
Mad Men
This American TV series is set in a Madison Avenue advertising agency in the 1960s and is written by Matt Wiener, who created The Sopranos. The central character is Don Draper, an account executive who is trying to figure out the best way to sell cigarettes just as the link between smoking and cancer is making newspaper headlines.
Pavel and I
This debut novel by Dan Vyleta is set in Berlin during the freezing winter of 1946 and follows the exploits of an American GI, a German street urchin, and an enigmatic prostitute as they struggle to survive both the cold and the looming Cold War. Pavel Richter, an American soldier who remained in Berlin after the war, is shocked when his friend Boyd White shows up at his door with a dead German midget. After agreeing to help Boyd hide the body, Pavel and his friend Anders are thrust into the middle of a conspiracy that runs deeper than they could ever imagine.
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