Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...jonathan.derbyshire@ft.com...
...Any Frankenstein is only as good as its monster, and Jonathan Goddard is one of the greats: a brilliantly sustained, richly detailed portrait....
...At the centre of his new, considerably bolder outing is the actor’s variation on the rugged outdoors man who finds himself, like John Wayne in many of his roles, humanised by a woman and/or child....
...With her cropped hair, sandals, denim skirt, and her manifestly scarred introversion, she seems reduced by calamity to the barest rudiments of a self....
...The 21st-century apex of narcissism and esoteric weirdness comes with a permanently self-filming “lifestreamer” going into frantic meltdown, and Belle Delphine, a pink-haired YouTube specialist in ahegao...
...Created by Jonathan Nolan (brother of Christopher), along with his fellow Westworld showrunner and wife Lisa Joy, it’s an original story set in the same nuclear-devastated universe established in the 1997...
...Author Jonathan Haidt makes the case that, for the generation who went through adolescence after 2009 and with smartphone in hand, the advent of social media and gaming has disastrously “rewired childhood...
...How could a shy, talented young south Londoner become a rampaging and eventually self-destructive monster of ego?...
...The film, empathetic as it is, highlights at once the intensity of Dugdale’s convictions and the complex instability of her self — a consistent theme in the fiction films of Molloy and Lawlor (Helen; Rose...
...But the director of Eastern Boys and 120 BPM avoids memoirist’s self-absorption by making his alter ego Thomas such an oddly fragile presence, a semi-absent watcher on the sidelines....
...Excerpts from Shorter’s opera Iphigenia, which reimagines the Greek myth as a tale about the transformative power of self, ended the first half....
...Massively documented and celebrated as both artist and cult icon, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo might not seem to merit a new screen study — particularly after Julie Taymor’s deliriously self-indulgent 2002...
...The national insurance rate will be cut from 10 per cent to 8 per cent and for the self-employed it will be reduced from 8 per cent to 6 per cent....
...It’s all terribly self-regarding, and something of a rerun of Vaughn’s Kingsman adventures, though swapping that series’ blokey obnoxiousness for a tone of female empowerment....
...Orion also plays some characteristic Kaufman tricks: this is a stop-start affair that constantly turns itself inside out to muse self-reflexively on the nature of storytelling, like a fusion of Diary of...
...Twinned with Cerberus, it feels prolix and self-indulgent. The ritual is performed to live renditions of Nina Simone hits plus a dismal up-tempo arrangement of “My Way”....
...Being open to the objets trouvés of the streets, TV and the internet, Jude says, is “a kind of self-education I’m doing with myself, to try to see the absurdist or comic elements that are around, a kind...
...Damaging actions are often portrayed as the outcome of positive intentions, and virtuous self-presentation the product of dubious motives....
...Still, it takes a rare self-confidence to seek to personally reframe this subject matter....
...Akila Quinio ‘Cultures of Growth: How the new science of mindset can transform individuals, teams and organisations’, by Mary C Murphy Cultures of Growth is not so much a self-help book as a group-help...
...Chamberlain may not really have considered them art — many are snaps from his international travels, or goofy self-portraits — but they reveal something of his humour, and his humanity, qualities that have...
...A revealing moment comes at the waterfall near the Bavarian village where Herzog lived as a child, when he says (sternly, or self-mockingly?) “I’m not crying because of emotion.”...
...misguided electorate, institutions that are moribund and full of the same old faces — yet these are not nearly the serious problems for democracy they appear to be, so long as we believe there’s a process of self-correction...
...These include senators Wayne Morse and Ernest Gruening, the only two lawmakers in either the House of Representatives or Senate to vote against an escalation of the Vietnam conflict in 1964....
...We go from an explanation of how self-help perfectionism is closely linked to workaholism, for example, to a broader, system-wide look at what leaders can do to eradicate enthusiasm and praise for those...
International Edition