Review: Wadjda

REVIEW: A film of firsts, Haifaa al-Mansour’s endearing and engaging tale is also first-class entertainment. As well as the novelty of watching a feature entirely shot in Saudi Arabia, we’re also witness to the inaugural creation of a female Saudi director – Haifaa al-Mansour.

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Neil Young is ‘rescuing music’

Neil Young wants to bring music back to where fans can listen to every cymbal strike, every guitar strum, every echo thought up by a musician. The future of sound one day soon could be contained in a candy bar-size receiver that sits on a breakfast counter – a new music initiative he’s launching named PonoMusic, the legendary rocker told an audience of several thousand attendees at SXSW on Tuesday

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12 Years a Slave makes history

The slavery drama 12 Years a Slave won the Academy Award for best picture, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honour in 86 years of the Oscars. British director Steve McQueen’s unflinching portrayal of pre-Civil War American slavery won two other Oscars, including best supporting actress for newcomer Lupita Nyong’o and best adapted screenplay based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man tricked and sold into slavery in Louisiana

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