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TOPGUN
Jake Gyllenhaal goes on patrol with the LAPD
Lost in Showbiz
12A
ZZ Top
Beardy surrealists
The Weeknd
Fuzzy feelings
Peter Bradshaw
Ben Aecks CIA comedy
Alexis Petridis
One Directions secret
Celebrity voting
Lost in Showbiz
Democrat celebrities come out to celebrate Obamas victory, but there was little joy over in the Romney camp
By Sam Wolfson
ost in Showbiz is not a fan an a of election weeks. When the n boss of the world is being ng chosen, US news networks rks r take a brief respite from m 24-hour coverage of Twilight Breaking kin ing Dawn to return, miserably, to breaking kin ng news. The closest we got to seeing a celebrity was downing too many shots hot ots of blue state punch in our election on drinking game and briey mistaking ng Ann Romney for Monster-era Charlize lize e Theron. But within minutes of Ohio o being declared, attention turned back ack to vaguely famous people and how w they felt about Obamas re-election. n. Regular viewers of Fox News will be ll e unsurprised to hear that Hollywood d liberals were all over the lamestream am media crowing about Obamas victory. ory. Beyonc drew a Take that Mitches s placard. Girls star Lena Dunham, who had spent the nal days of the campaign paign helping to get out the elusive hipster ter vote, Instagrammed the little black k dress she went to the polls in. Send nd us yours! responded Hu Po. The results werent pretty. But it was Naya Rivera, the cheererleader from Glee, who most poignantly antly summed up this historic second term rm best, tweeting: OBAMA!!!! A BOSS always wins. #ShittedOnEm. Shitted tted On Em this years Yes We Can. Of course, at Lost in Showbiz, theres heres nothing we like more than a sore loser. Especially delicious was Donald Trump, calling for a march on the White House and a revolution in the US, and conservative rocker Ted Nugent, who called voters soulless fools and pimps whores & welfare brats. But we most delighted in Stacey Dash, best known as Chers friend Dionne in 90s teen movie Clueless, whose three-page pdf to US gossip website TMZ made the case not only for Mitt Romney, but for rich people in a tight spot everywhere. She began: President Obama will always be remembered as one of the greatest leaders this United States of America has ever known. However, she was hamstrung by her own considerable income and persuaded by the simplicity
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Beyonc and Lena Dunham had cause to celebrate; porn star James Deen (below) was left feeling blue
of [Romneys] plan to lower taxes. Dashs confusing diatribe suggested she voted for Romney to subvert expectations that just because shes an African American single mother who believes in progressive social politics and thinks Obama is a great leader, she would automatically vote for him as president. In an attempt to heal the wounds of divisive party politics, Dash at least ended with a sentiment that will surely unite both sides of the aisle: Ultimately, I know that what Stacey Dash thinks about who will be the next president of the United States isnt that important in the scheme of things. It sure aint, Mitches. It was a night not just for blue states but blue movies, as male porn stars in
California came to terms with the passing of Measure B, which will force them to wear condoms on set. James Deen, an adult movie star and the most vocal opponent of the law, had already got the news media into a uster before the election. American network ABC was hot under the collar, describing his curly brown hair and soft blue eyes while GQ called him the well-hung boy next door. Good to see theres still thorough research being done in journalism. Deen was in a philosophical mood after the vote, but he did raise one of the consequences of the law, perhaps unforeseen by voters. I am not the correct person to ask exactly what the law says. But the only way that it can be enforced is if somebody actually
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does watch porn. Somebody needs to sit there and either review all the content thats being shot, or they need to sit on set and verify that people are actually adhering to this measure ... That is, as far as I understand, a $52,000-a-year job. There you go, Romney, you could get a new position in government after all.
Naomi Campbell certainly knows how to do extravagance

As you can imagine, Lost in Showbiz gets invited to a lot of supposedly glitzy dos. But for all the proml ises of glamour and A-listers, somehow we always end up in s the function room of a Best f Western drinking paststits-sell-by-date Red Stripe and listening to Kelly Osbourne whingeing. So this week we praise Naomi Campbell for throwing a horrifyingly extravagant bash: a 50thbirthday party for her ance, Vladimir Doronin, that genuinely looks as s if it cost more than the he Olympics. Campbell ew guests out on chartered planes to Jodhpur, where she had rented the Mehrangarh arh Fort, a 15th-century palace that sits 400m m above the city. Party people: Naomi Cambell and ance Vladimir Doronin
The party ran over two nights, with the themes apparently decided by a Bristol uni student just back from their year abroad. On the rst, guests dressed in full Indian regalia bindis included. On the second, they donned tailcoats for a Great Gatsby-inspired black-tie aair. Celebrations included a mammoth reworks display and a performance by Diana Ross (for which she was reportedly paid 500,000). If guests got sleepy, a vintage Rolls-Royce would ferry them to another giant palace, the ve-star Umaid Palace Hotel, where Campbell forked out more than a grand a room. The only thing that marred the decadence was the company Campbell keeps. In her 90s heyday, she would have stayed up for the full 48 with Robert De Niro and Spike Lee. These days, the most high-prole guests included Bob Geldof and Sarah Ferguson. Pictures havent emerged yet of Fergie in her Indian garb, but the laywers who deal with Prince Harrys wardrobe malfunctions are on standby.
Frankie Cocozza masters the art of the sexual metaphor

