In 1985 begon Music Meeting met jazz-, dans- en improvisatiemuziek uit alle windstreken. Veertig jaar later staat dat concept nog steeds overeind, maar is het festivallandschap veranderd.

Na het succes van films en serie Flodder, veertig jaar geleden begonnen, is er nu een vervolg. Niet gemaakt door regisseur Dick Maas, maar wel met actrice Tatjana Simic als Kees Flodder. Ghislaine van IJperen speelt haar sympathieke dochter.

Het voetbalseizoen 2025/26 zit erop voor Feyenoord. In FC Rijnmond blikken Geert den Ouden, Harry van der Laan en Emile Schelvis terug op het jaar van de Rotterdamse club en vellen een eindoordeel.

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I captured this image of the iconic “Rokuban-Yagura Turret in Osaka Castle” with my iPhone 17 Pro Max while visiting Osaka, Japan. These historic wooden towers, situated on the moat wall, were used for defense, storage, and surveillance…

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I took this photo of the “Cherry Blossoms” at Osaka Castle with my iPhone 17 Pro Max while visiting Osaka, Japan. This walkway runs along the moat wall and leads to the entrance to Osaka Castle. I love all the cherry blossom petals that look like light snow on the surrounding grounds…

Cannes film festival: A man is terrified to wake up in Seydoux’s body in this metempsychotic mystery film about gender identity

Arthur Harari’s film is adapted from a graphic novel he wrote with his brother Lucas called The Case of David Zimmerman. It is a doomy, murky and intriguing supernatural noir mystery, hardly visible within the dark toxic cloud of its own strangeness, populated by people bearing stricken expressions of misery and fear. There are some genuinely uncanny and disquieting moments. Maybe it is a parable for the crisis of gender identity – or just identity, and everyone’s occasional experience of the profound, unreconcilable unknowability of our own bodies. There is also something of the mood of Blow-Up, or Basil Dearden’s Brit pulp chiller The Man Who Haunted Himself, or indeed David Robert Mitchell’s modern classic It Follows. But this one, sadly, is flawed by that perennial problem of how to end a story with a great premise.

Niels Schneider plays David Zimmerman, a photographer in his late 30s documenting the way in which his home town has changed over the past century – a project inherited from his photographer dad. (He has an old photo of them both seated on the pavement, apparently mimicking Chaplin and the Kid.) David is overworked, dishevelled and depressed, but is just about persuaded to go along to a raucous New Year’s Eve party where he is stunned to glimpse a woman staring at him, played by Léa Seydoux, whom he realises he photographed a few months’ previously.

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Forward was dropped after a previous attempt to undermine coach, but doing so now could spark mutiny

We can safely say how Arne Slot would like to respond to Mohamed Salah’s latest attempt to undermine him. The Champions League trip to Inter in December, when Salah was left at home as punishment for his incendiary interview at Leeds three days earlier, provides as clear an indication as any. But should a repeat offence result in a repeat sanction on Sunday? Liverpool and their besieged head coach could do without inflaming a potential mutiny at Anfield.

Salah decided to draw up battle lines before his departure, with Saturday’s social media post criticising Liverpool’s direction under Slot. His concerns are widely shared by the Liverpool fanbase and the Liverpool squad, it seems, given the support it received from Curtis Jones, Dominik Szoboszlai, Andy Robertson and several members of last summer’s underwhelming recruitment drive. Arrive at great expense, fail to deliver and fuel the sense that a toxic civil war is erupting behind the scenes: thanks for your efforts lads. It is impossible to say what prompted each individual like on Instagram but that is the impression the collective has given.

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