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One hundred years on from its release, Nosferatu is still a masterclass in horror.
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These are the 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century, as voted for by 206 critics from 43 countries.
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"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
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"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
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Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Folklore and RTJ4 all make the cut.
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The first photograph ever to feature a human (lower left corner) was this taken in Paris in 1838.
#WorldPhotoDay
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Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy's Anthropoid is one of August's most exciting film releases:
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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
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Twenty years on from its release,
@MissyElliott
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“Song and dance is an inherent part of storytelling for Bollywood… [but] it is not our only storytelling,” says
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2023 has become the “summer of Suits”.
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Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange is among our most anticipated films of 2016:
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Harry Styles’s playful androgyny tells us a lot about gender in 2021.
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The Wire has been voted the greatest TV series of the 21st Century.
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#TVOfTheCentury
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“There are no big answers; there are only small answers in the now, such as the joys of food and friendship.”
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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.
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The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
#WorldPoetryDay
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"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
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The role suits Adam Driver so beautifully that awards nominations should be heading his way.
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Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy's Anthropoid is one of August's most exciting film releases:
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Fifty years ago, Enter the Dragon, one of the most influential martial arts movies ever made, was released.
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The mysterious origins and powerful material presence of Stonehenge have captivated people not just for centuries, but millennia.
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Read the full list of the 100 greatest films directed by women. Did your favourite make the list?
#100FilmsByWomen
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Georg P Salzmann collected 12,000 books, which the Nazis had set out to destroy in their book burnings of 1933. Watch the full film on
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Denis Villeneuve, director of Dune, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival and more, is this century’s greatest science fiction director.
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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.
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Pachinko is “delivered with such artistry and imagination… that it is unsurpassed among recent series”. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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More than a Moomin... The serious artist behind a children's classic:
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Released 34 years ago, Sign O’ the Times has repeatedly appeared on best-ever album lists. Could it be the greatest of all time?
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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.
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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
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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
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These are your 10 favourite dance scenes
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Happy
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Audiences might love it, but The Empire Strikes Back is actually the worst Star Wars film.
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"Until the end, Van Gogh painted in spite of his illness, not because of it."
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It’s a Sin tells the story of the outbreak of Aids in 1980s Britain.
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We sat down with
@tenorkaufmann
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The Piano has been named the greatest film directed by a woman, in our poll of 368 film experts from 84 countries.
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@_storywallah
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We're celebrating
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firsts on
#WorldPhotoDay
, starting with this, the oldest known photo ever, from 1826.
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The legendary Parisian bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, first opened its doors 100 years ago.
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We sat down with
@tenorkaufmann
to discuss his life, music, and the future of opera.
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1971 was a year of phenomenal creative riches in cinema. Now, 50 years on, are movies as good as they once were?
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Some film-spiration for you this evening - which of the 100 greatest foreign-language films is next on your list?
#WorldFilm100
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“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
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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.
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The tiny Bibliomotocarro delivers books to remote Italian villages.
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Every iteration of Bond allows the franchise to reinvent itself – where will it go next?
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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.
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Denis Villeneuve has risen to become one of the 21st Century's biggest, most challenging science-fiction filmmakers, in the space of just a decade.
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209 critics, 43 countries and seven films directed by men called Jean. This is the 100 greatest foreign-language films in numbers.
#WorldFilm100
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"Until the end, Van Gogh painted in spite of his illness, not because of it."
@vangoghmuseum
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Today's the day! Find out who won the top spot in our list of the 100 greatest comedy films:
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The teenage writings of Jane Austen reveal a very different side of her:
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Grace Jones: iconic, unique, and visionary.
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“It was meant to be a seven-minute short film that transformed into a feature film.”
@LovingVincent
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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.
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The rise and rise of Dwayne Johnson, John Cena and Dave Bautista shows that the wrestling ring can be the perfect place to nurture superstars.
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Enheduanna, a Mesopotamian poet, princess, and priestess, was the first author to be named in all recorded history.
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Painted while he was writing A Christmas Carol, it was missing for more than 150 years.
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Starring
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Ammonite is “poetic and suggestive”.
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Including pop bangers, punk rock anthems and a polyglot TikTok hit.
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Mozart has sold more CDs than Beyoncé in 2016... not bad for an artist who hasn't toured in over 200 years!
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Happy
#WorldBookDay
! No one loves books more than us, so here's a thread to celebrate the joy of reading. ⬇📚
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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.
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This weekend’s
@GlastoFest
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@JanetJackson
a welcome opportunity to remind us that she’s one of her generation’s most thrilling and visionary performers.
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A Game of Thrones prequel, an adaptation of
@neilhimself
’s The Sandman, and the return of Industry,
@amycharles
rounds up this month’s unmissable TV.
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Andromeda was repeatedly depicted as white in Renaissance art, despite being originally depicted as a black princess from Ethiopia.
@sophiasgaler
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The model for some of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Lizzie Siddal was an extraordinary and tragic star of the 19th Century.
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