Next, to poetry news. Lost in Showbiz has spent the week tangled in the vivid prose of Britains most prominent genital wart, Frankie Cocozza. Cocozza, youll remember, rose to prominence on last years X Factor when he pulled down his pants to reveal the tattooed names of eight girls he had shagged on a holiday in Magaluf. He became Gary Barlows favourite contestant a mini Robbie he could scold and control. But things got out
of hand when history repeated itself and Cocozza got cokey. He was kicked o the show and has since spent his evenings sleeping with an array of Z-list reality stars too unfamous to mention. Finally, though, a reformed Cocozza has made a return to his true calling, rocknroll. This week saw the release of his rst single, Shes Got a Motorcycle. This, readers who got more than level 4 in Key Stage 3 English will understand, isnt a real motorcycle, its a metaphor, although for what, Cocozza isnt sure. At various points in the song its used to represent his penis (Ive got a motorcycle, it feels so delightful), her lady parts (Shes got a motorcycle, why wont she let me ride it?) and, in the songs thrilling conclusion, an anthropomorphised Harley-on-Harley tryst (I knew one day Id ll you up, on my motorcycle). WHAT? Lost in Showbiz had hoped that the video, which features Cocozza stumbling around with his knees bent like a tramp singing Wonderwall, was going to be a daydream, with him waking up at a Shoe Zone checkout. But it just keeps going, his vocals whispier than his facial hair, his face crumpling with every strained note. At the end, he rides an IRL motorcycle through a wall of re. Our hopes are raised! But hes ne readers. Absolutely ne.
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Hello Richard! I like your new lm (1). Ooh yes, its very good, isnt it? (2) Its better than I thought itd be. Thats exactly what I thought! I thought I wasnt going to like it at all, but I went with the grandchildren and we had a really good time. What attracted you to Cockneys Vs Zombies? Well, I dont often get the chance to play someone of my age. Ill be 80 in January, so I was playing this silly old fool in an old peoples home. I was having a very nice time because the e sun came out, and I was in a deckchair hair doing bugger all. And then people started shouting Theres a zombie! ! The zombies after you! It was lovely ely for me because zombies are very, very ery slow, so that suits me perfectly. By my calculations, you killed seven en zombies during the lm. Is that your ur highest onscreen kill-count? Yes! Id only killed ve people before re in ... oh dear, what was that? Im just st going to check with my wife ... oh yes, Midsomer Murders! I think I got about out four or ve of them in that. I was a mad vicar (3). Suddenly in the past two or three years Ive popped up to play ay these terrible killers. Its great. There have been a lot of versus lms ms recently. Have you seen any of them? m? Have you seen Monsters Vs Aliens? No I havent. Alien vs Predator? No. Ive got to get hold of that. Strippers vs Werewolves? (4) Bloody hell. Youve been acting for 50 years now. Do you have any unfullled ambitions? Not really. Ive always been one of the few lucky ones. Ive always had d an enormous amount of work. And of course, as you probably know, I suddenly stumbled into Kenneth Branagh and started doing all the Shakespeare stu. The posh stu. That was rather nice. It changed my y entire life. How did you meet Branagh? Youve e worked with him an awful lot (5). Well, my daughter, Lucy Briers, adored ored him when she was a student, and used sed to follow him around and be very
30 minutes with... Richard Briers The veteran actor may be killing zombies in his new lm but dont, whatever you do, call him cool
helpful to him. And then he went and did his season in Stratford and he did Henry V. And my daughter just adored him. She said: Come and have a chat with him. He must remember you from The Good Life. We both went round to the stage door, had a very nice chat and from that came Malvolio in Twelfth Night in Hammersmith. Were you disappointed that he didnt nd a part for you in Thor? I dont think there was anything there for me, really. I dont know. Youd look quite good in a big helmet and a Nordic waistcoat. h Dressed up as some old ninny. Some Dresse extraordinary creature. But, no, he extrao didnt ask. Im rather hurt, actually. Looking back, what have been your Lookin best an worst moments as an actor? best and Its ter terrible. I cant really remember them. The best was when I was at Rada a I did a play as an old man, and a Molire play. It was a very funny, Moli eccentric character, and it was the rst eccent big laugh I remember getting. That was big lau 50 yea ago. Thats the most exciting years thing in the world, to get your rst big i laugh. So that was very good. But the others? Nothing really. Ive just sort of others stumbled along. stumb Ive been reading a lot of interviews be with you, and you always seem to bring y up your dislike of the word cool. yo yes, cool! Well, I dont like it at all. Oh, y think I thin its so stupid. I mean, hardly anybodys cool now (6). Everyones in anyb a shocking state, I think. And everysh ones walking about saying: Cool one man, cool. Thats bollocks, I think. man Whats next on the horizon for you? Wh Not much. A couple of voiceovers. Not much about. In the old ove days at this time of year you did day pantomime, which was hell. pan Was it? Why? mean I mea its awful. The place is full of kids, shouting and screaming. But you could make a living from it. I dont any more. There are thousands of actors And now. A nobody puts the money up well, so most people seem to be very w badly out of work. quite b What a sad note to end the interview Thanks for talking to me. on. Th Thats very kind of you. Have a bloody Christmas! (7) All the best! good C
By Stuart Heritage
Footnotes 1 Cockneys Vs Zombies, co-starring Honor Blackman. 2 The lm has a 69% fresh rating on Rottentomatoes, one better than Dirty Dancing. 3 Deaths Shadow: series two, episode one. He killed a property developer with a sword. 4 The worst ever versus movie, even including Megashark v Giant Octopus. 5 In Henry V, Swan Song, Peters Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, Frankenstein, In the Bleak Midwinter, Hamlet, Loves Labours Lost and As You Like It. 6 Take that, Kanye West! 7 This interview took place on 17 October.
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BROTHERS IN ARMS
Jake Gyllenhaal tells Catherine Shoard how spending time on the police frontline for his new movie helped him and his co-star Michael Pea forge an unbreakable friendship
Michael Pea and Jake Gyllenhaal in End of Watch
t was Jake Gyllenhaals rst day of work on End of Watch when the murder happened. He was incognito in the back of an LAPD patrol car, observing protocol on the midnight shift. An emergency call came through. A drugs bust had gone wrong. Theirs was the second squad to arrive. Gyllenhaal opened his door, and a man was shot dead in front of him. He had ve more months of ride-alongs still to go. I have a whole slew of feelings about that, he says one autumn morning in Toronto, the day after the movies premiere, but it was denitely an awakening. Domestic violence, chasing stolen cars, family disputes growing up where I did in Los Angeles, I didnt see anything of this kind of violence. His Bambi eyes balloon with feeling. Nor this sort of culture. South-east LA is 95% amazing culture, fantastic food, and it was great to be immersed in that world. Gyllenhaal has long been big with the outreach. On his 13th birthday, in lieu of a party, he performed a barmitzvah-like act, without the typical trappings volunteering at a local homeless shelter. His parents director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner encouraged him to take regular summer jobs to grit up his minted beginnings. When he adopted a rescue puppy, he named it Atticus, after Finch. Such determined humility could seem icky; up close, that doed cap is easy to swallow. At a press conference, he bats o queries about his beardy appearance with: I totally respect the question but its very hard for me to talk about hair when I feel like the police ocers I worked with have much more important things to talk p g about. I feel Id be doing them a dis-
service. (In fact, its in aid of a play.) Later, I meet him and co-star Michael Pea, holed up in a hotel basement. Gyllenhaal politely asks if Id mind them jogging round the room to try to stay sparky. Then hes concerned I might be cold. Would I like his blazer? I put it on and explain most of my clothes are being fumigated for bedbugs. He blanches only briey. Oh, awesome! Well, it was a nice jacket while I had it. And my skin was really nice. Pea cackles. Yeah, dude, youll be doing that play like this. He mimes itchy nipples. Gyllenhaal giggles. They stop jogging and laugh harder. Seeing these two together in sync, if not quite joined at the hip is curious. For End of Watchs blue uniforms are a bit of a red herring: this is a cop ick miles more excited by homies than homicide. Those pre-production ride-alongs werent just to see the grisly side of police work, but its camaraderie, too the 12-hour shifts with your best bud, the moonlit heart-tohearts, all that happy yakking. Problem was, when Gyllenhaal and Pea met, they didnt click. Its so weird hanging out with this guy knowing hes going to be like your brother from another mother, says Pea. It puts a lot of pressure on you. David [Ayer, the director] didnt want us to be actors. Hes like: You guys will die for each other. Im like: Oh, shit. How am I gonna do this? We spent so much time together. We were always sparring. And when somebody punches you in the face you realise, like, Im gonna ght! It wasnt like any Hollywood shit; it was really getting down and dirty. In the end, it took ve months of roughhouse research for them to bond. When Gyllenhaal would head home y after the 4am ride-along shift nished,
THE DIRECTOR TOR T DIDNT WANT US RS TO BE ACTORS HES LIKE: YOU GUYS WILL DIE FOR EACH OTHER
itd take me a couple of hours to get to sleep. Youre not really involved. Which makes you feel weirdly even more alone. Which is where Michael and I could connect. We would see things happen and say: well, our job is to observe it and then, absurdly, to fake it. Mike and I will always be close because of that. Pea pipes up. It changes you a little bit when you see a woman who has been smashed in the face and bleeding, and she doesnt want to press charges against her husband. And there was this one incident the crowd were around us and I just didnt know what was going to go o. Thats the one time that we got along. I knew: OK, this movie can work. I knew Jake would stick up for me. Whats strangest here is that it must have been at least partly intentional. After all, Ayer went through an exhaustive casting process, and Gyllenhaal was already on board an executive producer, as well as the lead. Such initial stickiness was forseeable. Both actors may be self-confessed drama geeks, but while Gyllenhaal got his rst driving lesson from Paul Newman, on a racetrack, Pea literally wrestled his way out of the Chicago ghetto (he was a semi-professional who tried out for WWE). And its these divisions that lend the lm an interesting friction. A lot of rehearsal was knowing each others back-story, says Pea. I know his sister well and I met his mom beautiful woman. So, in the car, I was talking to him. And while End of Watch has its own genre spin (the police are the good guys, not the dirty DIs of Harsh Times and Training Day), it is these scenes behind the wheel, before the lm spins o into its plot proper, that mean End of Watch stands out so brightly in a lineup of cop movies. It tackles ethnic dierence head on, and with humour the key promotional clip has the pair sat in the car, Gyllenhaal taking the piss out of the endless quinceaeras his partner must attend, Pea doing the same for a caucasian love of elaborate coee. There are two trailers, one foregrounding Pea, partly in Spanish, the other playing it as a straight Gyllenhaal vehicle that progresses along well-trod tyre tracks (They were the citys top guns ). Their relationship, then, is a careful construct, deftly peddled not just with punters, but the LAPD themselves. It moves them, says Gyllenhaal, because it shows so much of why they love the job and thats the stu in the car. My best friends in the world, we express our love for each other through
a whole lot of shit-taking. Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, thats whats really important. Agrees Ayer: Cops really love taking the piss out of each other. Ive shown the lm to ocers all over the county and they all say the same thing: nally somebody got it right.
uch close ties between lmmakers and their subjects are rare. Ayer, an ex-Navy ocer with a voice like a submarine and a build to match, has constructed a career with the police, even if it has been in ctionalising them rather than serving with them. Pea, meanwhile, is in awe of his real-life sibling, who works in a correctional facility in Chicago. For Gyllenhaal: the lm changed my life. I have three really close friends from the production process. The movie to me almost feels like an afterthought. Such fraternity is also potentially concerning. End of Watch is a terric lm, and, to be fair, our heroes do happen upon some remarkably grisly nds on even the most innocuous housecall, but it will also function as a persuasive recruitment video. Did Gyllenhaal ever worry being embedded with the LAPD might just mean they were in bed with them? Yes and no. I dont think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing but I also think what
we discover along the way is really important. I think what we were trying to stay true to was the authenticity of what we saw, not the romantic version. Ayer, too, slightly sidesteps the question, though hes quick to assure that the LAPD had no editorial veto. So why is the force so well-represented on lm? Its such a unique department. When they get involved in scandal its in a big way. I think its the visually coolest agency. They have that classic look they look like the police. Their demeanour and style; the famous command presence of their ocers. Everyones always struck by it. Those guys are intense! Theyre so condent. Theyre like military. He sighs with appreciation and swigs a Coke. We Americans greet our servicemen as they come back from overseas and we shake their hands and thank them. Not the case with cops who go into harms way. Why? He pauses. I think people are intimated by the police. At the end of the day, its a secret society. Its not a place where regular citizens get to see behind the facade. He doesnt think theres any other reason people feel wary? Absolutely I do believe there is a bit of psychological protection. They can read my mind; they can see my sins. I have pot in my car. I took a Zanax. All our petty faults are writ large. Once you speak longer with Ayer, seeds of scepticism seem to sprout. He
wouldnt mind branching out to make a romcom, he says. There are all sorts of limits to the LAPD. Without them, society would be a fucking disaster. With them they can sorta hold the line clean of the mess. But its just triage. Yes, he says, policing is inherently ballsy; and its true that the women in the force as well as the lm must mold themselves to be more macho. Its aggressive. Are you willing to kill somebody? If you answer no then dont be a cop. The actors, though, arent so sure. They stand up tall in that hotel basement, and they ponder earnestly, eager not to let their colleagues on the squad down. Its about putting on an act, says Gyllenhaal. Whatever your sex. Cops go into a black neighbourhood and respond dierently than if theyre in a Hispanic neighbourhood. They adapt in a way Ive rarely seen in any other profession besides acting. Thats maybe the only similarity between our jobs the ability to observe human behaviour and imitate it. Theirs is for survival and ours is absurd in comparison. But maybe brotherhood is misleading. Its a big family. I know that does sound cliched but when you get to its authenticity, its anything but. Times up. I hand back Gyllenhaals blazer and he slips it on, faint fear creasing the grin. A week or so later I read the rst reviews of his play, just opened on Broadway. None seem to mention any unexplained scratching. They all talk about the beard, though.
We were trying to stay true to the authenticity of what we saw Pea and Gyllenhaal; (top left) director David Ayers
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End of Watch is out on 23 November
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e thought: Lets have a stage the shape of Texas. In dark glasses, 10-gallon hat, cowboy boots and of course long beard, ZZ Tops bassist Dusty Hill is remembering the time the band decided to take their home state to the world or as much of it as they could reach. There was a screen in the back that looked like the desert. Then, lets get some animals. We had a longhorn bualo that came up on hydraulic lifts before and at the closing of the show you dont want it up there during the show. Bad idea. Javelina [skunk pigs], which are mean little guys. And a coupla rattlesnakes in a Plexiglass dome. You could put your foot on top of that glass. This was 1976, and the Worldwide Texas Tour, one of the greatest follies in rock history. There were six or eight semi-tractor trailers to carry the gear and they were painted in a desert scene, and they were done in order, Hill continues. They had to travel down the highway in a certain order so the scene went from one to another. He reects for a moment, inscrutable behind his shades, before observing, gently: If we ever have a problem, its not comin up with ideas. Its stoppin us. There may well be plenty of people for whom the notion that ZZ Top are a band of ideas is as ridiculous as calling Skrillex one of our more sensitive singer-songwriters. Are the Texan trio not just the American answer to Status Quo? The band with two members with beards and get this one without, but it doesnt matter because his name is Beard? Well, maybe. But theres a whole lot more to ZZ Top. Actually, hows about
this for a notion: ZZ Top are in fact an absurdist modern art project whose chosen medium is the 12-bar blues. I like that, says Billy F Gibbons, singer, guitarist, and other beard. Jim Dickinson, our favourite crazed record producer out of the Memphis area, called me aside and he said: Yeah, ZZ Top. Youre like the Dal of the Delta. Ill take that. A high compliment in my esteem. The absurdism is there in ZZ Tops obsession with the ephemera of US pop culture: the Cheap Sunglasses and TV Dinners of their songs. Its there in the matching stage uniforms. Its there in the music, too, in the way they started assimilating new-wave inuences from 1979s Degello album, in the way their comeback single earlier this year was a cover of a Houston hip-hop song. Its there in their surrealist approach to the world (when Gibbons was once asked why their 1983 smash-hit album Eliminator was their rst record without a Spanish title, he explained it was in fact called El Iminator). Most of all, the absurdism is there in Gibbons whose every word appears to be the setup to an elaborate practical joke. Even his dressing-room table backstage at Merriweather Post Pavilion in suburban Maryland where ZZ Top are playing a festival date at the personal request of headliner Jack White has its concession to oddness: a personalised memo pad headed: BFG. Friend of Eric Clapton. It was kind of a prank, Gibbons says. I went in to get a business card printed up at the local Kinkos. And when I came to collect it they showed me the sample, and said: Shall we run with it? Do you approve? I said: Ill take it. OK. Thats Joke No 1. Joke No 2 begins with
Gibbons being asked to record a part for a solo record by Sam Moore, and leaving his card on the mixing desk in case he was required to return not knowing Clapton was due in the studio the next day. Fast-forward to Erics seven nights at the Royal Albert Hall. His minder tracked me down and said: Eric would like to see you. I saw the show. On the exit, he said: Were going to see Eric. Fine. Go down to the bowels of the Royal Albert Hall, there was a small door, and one small sofa, and Eric was sitting there. He said: I have two requests. I understand the Gibson guitar company is making a tribute to your famous Sunburst. Can you get me in the queue to get one? Im pretty sure. And whats the second request? Can I have one of your business cards? Busted! He laughs delightedly. Gibbons is steeped in the blues but also in art. When ZZ Top were on hiatus in the late 1970s, before Degello, he went to Paris to pursue it. I had some buddies from Houston that had started this consortium of new-day surrealism more than just a tip of the hat to the Dada guys. We were doing Xerox art
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and it was not so great, but the eect If you took an image and then printed it out and then re-imaged that, the more generations you did the degradations started to set in. It was real vivid. From a technical standpoint it was just degradation, but from an artistic standpoint it was an enrichment of a visual experience. He set himself the challenge of bringing that same combination of degradation and enrichment to the blues. Then punk came along and oered him the means to do so, though not without help from Sir Freddie Laker. In September 1977, Laker launched his Skytrain a budget-priced ight between New York and Gatwick. When Gibbons saw the ights were
launching for $99, he resolved to take his English father and Irish mother to the British Isles. So we go and we drop down when this punk explosion was happening, he says. One thing I can assure you: I remain open to the eects of the energy events. That really got my attention. Earlier this year, ZZ Top released their rst album for nine years. La Futura is the rarest of things from a veteran band a record that stands among the best theyve done. Its guitars roar and growl, Gibbonss voice a toxic gargle in counter to Hills higher, truer yell. And it begins with the years most unlikely cover version: I Gotsta Get Paid, a version of DJ DMDs crackdealing hip-hop anthem 25 Lighters. As with so many things in ZZ Tops career, it owes as much to chance as to design. They were short one song as the sessions for La Futura came to an end. Gibbons cast his mind back to 1996, when the bands studio was being refurbished and instead they were recording in a place used by the local hip-hop crews. The hip-hop guys wanted to know: Hey, how do you
do this guitar stu ? But we wanted to know: Well, how do you program this drum? We like the backbeats! The two energies came together. Simple, to the point. No, were not going to be a rap or hip-hop group by any stretch of the imagination. What we do is, were gonna make it ZZ Top. Bluesy, yeah. But its all Houston ghetto. Next week, ZZ Tops 43-year stint as one of the worlds most recognisable rocknroll bands will be honoured in London, when they pick up the Living Legends gong at the Classic Rock Magazine awards. Watching them on stage in Maryland, you see the aection in which they are held by very dierent groups of people of very different ages. If there are people who admire us and what we do, thats a huge compliment, Hill says. As long as it doesnt get too crazy. People are all the time telling me stories: they named their son after me, or more than likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo. Or had their rst sexual encounter when a song of ours was playing. Thank you for the compliment, I really wish I had been there.
If we ever have a problem, its not coming up with Ideas
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La Futura is out now on Mercury. A longer version of this article appears at guardian. co.uk/music
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he last time we see Emmanuelle Riva in Amour, shes lying pale and lifeless on a double bed, petals strewn about her head, the lights turned down low and the shutters closed. The last time we see Jean-Louis Trintignant, hes the walking wounded, racked by grief and barely there. Michael Hanekes acclaimed new picture oers such an uninching portrait of the grubby business of dying focusing on the nal days of an elderly French couple that it precludes all talk of second acts or miracle cures. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, theres no such thing as a happy ending. All of which makes it curious to nd the lms stars abruptly reunited in the airy limbo of a Paris hotel, just south of the Arc de Triomphe. Theres Riva, waxing lyrical about poetry as she pours out the tea. Heres Trintignant, twirling his walking stick in one hand and gesticulating with the other; taking issue with this and that. The two look so hale its disconcerting. Meeting them is like attending a private screening of an unlikely sequel. Amour 2: Life Goes On. Riva is 85 and Trintignant is 81 and they both trail long, illustrious pedigrees. The former is indelibly stitched into French lm history thanks to her
IN THE NAME OF AMOUR

