Last week our critics chose their highlights from a vintage year for culture. What did they miss? You went for Bruce Springsteen, Dallas, Stockhausen in helicopters ... oh, and a certain knees-up in July
• Open thread: what are your 2012 cultural highlights?
Arts correspondent Charlotte Higgins was right about the Olympic opening ceremony, but for me she missed one of the key points, namely the fantastically egalitarian tone. Yes, Danny Boyle paid homage to Shakespeare and Brunel, to TV and theatre, but underpinning all of that was the homage to us, the ordinary people of Great Britain. Those Olympic rings were forged by the labour of workers, as were the physical products of the Industrial Revolution. The NHS is perhaps the greatest symbol there is of a society that cares for its people. And it was indeed a very British spectacle – a brilliant reflection of a nation which sometimes seems to have two left feet,...
• Open thread: what are your 2012 cultural highlights?
Arts correspondent Charlotte Higgins was right about the Olympic opening ceremony, but for me she missed one of the key points, namely the fantastically egalitarian tone. Yes, Danny Boyle paid homage to Shakespeare and Brunel, to TV and theatre, but underpinning all of that was the homage to us, the ordinary people of Great Britain. Those Olympic rings were forged by the labour of workers, as were the physical products of the Industrial Revolution. The NHS is perhaps the greatest symbol there is of a society that cares for its people. And it was indeed a very British spectacle – a brilliant reflection of a nation which sometimes seems to have two left feet,...
- 12/10/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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