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Saturday 12 January 2008

Olivia Grant in 'Lark Rise To Candleford'

Bonnet bonanza

Period dramas have never been more popular. Ahead of 'City of Vice' and 'Lark Rise To Candleford', James Walton asks what it is that we love about them.

Eileen Atkins' week

VISUAL ARTS Unseen pleasures Elliott Erwitt's 'spare' camera produced remarkable material. London Art Fair	MUSIC Cosmopolatino Cumbia - Colombia's infectious music - is crossing the globe. 120 best albums

STAGE Persuasive Poe How David Jubb succeeded in saving the Battersea Arts Centre. Graham Taylor	FILM Hollywood cowboy Tommy Lee Jones on how he is really just a Texas rancher at heart. The Coen Brothers

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

Watch an exclusive clip from Charlie Wilson's War, starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.

Comedy in January

Dominic Cavendish on Ken Dodd, Barry Humphries and more.

Dutch comic Hans Teeuwen

Much Ado About Nothing

Watch Simon Russell Beale and Zoë Wanamaker talk about playing Beatrice and Benedick.

Find family days out and child-friendly activities with our Family Activity Planner

THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

Film reviews

Ang Lee's Lust, Caution offers stunning visuals and a slowly unfolding story of graphically portrayed sex and radicalism.

Ten best songs of the '70s

Hard-rockers, disco dancers, pogoing punks and soulful songwriters - it was a decade awash with diverse delights.

Pass on the baton

Julian Lloyd Webber on how we fail to nurture home-grown conductors.

It's looking great in 2008

Our critics pick the highlights of what promises to be another action-packed year for the arts.

Exhibition highlights 2008

A Mamma of a movie

Its stage success is unrivalled - and now 'Mamma Mia!' is being translated into a film. Charles Spencer talks to the creative dynamos behind both versions.

REGULARS

The arts column

Rupert Christiansen faces up to his music addiction.

On music

Julian Lloyd Webber on the failure to nurture home-grown conductors.

On radio

Gillian Reynolds on why radio wins over television every time.

On film

Kirsten Sheridan talks about Walter Salles's The Motorcycle Diaries.

ARTS BLOGS

"You have to hand it to Tim Burton. Just when you think he can't get any darker, he goes and makes the goriest film of his already morbid career, an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning stage musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

Rebecca Davies

Jane Austen's 'dark underbelly'?: Ceri Radford, Nicolas Cage: Iain Gray,
What might have happened: Lucy Davies, What constitutes a budget meal?: Sally Peck