French actors Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant talk to Xan Brooks about their roles in ook the acclaimed new Michael Haneke laimed Hane lm, the problem with Cannes and e their lifetimes in cinema fetimes
breakthrough role in Alain Resnais Hiroshima Mon Amour way back in 1959, though she has also made lms for Georges Franju and Jean-Pierre Melville. Trintignant rose to fame as the gauche young pup who pursued Brigitte Bardot in 1956s And God Created Woman. He went on to star in the freewheeling A Man and a Woman, then shot the gorgeous My Night With Maud for Eric Rohmer and The Conformist for Bernardo Bertolucci. In the early 1990s the pair cropped up in Krzysztof Kieslowskis acclaimed Three Colours trilogy. Riva played Juliette Binoches mum in Blue and Trintignant starred as the judge in Red. Thats right, we did, says Trintignant, still twirling his stick. And actually there a a lot of similarities are Kieslowski between Kieslowsk and Haneke. In fact, Id put them in the same the family as Bergman and Tarkovsky. They all hav the same have vsky. cent vision of generous, magnic the world. think Haneke Yes, but I t happy, more smiis more hap ley, adds Riva. Kiesdid lowski di not strike me as a very happy man. I confess that con Haneke does not especially peciall strike me that
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way either. This, after all, is the director who put Isabelle Huppert through the wringer in The Piano Teacher, foreshadowed the rise of nazism in The White Ribbon and douses the lights altogether with Amour. There was I thinking he might be a little austere. No, no, not austere, insists Trintignant. Strict, yes, but never austere. I mean, the subject matter is obviously intense. But we had a lot of fun along the way. Riva rushes to chip in. So much laughter, so many funny things. I remember once, when I was playing dead, I had to stay quite still. But when the crew went to look at the monitor, they came back laughing. I said, Whats so funny? and they told me that my toes were wiggling. My toes! I didnt even know they could see them. So I had to do the whole scene again and concentrate very carefully. I think my feet have a will of their own. Rest assured that Rivas waggling feet do not feature in the nal cut of Amour a lm that sticks largely to the same book-lined apartment, keeping pace with its characters as they move inexorably towards the exit door. Hanekes picture is gruelling, moving and nally transcendent. It scooped the crowning Palme dOr award when it premiered at this years Cannes. In so doing, it thrust its actors back under the oodlights, though it turns out they were not won over. What I dont like about Cannes is the competition, the competing with each other, having to defend yourself, says Trintignant. I dont like that. Its not the directors fault, its how the festival is arranged. One lm wins, one lm loses. But you cant compare works of art in that way. Do it with cyclists, not with lm-makers. I dont particularly like it either, says Riva. The crowds, the photographers shouting at you. So many ashes going o. Its crazy, it blinds you. Turn one way! Turn the other way! Whats that about? Were not performing monkeys. I know that some actors love it they live for it. But I dont like it. Haneke doesnt like it either. Oh, Haneke doesnt mind it, says Trintignant. He likes getting the pat on the head. Riva points out that she rst went to Cannes with Hiroshima Mon Amour and Trintignant with And God Created Woman. Her feeling is that Cannes was a little simpler, a little sleepier, back then in the 1950s, although Trintignant cautions against turning too nostalgic. Even the great years, he says, only tend to look great with the benet of hindsight.
You cant compare works of art. Do it with cyclists, not with lmmakers
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Amour is released in the UK on 16 November and in the US on 19 December.
I remember when My Night With Maud was shown at Cannes in 1969, he says ruefully. It went down very badly. Before the screening they played a short lm that had a scene in a church and showed a cat that came in and wandered about. And the audience liked that. They went, Ah, how nice, a cat. Then we presented My Night With Maud. We also had a scene in a church but this time everybody in the audience burst out laughing because they remembered the cat from the earlier lm. Wheres the cat? they shouted. We want the cat! And they didnt pay any attention to our lm because they were still thinking about the cat. He twirls his stick in exasperation. I know that today My Night With Maude is seen as a great triumph. But back then it was a disaster. Trintignant basically sees himself as having retired from screen acting. He made an exception for Haneke, he
says, because you dont say no to a lm like Amour. But he suspects thats it; hes nished with movies. Riva, for her part, remains more game. If by chance people would still oer me roles, Id still like to do them. But if not, thats OK. I love life, she says. I love life to death. If I dont act in another lm, who cares? Im 85, it doesnt matter. Im still alive and that feels great. There was an advert I saw once, Trintignant says. It was an advert for cinema and it said, If you love life, you love cinema. Ah, sighs Riva. Yes. Well, I dont think thats true, he says. If you love life, youre not going to go and sit in the dark in some cinema, are you? Why would you want to do that? Go and live your life instead. Interview complete, he drains his tea, seizes his stick and prepares to do precisely that.
bel Tesfaye, a 22-year-old Toronto-born singer of Ethiopian descent, doesnt show his face on the cover of House of Balloons, the rst of three mixtapes he has released under the name the Weeknd. The image, nonetheless, serves as a self-portrait. Described simply, it sounds like simple fun: a bathroom full of balloons, with a naked woman in the bathtub. But, shot in a strangely dingy black and white, blurred, and with just one dehumanised breast and a pair of arms sticking out awkwardly from behind those balloons, the eect is creepy. Listen to Tesfayes narcotised slow-jams and the photographs message is clear: partying is an existential experience, sex is fraught with alienation, and everything registers as unreal and unsettling. It might all sound like a massive downer and would be were Tesfayes voice not one of the most compelling of those driving a new strain of R&B. This is a mode of address based not on sleek condence, but rather a lack of it. If Tesfaye and his cohort are going to seduce you, theyll do it by telling you how much they are hurting and how many feelings they are feeling: on Twitter and elsewhere the Weeknd suxes his name with xo as in, a kiss and a hug. There are sex and drugs, lots of both, but scant pleasure to be found in either. Whether over booze as on Kendrick Lamars Swimming Pools (Drank) or assorted pharmaceuticals, as on Frank Oceans Novacane (fuck me numb/love me none), the ambivalence runs deep and pervasive. Even famously Adderall-happy rapper Danny Brown confesses on xxx: I try to escape it, hoping drugs numb a soul. This new mode is also about a blurring, or extension of the genres sounds, as well as its sensibility. The names might be a bit silly (for instance, PBR&B, PB as in Pabst Beer beverage verage of choice for the American hipster), but r), the music is quietly radical, with w ical, work by Miguel (who just released the rightly acclaimed Kaleidoscope Dream) evidence of an ongoing, mutually enriching dialogue between indie and electronic musicians and R&B artists. Frank Ocean, who last summer on Tumblr posted a deeply moving testimony of falling in love with a man, saw Channel Orange, his major label
Abel Tesfaye, AKA the Weeknd. Below, left to right: Drake, Miguel and Frank Ocean Rolling Stone, released last month. Looking hungover or drugged or emotionally spent, he wearily meets the cameras gaze as though it is a lover who has failed him too often. Fittingly, it was Drake the seigneur of self-loathing, lotharioed confessionalism (Ive had sex four times this week, Ill explain/Having a hard time adjusting to fame) who eectively broke Tesfaye, tweeting endorsement for his fellow Canadian in March last year by quoting lyrics from the Chris Isaakindebted Wicked Games (Bring your love baby I could bring my shame/ Bring the drugs baby I could bring my pain). Interest reached such a pitch that when Tesfaye released his third mixtape, Echoes of Silence, last December, his website crashed under the weight of trac. Since then, he has been asked to remix Lady Gaga and Florence & the Machine and has just nished touring with the latter, who joked she didnt want to: burst that mysterious bubble of his so ... Ill just say Ive never actually seen him hes a hologram! Two weeks ago, on stage at Manhattans Terminal 5, Tesfaye sold out the 3,000-capacity venue, playing to a crowd of mainly teenage couples in an atmosphere of sweat, hormones and marijuana smoke. As he launched into his swooning High For This and sang trust me girl/you wanna be high for this, everyone unavoidably was. His demeanour was at odds with his narcotised online aesthetic: irrepressible to the point of puppyish, he looked wholesome in a puy black ski jacket and performed with the showmanship and stage-ease of an X Factor shoo-in, and greeted the encore-demanding screams with a clowning, exaggerated victory march of a re-entrance. MTV has proclaimed him the best musical talent since Michael Jackson hyperbole given some credence by D.D, an uncanny cover of the King of Pops Dirty Diana. And, under one YouTube clip of Valerie, a new track that will feature on Trilogy, the top comment reads: Michael Jackson never died ... On Thursday, it was announced that the Weeknd will be appearing on Later ... With Jools Holland at the end of this month, but Tesfaye still isnt speaking to the press. Perhaps, like Jackson, he is genuinely shy, truly the troubled soul he paints in his lyrics. Or perhaps his press-aversion is a calculated eort to sustain his mystique. Whichever, hopefully he will enjoy his fame well enough, but not well enough to soften any of that creatively protable angst.
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Tesfaye first showed his face in a video for Rolling Stone
debut, chart at No 2 in US and British markets a huge commercial success that resonates with the re-election of a gay-marriage-supporting, African American president. Like Ocean, Tesfaye has earned a fanbase by releasing music online for free songs built around a fogged, crepuscular production to set o the cr keening perfection of his voice. These ke shadowy sounds were, until recently, sh matched with shadowy presentation: ma Tesfaye withheld his for months Tes But, identity. But like Ocean, his output has led to a major l Next week, label deal. N will Universal w release Trilogy, an album of remixed, rema emastered material from his existing work, plus three wo new songs. Tesfaye n will no longer be an w enigma. e He rst showed his face in the typically monoty chrome video for ch
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Argo
Dir: Ben Aeck. With: Ben Aeck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston. 120min. Cert: 15
Ben Aecks new movie as a director is an amazing real-life caper straight out of Ripleys Believe It or Not! It tells the true story of some imaginative derring-do on the part of a brilliant and unorthodox CIA agent called Tony Mendez. This is a watchable, enjoyable lm, with some hilarious and nail-biting moments, but it sets its face disconcertingly against satire and mischief with a nal lurch into schmaltzy, liberal-patriot piety. It is as if Aaron Sorkin, in his most solemn mood, had suddenly taken over screenwriting duties for the nal 10 minutes. The movie is, in eect, based on Mendezs own testimony; as with all spies tales, were entitled to our pinch of salt, but his story is just so incredible it compels belief: a startling piece of declassied secret history about a CIA-sponsored bogus lm. The moral might be that theres no business like showbusiness, no showbusiness like the movie business and you can pretty much rely on everyone uncritically kowtowing to its glamour and prestige. In 1979, six American ocials managed to scramble out of the US embassy in Tehran, just as it was overrun by a pro-Ayatollah mob who brutally held the remaining personnel hostage: an ordeal for them and for Jimmy Carter, whose presidency bled to death in the ensuing media furore. The six escapers holed up in secret at the Canadian ambassadors residence, and back at CIA headquarters, the crisis was handled by Mendez, the agencys top exl guy an expert in exltration, or getting Americans out of enemy territory. He is played by Aeck himself (pictured), a stolid, unashy performance: a single shirtless moment is his only self-indulgence. Mendez is shown persuading his superiors to bankroll a crazy, but inspired scheme: he will y into Iran with seven fake Canadian passports one for him and one each for his six compatriots claiming to be a Canadian movie producer, scouting locations for a new sci- thriller called Argo. The plan is that these terried prisoners will then wander brazenly around with him and some Iranian culture ministry ocials, posing as producers and cinematographers, pretending to size up the scenery through letterboxed ngers etc, and then they all go home together on a Swissair ight. Mendez makes it look realer than real by getting all the right documentation and hiring real backers
Showbiz exit
With its bogus lm shoot cooked up by the CIA to rescue Americans trapped in Tehran, Ben Aecks comedy is smart but it takes an unfortunate last turn
By Peter Bradshaw
Hollywood makeup technician John Chambers (John Goodman) and veteran mogul Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and they stage a real reading of a complete, preposterous script in an LA hotel, duly reported on by Variety. In short, theyre doing everything that real producers would do, making a real movie. The movie is never going to get made but so what? That happens all the time, as well. What can go wrong? Argo is partly based on a Wired magazine article called The Great Escape, and that lm is a potent inuence. Audiences will be waiting for an equivalent of that awful moment when the cunning German says: Good luck! in English to Gordon Jackson, and without thinking he says Thank you! It also feels like a postmodern spin on pictures like The Producers and Wag the Dog, with practitioners of the showbiz black arts creating tinselly illusions. Playing the wisecracking mogul, Arkin surely drew on Dustin Homans legendary impersonation of Robert Evans, and the scene showing his pile of possible screenplays surely alludes to the script ordeal of Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock. Part of what makes this headspinning story believable is the fact that it pans out in an oddly uncomplicated way. If it were ction, there would be more tense encounters with English-speaking Iranian ocials, and they would be more suspicious and knowledgeable. And of course, if it were ction, the movie Argo would actually get made and be a massive hit in Iran. This lm is an entertaining, belated footnote to a larger story about a more pervasive and far-reaching Argo eect. If Encounter magazine ever carried lm news, it might well have taken a supportive interest in this sci- adventure: this journal was famously found to be backed and, in eect, created by the CIA, and the historian Frances Stonor Saunders, in her book Who Paid the Piper?, showed how the agency was ghting the good ght against communism through the arts generally. The movie begins by outlining the CIAs involvement in deposing the leftist Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mosaddegh and installing the shah. An Argo leader? Well, the emphasis turns out to be rather dierent, leading to what I felt was a tonal oddity: a gobsmackingly bizarre adventure that nally has to be rescued from irony and subversion and treated with uplifting solemnity, as if to repudiate any sense that what we have been watching is a comedy. But a comedy is basically what it is, and a good one.
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A Romanian cinema linchpin returns with a daunting existential drama, writes Peter Bradshaw
Aurora
Dir: Cristi Puiu. Starring: Cristi Puiu, Clara Voda, Catrinel Dumitrescu. 184min. Cert: 12A
Six years ago, Cristi Puiu made a lm that came to be regarded as a jewel of the Romanian new wave: The Death of Mr Lazarescu, a tragicomedy showing an old mans nal hours in hospital. Now Puiu has returned with a substantial new feature lm rst shown at Cannes two years ago entitled Aurora, and by substantial I mean dauntingly long: a little over three hours. This is a formidable, enigmatic piece of work in many ways; with control and technique deployed with absolute condence. It is an opaque existential drama, and Puiu himself stars as Viorel, a middle-aged guy who is apparently at the end of his tether, having endured humiliations at work and at home. And now he has got a gun. Viorels accumulating Weltschmerz nds expression in this slo-mo 180-minute explosion: I found myself thinking of Douglas Gordons art installation 24 Hour Psycho. He remains impassive, unemotional actually, his only emotion is repeatedly and disturbingly to take peevish oence at people taking a tone with him. Disconcertingly,
intriguingly, nothing is made entirely clear; a formal explanation from Viorels own lips is oered only very late on, and that is incomplete. A partial view is all were ever oered. Well, that is partly the point. The drama of theatre, cinema and the law court tends to imply that human actions and motivations are clear and legible, whereas in real life they are not. But for someone who has never shot anyone before (we assume) Viorel certainly takes to it like a duck to water. Of course, he could be a stone-cold killer. Or he could be a rather quaintly imagined intellectualised vision of a killer. Like Corneliu Porumboius 2009 Police, Adjective, this has a key scene in a police station, with similar ambient, banal conversations. This does not have the humanity and accessibility essibility of The Death of Mr Lazarescu, but it cu, certainly has a dark, lowering presence ng on the screen.
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The Sapphires
Dir: Wayne Blair. With: Chris ODowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy. 103min. Cert: PG
Wayne Blairs The Sapphires is s a likable, uneven feelgood
movie, based on real life: all about a winsome foursome with a lot of soul. Our heroines are a singing group of Aboriginal women in 1960s Australia, who begin their musical lives belting out countrynwestern in tatty bars to the disdain of nose-wrinkling white folk. Their nal lineup is Gail (Deborah Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Kay (Shari Sebbens) and Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell). They are on the road to nowhere until they meet a boozy, chaotic Irishman called Dave, nicely played by Chris ODowd, a former cruise-ship entertainments director turned promoter who sees his chance with these talented women, persuades them to try classic American soul and gets them a gig touring US military bases in Vietnam. Its an amiable lm with some great m musical moments and the classic growing success montage grow showing them on the road in south-east Asia. On music, identity and race, the mus lm has a big beating heart in the right place. However, the supposed p place. How chemistry between ODowd and chemis one particular Sapphire doesnt p quite zz convincingly, and some of his big emotional som speeches are a little uncertain. spe But the lm shows ODowd is Bu a real big-screen player, and r the Sapphires themselves th are great value. PB
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Peevish Cristi Puiu in Aurora
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Alps
Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos. With: Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris. 93min. Cert: 15
Yorgos Lanthimos made a brilliant breakthrough with his disturbing movie Dogtooth in 2009, a lm that spearheaded a Greek new wave, including Athena Rachel Tsangaris equally bizarre Attenberg, in which Lanthimos appeared in an acting role. Yet his new work Alps is for me a disappointment, descending into posture and mannerism: the bizarre behaviour, dysfunctional relationships and alienated sex now look like tired ingredients. The Alps of the title is the name of a weird group of people, whose self-imposed mission is to impersonate dead people for a month or so after their death to help grieving families get over their loss. Prominent among them is a young woman played by Aggeliki Papoulia (who was the elder daughter in Dogtooth); it seems she has a very specic psychological reason for wanting to do this, and a very specic deceased person in her own life whose place she is trying to ll. It is a world of strange people whose strange behaviour is somehow rendered less visible and interesting because the whole world is strange as well. The surreal eect is contrived, and any supposed satirical comment on modern Greece is not especially compelling. Lanthimos is such a distinctive lmmaker and nothing he does is without interest but this is a misre. PB
the citys sole black representative. Stephen Gyllenhaal crafts a couple of rousing election-night sequences, but cant quite make the ending resonate unless we see Cogswells story as the rst, faint stirrings of the Occupy movement. Mike McCahill
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two outstanding. The narrative-short food groups are amply covered: twist-in-the-tale jobs (Douglas Harts Long Distance Information has splenetic Peter Mullan forming a surprising telephonic bond one Christmas), pun-lms (Dan Sullys short, sweet urban legend The Ellington Kid; Romola Garais straining Scrubber, about a woman juggling dogging with OCD), zeitgeisty star vehicles (Chris Foggins agreeably cosy Friend Request Pending, with Judi Dench as a lovelorn silver surfer). The picks are William Jewells teasing, stylish feature-in-waiting Man in Fear, which conjures a fatalistic universe around paranoiac Luke Treadaway and no-nonsense copper Tim Healy; and Matthew Holnesss A Gun for George, a tremendously assured, funny-sad portrait of a pulp writer in decline, which envelops great lines in retro detail worthy of Holnesss beloved Garth Marenghi. A most encouraging selection. MM
Mothers Milk
Dir: Gerald Fox. With: Jack Davenport, Annabel Mullion. 98min. Cert: 15
Here Comes the Boom
Dir: Frank Coraci. With: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Charice, Henry Winkler. 105min. Cert: 12A
Grassroots
Dir: Stephen Gyllenhaal. With: Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore. 98min. Cert: 15
It sank without trace in the States, yet this true-life ballot-box saga proves very likable, if a little Sorkin-lite. At its heart are two young men trying to reclaim Seattle politics from the pros: Grant Cogswell (Joel David Moore), a self-righteous, somewhat bratty lefty gradually transformed into a sinceresounding alternative, and Phil Campbell (a thoughtful Jason Biggs), the former journalist who raised a small volunteer army to help sta the campaign. Adapted from Campbells memoir Zioncheck for President, its alert to both the romance of the stump (likeminded, passionate souls on late-night yposting missions) and the political nitty-gritty: crucially, Cogswells genial opponent (Cedric the Entertainer, unusually subtle and eective) was
The latest Sandler-enabled vehicle for Kevin James is a knockabout knock-o of last years Warrior: Jamess unlikely biology teacher turns MMA ghter to save his schools cutback-threatened music program. The Wedding Singers Frank Coraci retains an endearing fondness for funny-faced bit-parts, but its fundamentally formulaic in construction and mediocre in diocre execution. Basically its a pretext for ts James to take further hits to the plums, coupled to some half-meant children-meant are-our-future sentiment. MM ment.
The Joy of Six
Dirs: Chris Foggin, Romola Garai, arai, Douglas Hart, Will Jewell, Matthew Holness, Dan Sully. an, With: Judi Dench, Peter Mullan, Luke Treadaway. 73 min. Cert: 15
A half-dozen shorts care of distributor Sodas das New British Cinema programme, all diverting, ting,
Edward St Aubyn has co-written this movie adaptation of his Bookershortlisted autobiographical novel Mothers Milk, directed by Gerry Fox. The result looks a bit like television, though it isnt bad: sparky, boisterous, cynical, a little self-conscious but more grownup and literate than most new British movies. Jack Davenport makes the most of a juicy lead role as Patrick Melrose, a cynical, uppermiddle-class Englishman deeply angry with his ageing mother, played by the now late Margaret Tyzack, in her nal role. She has, in her dotage, agreed to gift the familys beautiful Provenal house to a dodgy guy called Seamus Dorke (Adrian Dunbar) Do as the HQ for his new age therapies. Patrick is taking his family for one h nal holiday in this idyllic place, for th a last painful interview with his i mother, who is in a nursing home nearby, and to come to nearb terms with the fact that since the birth of his two children, o the spark of love has left his marriage. The humour is marriage brittle, British and throwaway, but with a tang of real wi poison. poiso There is a sharp cameo cam from Diana Quick, Patricks malicious Pat mother-in-law. PB mo
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My Brother the Devil
Dir: Sally El Hosaini. With: James Floyd, Fady Elsayed. yed. 111min. Cert: 15
First-time feature director Sally El Hosaini makes a bold and terrically condent debut, hitting her stride with ith this urban drama set in east London. Its well made, well acted by a largely non-professional cast and seductively photographed by cinematographer David Raedeker a muscular and heartfelt lm with Stephen Frearss My Beautiful Laundrette somewhere in its DNA. James Floyd plays Rashid, whose hard-working parents came to the UK from Egypt. He has got involved in drugdealing and gang culture, a world in which supposed tough guys neurotically stay in their ends. His brother, Mo (Fady Elsayed), hero-worships his older sibling, and to Rashids unease is on the point of neglecting his schoolwork to join him in the drug trade. Rashid entrusts Mo with a courier mission that goes wrong, resulting in a spiralling gang confrontation, but at the same time, Rashid himself is developing new ideas and new alliances. Its an athletic, loose-limbed piece of moviemaking, not perfect, but bursting with energy and adrenaline. PB
the creature-feature alive for more than three decades from 1953s The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms to 1981s Clash of the Titans with his facility for stopmotion beasties of all kinds: giant octopi, revivied skeletons and alien reptiles, along with the more conventional Trexes, gorgons and the like. The esteem
with which he is held is evident in the queue of premier-league directors who line up to pay homage: James Cameron, Tim Burton and Peter Jackson among them. Harryhausen emerges as a charming, likable pioneer, a mood helped along by the adoring nature of this prole. Andrew Pulver
People Like Us
Dir: Alex Kurtzman. With: Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Pfeier. 115min. Cert: 12A
This glib tosh must be Transformers scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orcis idea of heartfelt grownup work: a baggage-freighted, dramedy about a corporate fraudster (Chris Pine, smirking) learning about responsibility via the single mom (Elizabeth Banks, miscast) his late record producer father abandoned. Bankss discreet tattoos convince as much as Pines encomiums to the Clash, and Kurtzman and Orci have a funny idea of what we might identify with: the lms irrelevant to anyone who doesnt have severe daddy issues pertaining to the man who discovered Kajagoogoo. Nothing Like Us would have been more accurate. MM
Ray Harryhausen: Special Eects Titan
Dir: Gilles Penso. 90min. Cert: PG
Ray Harryhausen is the genial 92-yearold who, virtually singlehandedly, kept
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By Alexis Petridis
The secret is safe

The scale of their success may still be baing, but on One Directions new album it at least sounds as if they made an eort
One Direction
Take Me Home
SYCO
Its not often you encounter a new album that you can genuinely describe as phenomenal, but the adjective ts One Directions Take Me Home. If it maintains the quintets current upward trajectory, they have every right to call themselves the biggest group in the world. Given that, in the US, its lead single, Live While Were Young, had the biggest opening-week sales gures for any non-US act in history, it seems almost inconceivable that it wont. This is remarkable stu, not just for a runner-up on The X Factor who can usually expect about 10 minutes in the spotlight before the siren song of Pontins becomes deafening but for a UK boyband. The last time anyone broke an artist similar to One Direction over there, their mentor, Simon Cowell, was still prosecuting his business out of a converted lavatory in an NCP car park. And yet, from the outside, their success looks a little confusing: why, out of the serried ranks of manufactured British hunks, has the US chosen to clasp cheeky-faced Harry Styles to its bosom? If youre not an 11-year-old girl or the long-suering parent of one, their oeuvre will remain a mystery. You might know their breakthrough hit, What Makes You Beautiful, but could you hum the title track of their debut album, Up All Night? Can you oer any intelligence regarding the Australian Souvenir Edition bonus track Na Na Na? Close examination of Take Me Home might unlock One Directions secret. Certainly, anyone who views their mentor and his Syco organisation as pantomime villains doesnt have long
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Ty Segall Youre the Doctor Because sometimes only two minutes of noisy, righteous, screw-you garage rock will do.
to wait for a bwah-ha-ha moment. Live While Were Young rips o the intro of the Clashs Should I Stay or Should I Go? so brazenly it even includes the sound of a plectrum stroking a guitars muted strings three times between blasts of the ri. In an act of nosethumbing contempt, it changes literally one note, presumably to avoid having to pay the Clash any royalties. Its hard to know whats more galling: the degree of brass-balls cynicism on display, or the fact that the result is actually quite good. It introduces Take Me Homes signature style: a peppy, synth-bolstered take on early-80s newwave pop, heavy on clipped rhythms and chugging guitars, which is at least an improvement on the ersatz R&B that was once the grim lot of the boyband. It also introduces a recurring lyrical motif. If a lot of Take Me Home is concerned with pitching harmless romance at its pubescent audience in a style thats time-honoured to the point of being hackneyed, other parts of it comprise more of an all-out, crotchlevel blitzkrieg than you might expect. Live While Were Youngs protagonist is tireless in his determination to get some, as the song romantically puts it, while Last First Kiss deals with divesting a recalcitrant girl of her maidenhood: I want to be the rst to take it all the way. You do wonder what parents might make of it. Still, as anyone whos read some of the more frenzied One Direction-related Twitter feeds will tell you, its tame stu compared with what some weenyboppers are dreaming up of their own accord.
Elsewhere, the material is of variable quality. The chorus of Kiss You is hard to dislodge from your brain, but Rock Me is pretty excruciating, as is perhaps inevitable from a song in which teenage boyband members attempt to strike a note of sepia-tinted nostalgia. Do you remember the summer of 09? they inquire, begging the response: Yeah, do you? You must have been about eight. Ed Sheeran contributes two songs, in a pretty canny move on the part of One Directions management: aligning them with an artist whose fans believe him to be the diametric opposite of a manufactured boyband. Certainly, the forthcoming single Little Things is noticeably more sophisticated lyrically and emotionally than anything else here. That may sound like damning with faint praise, but theres something quite touching about its insistence that aws are what make a person unique. Alas, his other contribution, Over Again, sounds as if he might have shed it out of the bottom of the bin when he heard One Direction had the chequebook out. It isnt bad as albums by boybands go, and doesnt have the awful aura of contemptuous thisll-do common to so much product overseen by One Directions dark lord and master. Nor, though, is there anything to transcend its target market a hit so undeniable its appeal will extend far beyond the girls so nutty with lust that they took it as a compliment when Niall Horan called them a shower of cunts. To anyone else, the mystery of One Directions success or at least the sheer scale of it remains as opaque as ever.
On the web Maddy Costa reviews the Lumineers and John Fordham on Norwegian jazz stars Moskus guardian.co.uk/music
Soundgarden
King Animal
MERCURY
When Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell unveiled his Timbalandproduced R&B solo album three years ago, he insisted that reuniting the 90s grunge kings would risk tarnishing their legacy. However, with baed fans mostly of the opinion that the grunge icons crunk opus did just that, Soundgarden are indeed back. Still, their rst new album since 1996 makes a surprisingly good st of plugging back into the sound that made them the moodiest and heaviest of the Seattle grunge bands: anvil-heavy ris, crunching collisions of punk and hard rock, and psychedelic explorations. With storming opener Been Away Too Long sounding like a manifesto, 52-year-old guitarist Kim Thayil reels o blistering solos with a juveniles glee. Grunge-era nostalgia mixes with classic rock and, on the eerie Rowing, experimental mantras. Cornells reference to being born again on Black Saturday may raise more than an eyebrow, but the rocker-father has powerfully traded twentysomething darkness for middle-aged uncertainty and fear. His confession on beautiful slowie Bones of Birds that Time is my friend well it aint, it runs out really is quite touching. Dave Simpson
gallery in Turin, and, aptly, is the kind of contemplative sound-cloud that could be titled Music for Galleries. In fact, Lux owes something to his Music for Airports; it similarly glides along, rarely demanding your attention, until a splash of trumpet, three seconds of mandolin or a sudden guitar chord interrupts the tranquillity. Of the four sections, the last is most striking: the pace slows a bit and a glockenspiel chimes in, creating a stately procession akin to classical music. But its only striking compared with the rest of the album, on which piano gures endlessly loop and divide and theres nothing below the surface. Eno now makes iPad apps, allowing anyone to construct Enoesque soundscapes; chances are, a dedicated amateur could come up with an ambient piece that has more heart than Lux. Caroline Sullivan
A very personal kind of misery Crystal Castles
than its parts. This time, they appear to be making music for montage sequences. The pace is overwhelmingly sombre, the lyrics dwelling on ageing and death and loss it mentions winter so much that you might wonder if Michael Fish has been drafted in as lyricist. The Carpenter isnt a total dud, because the Avetts are so skilled with a melody, but the plain-speaking has turned to clunkiness youll search hard before nding a more horrible couplet this year than this one from Paul Newman Vs the Demons: Truth beyond truth and by our design/ It is very ne, like Newmans wine. But how are his salad dressings, fellas? Michael Hann
Crystal Castles
III
FICTION
The Avett Brothers

