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Alistair Harkness: Welcome return of Hal Hartley

Alistair Harkness welcomes the chance to revisit an indie auteur who was as important as Quentin Tarantino or Richard Linklater

Arts diary: Glasgay! | UK City of Culture | Quiz

IT’s been a good week for gay rights. Plans for equal marriage in England and Wales made it through the House of Commons (although they still need to get past the House of Lords) and the Church of Scotland voted to admit gay ministers.

Zoe Saldana as Uhura and Zachary Quinto as Spock in the new Star Trek film. Picture: Contributed

Arts blog: ‘Uhura is not far off being Bridget Jones in space’

SEXISM lets down the new Star Trek movie according to trekkie Andrea Mullaney, while David Pollock previews a Cuillins psychogeography project.

Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter in the new TV adaptation. Picture: NBC

Arts blog: Hannibal taking bite out of cinema | Twitter plays

ALISTAIR Harkness finds further evidence that American TV is outperforming the US film industry, while Andrew Eaton-Lewis discusses the art of creating a drama in 140 characters.

Justin Currie's response to the Pop Cop survey raised some eyebrows. Picture: Contributed

Arts blog: Musicians on independence | Edinburgh Fringe

NOW that it’s fewer than 500 days until the referendum that will change Scotland forever, or not, you’ll be hearing lots more well-known names explaining why they’re voting one way or the other.

Bon Scott lead singer for the band AC/DC with Angus Young. Picture: Getty

Arts blog: Boards of Canada | Bonfest

AT time of writing, two of the most inventively staged viral music marketing campaigns of the year are reaching their endgame.

Arts blog: Lyceumgate | Calmangate | Gatefold Sleeves

FOR a while now, the website 100percentmen.tumblr.com has been naming and shaming institutions across the world which consist entirely of men, from boards of major companies to the line-up of the New York Comedy Festival.

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Brad Pitt during filming for World War Z in Glasgow. Picture: Reuters

Arts blog: Hollywood’s obsession with wooing the Chinese market

WHEN Iron Man 3 goes on release in China on 3 May, local audiences will get a different version from the one being released in the UK this week.

Arts blog: Money money money | Manchester vs Edinburgh

MARIA Miller’s first speech as the UK’s culture secretary, at the British Museum yesterday, was a curious mix of familiar Tory business jargon, the ‘creative economy’ language of the New Labour years, and a fondness for marketing slogans presumably inherited from her time in advertising.

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