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OUFF’s ‘The Oxford Tales’: Celebrating student filmmaking at Oxford

It’s no secret that Oxford has long been an idealised location for film sets; official-looking SUVs with blacked-out windows and attendants in high vis parading up and down Catte Street and around the Rad Cam are a not-unfamiliar sight.

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Behind the red curtain: ‘Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse’ reviewed

Leo Jones reviews Crazy Child Productions' performance of 'Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse', the first English staging of the play.

Culture Leo Jones -

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Near the riverside, a girl with walnut hair sat with her back to the...

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Oxford on-screen: Historical atmosphere and fantasy worlds

Ideally, we should strike a balance; an awareness of the reality of life at Oxford can co-exist with an appreciation of its grand architecture and historical atmosphere.

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OxFilm: “An hour—and a £3—very well spent”

Sandy Elliot is impressed by the range of talent on show at the launch of OUFF’s Easter Projects

OxView: Best of Cannes

Kenji Newton runs through his top picks of the 2017 festival

Old and new fuse in ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’

Joe Baverstock-Poppy sees the best of David Lynch at work in the show's revival

Rhetoric and realism in ‘Raphael: The Drawings’

Anoushka Kavanagh is impressed by the Renaissance master’s gift for story-telling and imaginative flare in the Ashmolean’s new exhibition

Music without borders : Misogyny and Bollywood

Jeevan Ravindran exposes the contradictions within Hindi cinema

“A fascinating interpretation of Racine’s masterpiece”

Louisa Cotterhill is left stunned by 'Phèdre', a modern rendition of an ancient tragedy

“Precisely the kind of theatre I would like to see more of in Oxford”

Charles Britton is besotted with the potheads in 'Garden'

“Its clear, accessible acting makes intelligible a foreign tongue”

Martin Newman is captivated by the Oxford Italian Play, 'Mistero!'

“Pleasingly thoughtful and thought-provoking”

Natasha Burton previews 'Rewritten' at the Michael Pilch Studio

Evoking emotion and rejecting repression through art in the Middle East

Joseph Botman makes a case for the importance of the humanities in contemporary society

The extraordinary life and lenses of Robert Capa

Katherine Wood discusses the twentieth century’s greatest war photographer

The human desire for an easy explanation

Joseph Botman makes a case for the irrelevance of individuals in history

“It kept me hooked right until the final denouement”

Harry Hatwell applauds Playlliol's rendition of 'A View from the Bridge'

A new era of repressive state censorship dawns over Russian art

Anoushka Kavanagh dispels the religious disguises of violations on creative and political freedom

What can horror movies do to terrify us more?

Calum Bradshaw terrifies himself in the name of student journalism

Old and new fused in ‘Alien: Covenant’

Jonnie Barrow examines the influences of Ridley Scott’s latest horror

Dispatches: Gentrified graffiti on the streets of Stokes Croft

Altair Brandon-Salmon explores differing responses to Banksy as a graffiti artist

A day in the life of… a stage manager

Lucy Coupe gives her perspective on why stage managing is the perfect extra-curricular activity

“A marathon-style theatrical whirlwind”

Harry Hatwell is blown away by 'Angels in America' at the West End

A tempestuous tribute to a perplexing artist

Anoushka Kavanagh is confronted by an ouevre permeated by emotional and creative conflict in Giacometti’s retrospective at the Tate Modern

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