The Carpenter
UNIVERSAL/ISLAND
Brian Eno
Lux
WARP
Brian Enos rst solo album since 2005 is a 75-minute wash of keyboards and strings nominally divided into four parts, though its so seamlessly soothing that its a struggle to distinguish one segment from the next. It grew out of a sound installation he made for a
What a frustrating band rating the Avett Brothers are. others Not for renouncing the uncing hoedowns of their early f independent releases t you cant holler your ller love for ever, naturally r, but for being capable of g touching brilliance lliance without ever r sustaining it. . Their last album, I and d Love and You, u, contained a heartstopping ng gem in its title tle track, whose e plain language and ge unembellished hed music added up to d something greater
Listening to Alice Glass describe Crystal Castles third album doesnt exactly get you in the mood for party jams. Oppression is a theme, in general she begins, before adding: begi It feels like the wor is a dystopia world where victim dont get justice victims and corruption prevails. corrupt Achieving such a laid-back, A Achieving cheery vib involved the c cheery vibe band trading in the tools tradi (keyboards, FX pedals) used (keyboard on I and II in order to start I afresh w with a new palette of sounds. And yet the sou most aecting songs mo on III dont sound like a band raging lik at the outside world, a but rather experib encing a very e personal kind of p misery. Sad Eyes m is a case in point, reappropriating EDM re stadium-trance sta into a mournful
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lament: My sad eyes, you cant disguise. Witch House is an obvious inuence, and you could question whether the former chip-tune terrorists are still as ahead of the curve as they once were. It hardly matters when they can come up with stu like Child I Will Hurt You, a dream-state lullaby that is both beautiful and unbearably sorrowful. Tim Jonze
glorious extended lift-o into the clouds of Va-e-r with a plate of waes, Smalhans is a veritable feast of grin-inducing danceoor treats. Alex Macpherson
Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream The latest new R&B action gure to check Iris DeMent Sing the Delta A rst album of new material in 16 years, and worth the wait Godspeed You! Black Emperor Allelujah! Dont Bend! Ascend! Also back, nearly a decade after an indenite hiatus
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Heritage
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Rhodes entwine with growing intensity on Ouidah; Freedom Dance sounds like a Scoeld band playing hi-life; Farana has a stabbing hip-hop feel; and Glaspers long, evolving Fender break on the hooky Bayyinah conrms what a central presence he occupies in this music. John Fordham
Sonny Rollins Trio

