Owen Richards

Articles By Owen Richards

The Toll review - once upon a time in west Wales Saturday, 28 August 2021 Read more...	Black Bear review - unexpected knotty treat Monday, 26 April 2021 Read more...
Sisters With Transistors review - the forgotten frontier Thursday, 22 April 2021 Read more...	Filmmaker Darius Marder: 'Deafness is a culture. That's not being PC' Saturday, 03 April 2021 Read more...
theartsdesk Q&A: Daryl Hall Monday, 08 March 2021 Read more...	Baby Done review - romcom done right Thursday, 21 January 2021 Read more...
Filmmaker Frank Marshall: 'People don’t understand what geniuses The Bee Gees were' Tuesday, 08 December 2020 Read more...	Mogul Mowgli review - displacement and generational trauma Thursday, 29 October 2020 Read more...
Filmmaker Bassam Tariq: 'Great cinema doesn't need to be perfect - embrace the imperfections' Tuesday, 27 October 2020 Read more...	The Secret Garden review - blooming charming Sunday, 25 October 2020 Read more...
Time review - a stunning portait of enduring love Thursday, 15 October 2020 Read more...	Eternal Beauty review - imagination in every frame Friday, 02 October 2020 Read more...
Miss Juneteenth review - a ray of Texan sunshine Friday, 25 September 2020 Read more...	Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui: 'The disability community is the world community' Tuesday, 25 August 2020 Read more...
Young Ahmed review - jihadist drama misses the mark Thursday, 06 August 2020 Read more...	Album: Glass Animals - Dreamland Wednesday, 05 August 2020 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Three live, very alive Symphonie fantastiques in a year may seem a lot. But such is Berlioz’s precise, unique and somehow modern...

Johnnie Taylor’s big break came with the ever-fabulous September 1968 single “Who's Making Love.” His ninth 45 for the Stax label, it went Top Ten...

“Satan come to me!” The Devil doesn’t so much appear in David McVicar’s Faust as reveal himself to have always been there. We discover...

How do you make Bernard Shaw sear the stage anew? You can trim the text, as the director Dominic Cooke has, bringing this prolix writer's 1893...

There is a dark, spectral quality to this compassionate film about Southeast Asian migrant workers in rural Taiwan. At the centre...

Manchester Camerata spent eight years performing and recording a complete edition of Mozart’s piano concertos with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet as soloist...

Morcheeba reach their 30^th anniversary this year. The 1990s...

It’s not what he says, it’s the way he says it. Few filmmakers have bent the term “auteur” to their own ends more boldly than...

Ammar 808 is the high octane vehicle for the Tunisian-born producer Sofyann Ben Youssef, now based in Denmark. His first album Maghreb United...