The Observer - 25.08.2019

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The big

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Markéta Lus kačová captures

an otherworldly freedom on

the beach at Whitley Bay

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Agenda 2-7

Critics 30-45

Features 8-24

Books 46-53

Science & Tech 25-29

Puzzles & Television

54-64

 On my radar Deborah Levy on

her cultural highlights

 Q&A Film-maker and artist

Sam Taylor-Johnson

 The grid Behind-the-scenes

illustrations of Karl Lagerfeld’s

last Chanel collection

 Will Self column

 Interview Irish novelist Edna

O’Brien talks to Sean O’Hagan

 Portishead Jude Rogers on

25 years of the band’s seminal

album, Dummy

 Stewart Lee An extract from

his new book of collected writing

 Photography London as seen

by Irish street photographer

Shane Taylor

 Kate Kellaway enjoys Selina

Todd’s new life of playwright

Shelagh Delaney

 Johanna Thomas-Corr reviews

Salman Rushdie’s new novel

 The books interview

Israeli writer Etgar Keret

 Kitty Empire on Don’t Look

Back in Anger, Daniel Rachel’s

history of 90s pop culture

 Children’s picture books

of the month

 Health Is Amazon fit to

look after our wellbeing, asks

Nic Fleming

 Q&A David Wallace-Wells,

deputy editor of New York

magazine and climate advocate,

talks to Ian Tucker

 John Naughton Is DeepMind

on its way to explaining the

secrets of the universe?

 Everyman crossword, sudoku,

Azed crossword, chess, readers’

pictures – p54-55

 The week’s television and

radio highlights – p56-57

 Today’s television – p64

 Monday to Saturday’s listings

and choices – p58-63

The fi nest writing every Sunday for arts,

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Feedback

Last week we featured the 30

best music fi lms, as chosen by six

musicians. Here are some of the

many further suggestions readers

responded with:

Standing in the Shadows of Motown ,

about the musicians who played on all

of the Motown hits. Amazing interviews

and great live performances. Also, 20

Feet from Stardom, about backing

singers, is fantastic.

Dale Zawertailo , posted online

Th e Last Waltz captures a lost world of

high musicianship and rock’n’roll.

dylan37

Amadeus , one of those 80s Oscar-

winners that isn’t discussed much

these days but i s phenomenal.

dothestrand

Coal Miner’s Daughter: Sissy Spacek

could have had a whole other career

as a country star.

Mila Gorka

Rory Gallagher ’s Irish Tour ’74.

Brilliant if you like the music, but

also a record of what Ireland was

like during the Troubles. Gallagher

played Belfast the day after 10

bombs had gone off.

Patrick Megan

Th e documentary Anvil : by turns

hilarious and very poignant, and

more Spinal Tap than the Tap

themselves.

Visiondeoro

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 Mark Kermode’s verdict on

Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory

 Kitty Empire on Taylor Swift’s

new album, Lover

 Susannah Clapp on Stephen

Fry’s Mythos in Edinburgh

 Catherine Slessor on the

architectural joys of Essex

 Barbara Ellen hails the return

of TV crime thriller Mindhunter