Live in Europe 1959
SOLAR
Lindstrm
Smalhans
SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND
Earlier this year, cosmic disco gurehead Hans-Peter Lindstrm made the rst real misstep of an otherwise awless career with Six Cups of Rebel, an overstued, wacky mess of an album. Either hes got the experimentation out of his system or hes clearly keen to put it behind him: just nine months later comes Smalhans, a concise return to core Lindstrm danceoor values: chunky disco basslines, wave upon wave of blissed-out, arpeggiated melodies. Not that its merely a retreat to his comfort zone: Smalhans contains some of Lindstrms most playful work, plausibly a result of roping in noted disco-prankster-genius Todd Terje for mixing duties. Vos-sako-rv pitch-shifts wildly and ludicrously until the nal emergence of its ri feels like a lap of honour; Eg-ged-osis darts here and loop-de-loops there, an exercise in perpetual motion. Each track is named after a traditional Norwegian dish; while theres nothing that would directly connect, say, the
Theres more to this world-jazz encounter between African and American sounds than its melliously ethereal, borderline-smooth vocals rst suggest. Beninese guitarist/vocalist Loueke (pictured) has established a ke unique identity (one that endeared him ue to Herbie Hancock) from overdubbed rbie creations of evocative African-choral ions textures spliced with a guitar sound res that joins the jazz styles of Pat Metheny oins or John Scoeld to the owing hn phrasing of a kora. This set features ing plenty of all that, but the personnel y here add a lot more. Robert Glasper produces and plays, er Gretchen Parlato adds hen vocals, and in bassist s, Derrick Hodge and ck drummer Mark mer Guiliana, ana, Loueke has ke a rhythm thm team that can sound ound like a drum and bass ass band at one moment and an ent ambient outt at ent another. Loukes guitar her. and Glaspers Fender
On this this set of live trio recordings from March 1959, the perfectionist virtuoso Sonny Rollins is at a crossroads, established as a star after his 50s albums, such as Saxophone Colossus, but just about to make his famous three-year withdrawal to a solitary life of practice on the Williamsburg Bridge. On bass is the excellent Henry Grimes, while Pete La Roca, Joe Harris and Kenny Clarke share the drumming. The same tunes inevitably recur, but Rollins improvisations are so wilfully intuitive that theyre always dierent. St Thomas gets the full treatment of sweet-andsour, mid-range ponderings and thunderous swinging, while he sounds as tremulous as a clarinet on Stay As Sweet As You Are and surprisingly Ornette Colmanesque on Oleo. The long-unavailable material from a nal, pre-sabbatical Aix-en-Provence gig, with Clarke on drums, is an explosively swaggering, time-bending shouldercharge through WoodynYou, But Not for Me and a lyrical then roaring Lady Bird. The sound quality throughout is pretty good. JF
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 2 no 3 and Op 106, etc

