Culture / Film
Keep it reel
While newspapers and broadcasters pull the plug on budgets for investigative journalism and documentary, Monocle meets Norway’s documentary filmmakers leading the charge to protect films that ask, answer and entertain.
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Culture / Film
Sheffield Doc Fest
For five days a year much of the English-speaking documentary-making world focuses in on an old industrial town in northern England for the Sheffield Doc Fest, one of the major events on the film calendar. Monocle visited…
Culture / Arts
Culture Briefing
A round-up of the best books, films and music.
Midori House, episode 34
We learn about IMF head Christine Lagarde’s trip to Brazil, hear how about a controversial new Russian documentary and unwrap the new issue of Monocle.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 1 December
Weekend agenda 1/2 December
This weekend follow the art trail to Amsterdam, watch a documentary at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York, and check out the independent record fair in London.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 19 November
Weekend agenda, 19/20 November
Highlights of this weekend include a documentary festival in Amsterdam, Australian chef Bill Granger’s first London restaurant and an Aether pop-up in New York.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 28 March
Don't mention the Swedes
A Finnish documentary series has drawn some uncomfortable and controversial conclusions regarding Finland's national identity.
Culture, episode 4
Culture talks documentary film, with a report from Copenhagen’s annual festival, and the producers of The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat in the studio.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 29 July
Weekend agenda: 30/31 July
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection includes open house at a South London art collective, some Swedish electro-pop and a documentary set in gangland Chicago.
Culture / Film
Monocolumn
Friday 17 June
Weekend agenda: 18/19 June
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including a new open-air documentary festival, an architecture exhibition in Paris and an ice-cold pop-up in London.
The Monocle Daily, episode 33
We review an Arab spring protest song, discuss a documentary about Yugoslavian leader Marshal Tito and discuss the look at the International Criminal Court.
Culture / Film
Briefing culture
Books: Catalogue of love affair, an East End turf survey, George Steiner's essays. Films:Jamie Johnson's documentary Sounds Like Teen Spirit and fresh blood in Let the Right one In. Art: New shows at Athens and Turin…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 13 May
Weekend Agenda 14/15 May
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including exhibitions from one of China’s most outspoken artists and one of Japan’s most minimal of architects, as well as a documentary of the life of one of France’s…
Midori House, episode 361
We talk to our Jerusalem correspondent about Obama’s first day in Israel, check out the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, and find out why Swiss German is making a comeback in print.
The Review, episode 61
Mark Radice reviews recent documentaries and Quinton Scott of Strut Records recommends some tracks for your listening pleasure. Plus, we head to San Francisco for our city lookahead.
The Review, episode 71
Critic Donald Hutera on London theatre news, we also ask Itamar Shafrir from Universal Music how you find the perfect soundtrack to an advert, and preview Between the Lines – a festival seeking to explore the changing…
Culture, episode 81
Robert Bound visits Paris Photo in LA, we get check out Portuguese film at the 10th edition of Indie Lisboa, meet the director of a documentary that tells the musical story of Muscle Shoals in Alabama, and enjoy live music…
Culture / Film
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Sounds Like Teen Spirit, Jamie Jay Johnson's warm and witty documentary following four contestants in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, is a sure contender as one of the strongest factual films of 2009. Monocle's Robert…
The Globalist, episode 362
Former British foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind discusses why he believes going to war in Iraq was the biggest policy mistake of the past half century, we look at China’s interest in funding transport projects abroad…
The Monocle Weekly, episode 196
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound meet Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh to discuss his controversial new documentary “The Gatekeepers”, look into Japanese outsider art with James Peto of the Wellcome Trust, and consider the chall…