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* When Sir Paul McCartney returned to Liverpool this week, it was for reasons of art not music. Seventy of his canvases, plus wood sculptures and photograph-based pieces, are on display at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool. What might be described as a B-side to his exhibition can be found at the Tate Liverpool which this week opened Remix: Contemporary Art And Pop. Front Row took a look at these very different examples of Pop Art.
Paul McCartney's paintings are on display at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool until 4 August. Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop runs at Tate Liverpool until 26 August.
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* Bruce Willis returns to the screeen this week. Hart's War is a thriller set in a German prisoner of war camp in 1944. The title character, Tom Hart, played by Colin Farrell, is a young soldier taken to the camp where Willis is Col William McNamara, the highest-ranking captured officer.
Hart's War, Certificate 15, opens at cinemas in London on 24 May and around the UK from 31 May.
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* While most cinema-goers watch films either for the fun or the thrills, some people will be watching closely to check that a window broken at the beginning of scene three is still cracked at the end of it, or that an actor with five o'clock shadow doesn't mysteriously become clean-shaven in the course of a speech. Such continuity errors are now so frequent that sections of the Internet are dedicated to collecting them. Front Row reports.
We'd like to apologise for the fact that he was wearing different coloured socks at the beginning and end of the recording.
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The Ivor Novello Awards are the annual British prizes for song-writing. In the past it was probably fair to say that the winners tended to be more famous than the man whom the awards were named after. However this year Ivor Novello is a central character in the Oscar-winning Robert Altman film Gosford Park, where he is witness to a back-stabbing. But it was more a case of back-slapping at the award ceremony from where Front Row's John Wilson reports.
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* The buzz at Cannes today was not about content but technique. The Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov showed Russian Ark, a film billed as the first full-length film ever to consist of a single shot. The search for the one-take wonder has long been the holy grail of movie directors. Front Row wondered if the technical innovation was obvious and if it was distinctive.
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We review Madonna's West End acting debut and talk to the poet Paul Farley.
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Paul McCartney exhibition - Walker Art Gallery official website
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