Sviatoslav Richter
ICA CLASSICS
Debussy: Pellas et Mlisande

Maurane/Danco/ Etcheverry/ Philharmonia/ Inghelbrecht
TESTAMENT, THREE CDS
An invaluable document of an exceptional recital Sviatoslav Richter gave at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1975. I doubt that any of us lucky enough to have been there will forget the experience, and this CD taken from the BBCs recording of the concert conveys the special electricity of the occasion and the power of Richters playing more vividly after 37 years than anyone might have dared hope. The two great sonatas that frame this all-Beethoven programme may date from opposite ends of his composing life, yet Richters account of the C major Op 2 No 3 seems to contain the germ of what developed 24 years later into the unparalleled scope of the Hammerklavier Sonata, Op 106. But the titanic scale of the playing is always balanced against moments of svelte beauty and breathtaking technical crispness. After three Bagatelles from Op 126, Richter launches into the Hammerklavier, and the tension of the rst movement is remorselessly ratcheted up. The scherzo is then an almost throwaway relaxation, the slow movement a gorgeously expansive hymn, and the nale when it arrives, fugue and all, is immense in its grasp of the musical complexity every voice in the fugue brilliantly characterised, the shape of the whole thrillingly conveyed. If any single disc is going convince sceptics of why so many of us regard Richter as the greatest pianist of the second half of the 20th century, then its this extraordinary 80 minutes of music-making. Andrew Clements
rated among the younger generation of British composers. The earliest piece is the bewilderingly discursive Man Shoots Strangers from Skyscraper, inspired by a Buuel lm; the most recent his double concerto, Wonderful TwoHeaded Nightingale, in which the solo violin and viola are bound into a symbiosis, from which they try to extricate themselves. Theres also Or Voit Tout en Aventure, settings of medieval French and Italian lyrics; in them, as in the other works here, Bedfords ability to place telling, simple ideas in arrestingly imaginative contexts is brilliantly displayed. AC
Greatest pianist of the second half of the 20th century Sviatoslav Richter; Katy Carr (below)
For many admirers of Debussys only completed opera, the recording Roger Dsormire conducted in Nazioccupied Paris in 1941 has never been surpassed. Yet between the wars it was Dsir-Emile Inghelbrecht, a close friend of Debussy, who was regarded as the pre-eminent Pellas conductor. Inghelbrecht never made a commercial recording of the work, but in 1951 he conducted a studio performance with the Philharmonia in London that was broadcast by the BBC. His cast includes a fascinatingly complex Golaud from Bertrand Etcheverry, and Camille Maurane and Suzanne Danco as Pellas and Mlisande. All three performances are wonderfully detailed, but its Inghelbrechts conducting thats remarkable, worlds away in its almost 19th-century grand manner from the cool objectivity of Dsormire. The mono sound is perfectly acceptable and every word is crystal clear. AC
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Bedford: Or Voit Tout en Aventure, etc

