Happy New Year!
For the sake of this blog, let’s pretend everything is going to get back to normal very soon and cinemas and galleries will be open before too long, so I can tell you what I’m looking forward to this year in terms of culture…
FILM
Obviously, quite a few of 2021’s most exciting releases are films that have been postponed from last year, amongst them No Time to Die and A Quiet Place II but I am also looking forward to Nomadland, Promising Young Woman and Last Night in Soho. Fingers crossed I can see them in a cinema rather than on my sofa.
Films I saw at the London Film Festival (on my sofa) which are due for release this year and which I highly recommend are Limbo, Ammonite and Supernova.
ART
Exhibitions I’m looking forward to include Paula Rego, Yayoi Kusama, Michael Armitage and Lubaina Himid, as well as the Liverpool Biennial, which I am really hoping to be able to travel and see.
TV
The Pursuit of Love, The North Waters, Conversations with Friends, Line of Duty series 6 and A Very English Scandal all sounds as if they’re worth looking forward to.
BOOKS
The reading part of my brain seems to have been switched off for the past couple of months but top of my list is Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart.