In his new book, Retreat, Matthew Ingram explores the legacy left by the counterculture of the 60s and 70s upon our very modern obsession with health and well-being. Here he shares some of the stranger tomes he read in the course of researching it
A whimsical road movie anchored by Sean Penn's star turn and a David Byrne cameo, Paolo Sorrentino's English-language debut suggests that the acclaimed Italian director has, like Wim Wenders before him, entered the dread orbit of U2. Stephen Dalton muses on this cinematic Curse of Bono
This weekend The Barbican is presenting a specially re-edited and re-scored presentation of Henri-Georges Clouzot's great lost film The Inferno. We talk to Rollo Smallcombe about the challenges of re-framing one of the great missing movies