Morton/Power/Scottish Ensemble/Ensemble Modern/Edwards/Ollu/ Booth/London Sinfonietta/Knussen
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Luke Bedford was one of the winners of this years Ernst von Siemens Foundation Composers awards, which included the funding of this disc. Compiled from concert recordings, it makes a valuable introduction to his luminous soundworld, and goes a long way to explaining why he is so highly
Anyone who has heard the soprano Anu Komsi sing Sibeliuss Luonnotar in concert, often as here with her husband Sakari Oramo conducting, will recognise the epic intensity and theatricality she brings to this miraculously concentrated Kalevala setting. That mythic power contrasts sharply with what precedes it in this collection, all pieces that more accurately justify the e discs title, Coloratura. These include Reinhold Glires Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, the Bell Song from Delibes Lakm and a very brisk account of the Queen of the Nights second-act aria from Zauberte. Komsi negotiates the shamelessly orid id vocal writing with matter-of-fact brilliance, musical good taste and not a hint of self-indulgence. Theres also John Zorns La Machine de lEtre, his 2000 monodrama based on a drawing by Artaud, whose vocal challenges she e takes on with aplomb. AC
Katy Carr has a mission: to publicise stories of the Polish forces during the second world war. In doing so she has created one of the most passionate and intriguing concept albums of the year. Born in Nottingham to a Polish mother and Anglo-Scottish father, she became fascinated by the era after meeting Kazik Piechowski, who escaped from Auschwitz in 1942. The album opens with her talking to him about his w escape, and with the exuberant and es edgy Kommanders Car. There are ed other stories about partisans, a bear ot who became a Polish forces mascot, w and theres a powerful lament for an those sent by the Soviets to camps in th Siberia. Carrs emotional songs are Si backed by bravely original arrangeba ments featuring her own piano and m ukulele work, plus strings and brass, uk and deserve to be heard far beyond the an Polish community. Robin Denselow Po
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he hype is hard to believe. This game, says the hype, is going to be one of the all-time great things. Right up there in the top 10, ever. Maybe just behind the multiple orgasm, but somewhere in front of both the fresh bacon sandwich and the feeling of brand new socks. This, insists the hype, is the game the worlds been waiting for: the war game to end all war games. Its hype that, surely, nothing could ever possibly live up to. Least of all a mere rst-person shooting game. Right? For the few remaining uninitiated, Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Xbox 360/ PS3/Wii U/PC) is the latest instalment of the biggest franchise in town. Its predecessor, Call of Duty: Black Ops, sold more than 23m copies, and the sequel will be looking to eclipse it. For a franchise that began with three games set in the familiar history of the second world war, and made its name with the transition to modern warfare, Black Ops II, which fast-forwards the action to 2025, is a fairly radical departure from what came before. The story centres on the apocalyptic machinations of a messianic Nicaraguan super-terrorist, the mysterious Raul Menendez, and the attempts of troubled special forces badass David Mason the son of the previous games protagonist to track him down. Which, unfortunately for Mason, and very fortunately for us players, involves having to kill a few hundred people in various locations across the world, and, in ashback missions, across a sizeable chunk of the past 50 years. Plus a lot of other cool stu besides and not all of it violent. The second mission, for example, begins with Mason and his Navy SEAL buddy dropping from a helicopter to a jungle clitop on a stormy night in Burma, and leaping o the clis in batlike wing-suits to y, through a series of lush ravines, to a ruined temple with a large mercenary army camped outside. Thats not a cut-scene. Thats how you, the player, begin the mission: ying. From there, the assault on the temple is a showcase of the futuristic settings new tricks. Among them invisible enemies using cloaking devices disabled with EMP grenades, dog-like patrolling sentry drones, hackable heat-seeking cannons and the millimetre wave scanner, a rie sight that shows the outline of enemies on the other side of walls. Where previous games were tightly plotted action blockbusters cinematic but entirely on rails Black Ops II oers the player choices with a real eect on future missions and the outcome of the campaign. If theyd been courting
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the pretentious gamer demographic, they could have called it Postmodern Warfare. The other major change is the shift to scorestreaks instead of killstreaks, a variation on Modern Warfare 3s system. Rather than calling in air support after carefully racking up kills, players are encouraged to get stuck in with objectives and work together. The multiplayer maps are the usual mix of bloodbath-friendly bottle-necks and wide open snipers playgrounds, with a couple of early stand-outs. Cargo a Singapore dockyard complete with moving crates on cranes ensures guaranteed non-stop action, while Express an LA bullet train station has a nasty surprise in store for any player daft enough to loiter on the tracks when the ground starts rumbling. Factor in a bigger-than-ever return for the beloved Zombies survival mode, full, free access to the competitive Elite network, and new levels of customisation, variety and replayability, and Black Ops II may just about be bold and badass enough to live up to that impossible hype. Multiple orgasms better watch out.
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When Luck launched on HBO in 2011, expectations were high. After all, this horse-racing drama was written by David Deadwood Milch, directed by Michael Mann and starred Dustin Homan and Nick Nolte. Nine episodes later, it was abruptly cancelled with only one episode of the second season lmed. The reason? A third horse had died on set. With animal rights activists incandescent, HBO had little choice. Milch, who owns, runs, rides and bets on horses, was devastated. He talked of how impossible it would have been to lm without using real horses, and of how that nal death was a freak accident unrelated to lming or racing. Most of all, he talked about his love of both horses and horse-racing, and his sorrow that people would think he cared little for the animals. No racetrack has stricter protocols than [the ones] we imposed in our care of the horses, he told New York magazine. If you spend your life caring for horses, its not because you dont like horses. Its because you love horses. On the surface, Luck is the story of mobster Chester Ace Bernstein, played by Homan. Hes just out of jail and working a complicated long con on the men who put him there. From the start, audiences are thrust into a claustrophobic world with little concern for whether they understand what a claiming race is (when the horses running are for sale) or how a multiple forecast bet works (sorry, still cant help). Whats the story with us? a member of a trackside gambling syndicate asks their de facto leader, the
pessimistic Marcus, as they count the spoils from an against-the-odds victory. Well, he replies. I suspect in the long run, the story is we all go broke. Luck, driven by Milchs passion for his subject matter, is more complicated than that. Plotlines are fragmented, with Bernsteins story often seeming peripheral to the racetrack action. Yet it grows in condence, marrying Manns muscular direction with Milchs staccato rhythms to create a richly detailed, entirely convincing world. The trainer Escalante, inscrutable in the rst episode, is one of the most relatable characters by the last; you start to care, desperately, whether the gambling crew will manage one more big win; and Bernstein is revealed not d as a vengeance-driven gangster but as ut a complicated man who nds himself mself aging and increasingly adrift in world where he once knew the rules. Most of all, for all its interest in racings chancers and charmers, Lucks ucks heroes are the ones with four legs. . Asked by his doctor: Do you have e someone you can talk to? Marcus s replies: A horse. When Ace meets ts Claire, who works on a programme me allowing prison inmates to care for or retired thoroughbreds, she tells him: im: Ive seen people profoundly changed nged simply by being in proximity to horses. orses. And in the rst episode, we see the usuhe ally contained Ace tentatively reach out ch to touch the racehorse he has bought. ght. The nal episode centres on the he Western Derby and all those human man hopes, dreams and desires that rest on est its outcome. But we care more about bout the two rival horses, Pint of Plain and n Gettin Up Morning. Fittingly, when hen that episode ends, it is with a shot ot not of the main characters but of the eventual Derby winner magnicent in ent victory, relaxing in his stable. Sarah Hughes
Above left: Dennis Farina and Dustin Homan in Luck. Below: Petula Clark
What a great idea to let the star do the talking in Petula Clark: In My Own Words (Radio 2). Clark has one of those clear, engaging voices and a knack for storytelling thats a world away from having someone else reading a script, however well. There were minimal contributions from others, pointing out how successful she has been: Paul Gambaccini noted that Clark is the most successful British vocalist in US chart history, with 15 top-40 singles in a four-year period. No one has even approached that, he added. But mostly it was just Clark herself telling her remarkable story. She explained where her unusual rst name comes from. Auntie Mabel and Auntie Alice wanted me to be named after them, she said. When this became a family squabble, her father stepped in and invented the name Petula. She recalled the oddness of being a child star, and working right through her adolescence, when everyone else wanted to keep her as young as possible while she wanted to grow up fast; whil boys were strictly o-limits. On holiday boys in Port Ta Talbot one year, though, she renamed herself Christina and found herself a b boyfriend: He bought me an engagement ring in Woolworths. engage saw him again, but he was I never s Everything was vividly told cute. E and sparkling, both the anecdotes sp with starry names (I found myself s under a piano with Sean Connery) and recollections of her childhood. re Quite why Clark isnt a Dame really is a mystery after hearing this excelmy lent, well-produced documentary. w Women, success and rewards Wom theme on Group Therapy was a t Radio (Resonance FM), where a panel of guests ponder listener confessions. This week conf was about a woman with impostor syndrome, feeling im like a fake despite career success. fa A psychologist, comedian and psychol executive coach spoke with presenter Jen Kerrison, noting how common Kerris the womans feelings are. Its a likable woma format: a bit more fun than Radio 4 might make it, but still insightful. ma
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irstie Allsopp says shes helping people turn their houses into homes, with a bit of vintage inspiration, their own bare hands, and that little bit of homemade magic. Kirsties Vintage Home (Channel 4) its called, and shes starting o with Amber and Colin, a young couple from Edinburgh, who live, like anyone with a baby, in chaos. Cut to the end of the show, and their living room has indeed been transformed into a beautiful oasis of 1960s chic. The replace has been torn out, the carpets ripped up, theyve got rid of some of their less successful furniture, got some nice new stu in, new curtains too. And cool Scandinavian string shelving. The whole place has been tidied up, decluttered. It looks brilliant. Most of it seems to have been decided on, and chosen, and done, by Amber and Colin though. Maybe she gave them some advice, but as far as I can tell, Kirsties input has been more about some of the smaller details rather than the stu thats actually made a big dierence to their at. So what does she do? Well Amber and Colin come down to London to her vintage workshop. Kirsty gets a man called Junior in to show them how to make their own cool concrete table lights. Well, they dont really make their own cool concrete lights, they help Junior to make his. They mix the concrete a bit, which is poured into the mould that Junior brought along. When its set, Junior does all the complicated light tting bits. I dont think Amber and Colin can really claim those lights as theirs. They are cool, but I cant see myself doing them. I dont have a special vibrating table for one thing. A woman called Zoe then helps them customise a 60s sideboard by stencilling a yellow pattern at one end. This is upcycling apparently, through screen printing. I like the sideboard (Amber got it online, nothing to do with Kirstie
All in the detail Kirsties Vintage Home help. Maybe well just buy one, not the right spirit I know ... Right, so Kirsty needs to get properly involved herself. She shows us round some 60s houses, which is interesting. And she takes Amber and Colin to an antiques fair in Newbury, where she helps them nd a yellow German vase and some blue glass balls. Shes got some handy tips take a shopping list but go with an open mind and dont be afraid to touch things. Plus the results of a survey theyve had done ash up on the screen. Like 80% want to shop smart for vintage and antiques. What does that even mean? Are the remaining 20% not interested in vintage or antiques, or are they just happy to shop stupid? Perhaps with a closed mind, or too scared to touch? A baing survey to be honest. Finally Kirstys going to pass on one of her own craft skills to Colin. Shes bought a couple of cardboard letters, available from all good craft stores, C for Colin, A for Amber. Plus an ampersand, to join them, romantically. And now theyre spray painting them, red, and yellow, and a bit of both for the ampersand. And thats it, they are now brightly coloured works of pop art, she says, grati-inspired sculptures that will look supercool in their sitting room. Really? Like a DIY Banksy? Forget the bloody quilt, Im doing that. Theyre there, on the top shelf, in Amber and Colins living room, for the nal reveal A&C obviously, rather than C&A which would look too much like the logo of old clothes retailer. Well, Amber and Colin are nice people, they couldnt really not have them there, with Kirsty coming round to tea. The moment shes gone though I reckon theyll be following Ambers new mantra (if you dont love it, get rid of it), and A&C will be going where they belong, in the B.I.N.
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or Zoe). Im not sure the yellow pattern improves it. And another woman called Lisa helps them make a quilt. No complaints about the quilt. Colin designs the fabric himself. Lisa shows him and Amber how to cut out the squares, iron the seams, pin and sew the sections together. They cut out birds, applique them on. Even Kirstie gets involved, does a few stitches of her own. They add wadding, then weave it all together on the family heirloom ... oh sorry, no, it is now a family heirloom, my mistake. Little Betty will one day inherit it. Perhaps well do a quilt in our house, which looks quite a lot like Ambers and Colins inside, before rather than after. It does seem like a lot of work though; Amber and Colin take weeks to complete theirs, and theyve got expert
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David Attenborough is alive. Given all the celebrations of his lifes work, you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. He was in the oce the other day though I saw him, looking very well.
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Friday 09.11.

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COVER TODD HEISLER/NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX/EYEVINE

On the web Participate in these important debates guardian.co.uk/lostinshowbiz

Naomi Campbell certainly knows how to do extravagance

Frankie Cocozza masters the art of the sexual metaphor

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PHOTOGRAPH GEOFFREY SWAINE/REX FEATURES

Michael Pea and Jake Gyllenhaal in End of Watch

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PHOTOGRAPHS SCOTT GARFIELD; PA

End of Watch is out on 23 November

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If we ever have a problem, its not coming up with Ideas

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IN THE NAME OF AMOUR

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PHOTOGRAPHS BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

Amour is released in the UK on 16 November and in the US on 19 December.

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SOUNDS AND SENSIBILITY

Tesfaye first showed his face in a video for Rolling Stone

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Alice Glass says Crystal Castles third album is about oppression

PHOTOGRAPH PAMELA LITTKY/NME/IPC

The F&M Playlist

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THIS WEEK PETER ENJOYED

a period of Twitter silence on Wednesday morning from Ann Coulter

Great value Deborah Mailman and Chris ODowd in The Sapphires

Wayne Blairs The Sapphires is s a likable, uneven feelgood

Peevish Cristi Puiu in Aurora

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Misre Alps (above); My Brother the Devil (below)

Here Comes the Boom

The Joy of Six

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h Glib tos ier Pfe e Michell Like Us People in

My Brother the Devil

Ray Harryhausen: Special Eects Titan

Dir: Gilles Penso. 90min. Cert: PG

Ray Harryhausen is the genial 92-yearold who, virtually singlehandedly, kept

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The secret is safe

The biggest group in the world One Direction

THIS WEEK ALEXIS LISTENED TO

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A very personal kind of misery Crystal Castles

The Avett Brothers

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Reviews Pop, jazz, classical and world

Sonny Rollins Trio

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 2 no 3 and Op 106, etc

Debussy: Pellas et Mlisande

Bedford: Or Voit Tout en Aventure, etc

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