"The great thing about reading is that it turns human experience into a kind of object that you can look at and turn over," says
@MichaelRosenYes
#TextualHealing
"Fiction is an incredible outlet to the world because it allows you to spend sustained time with people and in places that you would never see otherwise," says
@fbhutto
#TextualHealing
@hayfestival
Based on the PlayStation mega-hit, about a man and a teenage girl travelling through the US during a zombie apocalypse, this HBO show is a remarkable achievement, writes
@StephenPKelly
The Wire has been voted the greatest TV series of the 21st Century.
In a poll of 206 TV experts from 43 countries, nearly half of all voters put the show in their top 10 and almost a quarter of those polled ranked it in first place.
#TVOfTheCentury
The BBC’s online film festival,
#LongShots
, has returned for its second edition.
There are 13 documentaries available to stream on
@BBC_Reel
now, and you can vote for your favourite.
"We cannot live without a book." Antonia La Cava has transformed his three-wheeler into a mobile library for the children of rural Italy. Watch the full film on
#BBCReel
Princess Mononoke was conceived by director Hayao Miyazaki following his growing despair at the world.
@StephenPKelly
speaks to
@neilhimself
about the life, legacy and tumultuous journey of bringing this masterpiece to the West.
“Stranger Things 4 masterfully balances the trauma of teenage years with the literal horrors of the parallel dimension the Upside Down,” writes
@amycharles
.
#StrangerThings4
Announcing
#100FilmsByWomen
, BBC Culture’s 2019 film poll. Over the next few days we’ll be counting down the 100 greatest films directed by women, as chosen by critics around the world. Here are numbers 100 – 81.
Drill, a controversial offshoot of rap, has attracted widespread attention since its inception. But the sound heard across the globe today is markedly different from that of the early Chicago artists.
“When we have dark days, small pleasures can be like stepping stones across the void, to remind you that there is something good, and there is something happy in the world,” says
@frankcottrell_b
#TextualHealing
@hayfestival
The Wire has been voted the greatest TV series of the 21st Century.
In a poll of 206 TV experts from 43 countries, nearly half of all voters put the show in their top 10 and almost a quarter of those polled ranked it in first place.
#TVOfTheCentury
We felt it was time to direct the spotlight away from Hollywood and celebrate the best cinema from around the world, here are the 100 greatest foreign-language films, in full.
#WorldFilm100
“When we have dark days, small pleasures can be like stepping stones across the void, to remind you that there is something good, and there is something happy in the world,” says
@frankcottrell_b
#TextualHealing
“I always think that whatever movie you’re doing, there’s a potential that it’s the last movie you’re ever going to get, and so I don’t want to end my career on a ‘transitional’ movie,” Robert Pattinson tells
@NicholasLBarber
In Search of Lost Time by Proust is often wrongly assumed to be impenetrably complex. 100 years on from its publication, we argue that it’s a universally appealing, rewarding read.
When Star Trek travelled back to 1950s New York, and tackled racism head on, it was a key moment in the franchise, and paved the way for greater representation within it.
Abdus Salam’s Nobel Prize-winning work was instrumental for the discovery of the Higgs boson, but his story has largely been forgotten by the country in which he was born.
Starring
@BajpayeeManoj
and
@priyamani6
, The Family Man “embodies a basic tenet of life for some middle-class Indians… while remaining compulsively watchable”.
We have a winner! In a major new BBC Culture poll, launching today, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has been voted the greatest children's book of all time by 177 experts from 56 countries around the world.
This weekend’s
@GlastoFest
set gives
@JanetJackson
a welcome opportunity to remind us that she’s one of her generation’s most thrilling and visionary performers.