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Culture

Books, films and music to make a date for, plus our culture editor's monthly musings.

  • Issue #63
  • 10 min read
Graffiti artist in Singapore
Business

Behind the Camera

Film producer Sisse Graum Jørgensen exemplifies the hard graft of getting films to the big screen. She tells Monocle about winning an Oscar, shunning Hollywood and celebrating Denmark’s unique film-making culture.

  • Issue #63
  • 5 min read
Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Business

The ideas factory

That effortless feeling as a new work hits the page or screen is down to individuals who link inspiration to industry. Here are a few of our favourites.

  • Issue #60
  • 10 min read
The ideas factory
Entrepreneurialism

Bigger than Björk

Magnus Scheving, creator of ‘LazyTown’, is a global phenomenon and reluctant Icelandic icon. Presidents take his calls and children in 128 countries listen, but he thinks he has outgrown his small nation.

  • Issue #26
  • 5 min read
Bigger than Björk
Culture

Arts surgery

Monocle has sorted out your culture fixes for the next year, with a round-up of the best exhibitions, gigs, books, films and music releases to look forward to.

  • Issue #29
  • 9 min read
Arts surgery
Entertainment

Creative futures

We’ve asked five artists, musicians and writers to tell us what they’ll be up to in the coming year and what will keep their creative juices flowing.

  • Issue #49
  • 11 min read
Illustrated portrait of Eiji Aonuma, Nintendo game designer, wearing glasses and a dark blazer over a graphic t-shirt.
Culture

Dub be good to me

Across the world, there are people who are literally being John Malkovich or Homer Simpson. In their home nations, the voices of dubbing artists are more famous than those of their Hollywood counterparts.

  • Issue #40
  • 18 min read
Dub be good to me
Affairs

Acting funny

Big-league comedian and film director Takeshi “Beat” Kitano emerged from working-class roots to fame with his TV programmes and gangster films. This year, he has published his autobiography.

  • Issue #34
  • 5 min read
Acting funny
Culture

Culture

Roman Polanski's new drama The Ghost, music picks from gospel to "geyser-pop", the new books we've been reading.

  • Issue #32
  • 8 min read
Five books displayed on a bright yellow background including Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Nick Kent Apathy for the Devil, Point Omega, and Fordlandia by Greg Grandin.

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