Queen of the Desert
Gertrude Bell’s wartime history was less than benign | Letters
Letters: During the first world war she suggested that the recently formed Royal Flying Corps use Iraq to refine its bombing technique on the country’s small, isolated villages
Letters
10, Aug, 2016 @6:50 PM
Gertrude of Arabia: the great adventurer may finally get her museum
She was an explorer, an archaeologist, a writer and a spy. Now there’s a campaign to turn Gertrude Bell’s vandalised childhood home in Redcar into a museum
Pat Yale
09, Aug, 2016 @7:00 AM
Jenny Agutter: ‘I’m not that young woman people have fantasised about’
The knicker-waver from the Railway Children has been acting for 50 years. She talks about her new movie Tin, her optimism about roles for older women – and why fish and chips can be just as good as caviar
Benjamin Lee
16, Apr, 2015 @12:01 PM
Berlin 2015 review – Grey… and greyer?
Fifty Shades of Grey steals the limelight, but a more authentic intimacy is to be found in Andrew Haigh’s extraordinary 45 Years, starring Charlotte Rampling
Guy Lodge
15, Feb, 2015 @7:59 AM
Berlin 2015: Queen of the Desert review – a towering Nicole Kidman goes there and back again
Peter Bradshaw: Werner Herzog’s biopic of English adventurer Gertrude Bell is impeccably mounted, competently made, entirely respectable – and a bit of a plod
Peter Bradshaw
07, Feb, 2015 @1:03 PM
Werner Herzog: Gertrude Bell biopic contains most erotic scene I've shot
The German director says Nicole Kidman-starring explorer biopic will be the first of many female-led movies, but that current situation in Middle East means events depicted in film should be treated with caution
Kate Connolly
06, Feb, 2015 @7:06 PM
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