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It was so dull that Churchill made his excuses and went to bed in the middle of it – even though it was screened especially for him

A fiery final interview with the provocative Dutch artist

A flat script does Anna Maxwell Martin no favours either

The Secret Garden is assured and stylish

The advent of sound signalled the end of the silent movie star's career

A retrospective opens in Munich of the drawings, films and kinetic sculptures of German artist Rebecca Horn

A new exhibition of the Italian photographer’s work captures the glamour of postwar Italian film

The use of the word ‘hi’ as a greeting in Britain began in the early 1960s – probably influenced by American TV programmes and films

The ideologies aren’t working – and neither are the political parties

If doner meat thrust chaotically into fluffy bread is a surefire way to encourage sobriety in the UK, it is almost a religion in Berlin

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, theatre and books

Received Pronunciation was the epicentre of how you had to talk in British plays. Then a play called Look Back in Anger by John Osborne arrived

The Scottish writer infuses quiet moments with beauty and profundity. Her new book is so good it’s almost impossible to let it go

A new movie role shows there is much more to Sofie Gråbøl than that chunky jumper she wore as Sarah Lund in the classic Scandi noir drama

The late French actor’s enigmatic beauty came to symbolise bohemian style and feminism across Europe

Why shouldn’t hundreds of gay people gather in the woods at night to witness nude oiled wrestling between dykes?

The geographical spread of Romansh in Switzerland is shrinking as speakers start to use the German of their near neighbours

The German-American science writer had an ability to straddle effortlessly the worlds of advanced engineering and mass popular culture

Ahead of July 4, why not read about far more thrilling polls courtesy of Dickens, Wodehouse, Trollope… and even Jeffrey Archer?

Early Soviet avant-garde art… and how it was crushed

The internet is wilfully and demonstrably fickle. What then for restaurants reliant on influencers?

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s television and books

A person considered to be a kind of sexual demon vis-a-vis his actors male and female can also make beautiful, great films

In a Sicilian pizzeria, take care when arguing over the bill

Iain Softley’s cult 1994 directorial debut chronicles the Beatles’ wild early days in Hamburg’s red-light district

The iconic French singer has died after a long battle against cancer

My great-great-grandfather’s behaviour transcends the stuffy confines of respectable churchmen in the 1880s

Its origin is uncertain, but the term ‘muggins’ is one of the very few alternative first-person pronouns to ‘I’ and ‘me’ in the English language

Ingrid Bergman said the German possessed more charm in his little finger than most men had in their whole body

How tragedy turned photojournalist Ernst Scheidegger into a recorder of Dalí, Giacometti and more

A choice of reading for the Euros includes the man who prescribed a cure for English football’s problems, a generation early

Continental players brought skill and intelligence to an isolationist British game. Could our politicians learn from that?