Arthouse Reviews: The Arthouse Oscars
In Arthouse’s first ten months it’s screened some wonderfully innovative films, not least the ambitious Boyhood with its unique and ground-breaking treatment of the passing of time; Inarritu’s Birdman which used daring camera techniques to create a stream of consciousness magical comedy; the funny, clever and strange Frank featuring Michael Fassbender with a huge papier […]
Art in the House: Paul Stephenson
Statement I live and work in London. After studying in New York I began painting outside in the early 2000’s. In 2010 I went into a Bonhams Old Masters sale, bought a 200 year old oil painting and set about erasing it. My work is concerned with erasure, creative destruction, censorship, and how images are […]
Arthouse Reviews: Inherent Vice
Before you book your ticket at Arthouse for Inherent Vice here’s what you have to do. Bake yourself up a humungous batch of Mary Jane brownies, take them in with you and start munching. From the moment his dodgy ex (a fantastic Katherine Waterston) appears in her Country Jo and the Fish T-shirt and as […]
Arthouse Reviews: Selma
It’s difficult to find a superlative that hasn’t been used to describe David Oyelowo’s performance in Selma, Ava DuVernay’s biopic of Martin Luther King, so perhaps the only word left is just superlative. Which makes it all the more incomprehensible that he wasn’t nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. The film is about the […]
