Charlotte Gainsbourg

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Inhabiting The Music: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of her appearance on The Quietus' stage at this year's Field Day Festival, Charlotte Gainsbourg takes Jeremy Allen through her favourite albums, from Portishead to Bach, Lou Reed to her dad

Beyond The Hits

Serge Gainsbourg: Beyond The Hit

On the late, great Serge Gainsbourg’s 90th birthday, Jeremy Allen trawls through the French chanteur’s back catalogue, picking out 20 of his greatest videos, none of which are ‘Je t’aime… moi non plus’

A Quietus Interview

From The Darkness Of Shadows: Charlotte Gainsbourg Interviewed

French thespian and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg talks to Adam Anonymous about juggling music and movies, recovering from her cerebral haemorrhage, and living in Serge's shadow

Film

Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and Shocking Body Horror Films

_Antichrist_'s harrowing scenes of genital mutilation have the power to shock even today's desensitised viewers. Jeremy Allen wonders if the controversy is overshadowing this sophisticated drama. Plus The Quietus collect 10 similarly shocking scenes of body horror.

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

Baker's Dozen

The Inner Circle: Jussi Lehtisalo’s Favourite Music

In his Baker's Dozen, the Circle frontman talks about converting people to the Dead; why Pori might have the highest concentration of Cardiacs fans in Europe, and what he learned from Faust's Hans-Joachim Irmler

Baker's Dozen

Screaming The Street Down: Niven Govinden’s Favourite LPs

It's all bangers as writer Niven Govinden speaks to Paul Flynn about favourite records from Pet Shop Boys, Aretha, Solange, Madonna, Daft Punk and much more in this week's Baker's Dozen. Photo by Dan Lepard

News 4

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lyra Pramuk And More Feature On New Soundwalk Collective LP

'LOVOTIC' also includes contributions from Willem Dafoe and Atom™

Things Learned At: OFF Festival

In Poland, among trees and meadows and ponds, OFF Festival brings us joy and succour with Lonker See, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shortparis and more

Charlotte Gainsbourg Announces First New Album Since 2010

Charlotte Gainsbourg's new album features collaborations with Daft Punk's Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, Sir Paul McCartney and more

Charlotte Gainsbourg Announces New Album

Stage Whisper for release in January

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Dangerous Liaisons: The Legacy Of ‘Dressed To Kill’ At 40

Brian De Palma's erotic thriller Dressed To Kill shocked and entertained in 1980, but its legacy 40 years later feels knotty, one of dangerous influence and still alluring appeal. Steve Erickson investigates

Film

There’s Something About Stanley: Kubrick’s Strange Science Of Obsession

Jasun Horsley examines the impulses that drive Kubrick's formidable oeuvre and asks what it all means to his legion of obsessive fans

Film

Cut! Not Enough Hollywood Directors Know When To Quit

As Steven Soderbergh and Baz Luhrmann consider their retirement from feature films, Tristan Bath argues that it's time for a few veteran Hollywood directors to be put out to pasture

Film

Goose Fare: Only God Forgives Reviewed

Patrick Smith picks a fight with Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling's follow up to the acclaimed Drive

Film

Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Jane Arden's experimental work about schizophrenia was the only British feature directed by a woman in the 1970s, and remains furiously relevant in its depiction of mental illness, finds Andrew Key

Film

You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

As its 60th anniversary sees it returning to British cinema screens, Adam Scovell dissects Hitchcock's use of time and repetition in his brilliant 1968 film, Vertigo

Film

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

Film

Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like mindless entertainment – but its legacy as an antifascist statement has only grown stronger in the last 40 years, finds Steve Erickson

Film

Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys Ben Wheatley's murderous holiday comedy, which goes on nationwide theatrical release this Friday

Film

Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Hettie MacDonald's 1996 coming-of-age film Beautiful Thing does a rare thing: it gives a gay couple a happy ending. Matt St. Clair writes on the film's enduring bravery

Film

Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

Film

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Articles 4

Inhabiting The Music: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Favourite Albums

Serge Gainsbourg: Beyond The Hit

From The Darkness Of Shadows: Charlotte Gainsbourg Interviewed

Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and Shocking Body Horror Films

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

The Inner Circle: Jussi Lehtisalo’s Favourite Music

Screaming The Street Down: Niven Govinden’s Favourite LPs

News 4

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lyra Pramuk And More Feature On New Soundwalk Collective LP

Things Learned At: OFF Festival

Charlotte Gainsbourg Announces First New Album Since 2010

Charlotte Gainsbourg Announces New Album

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