Björn Andrésen: The tragic story of the most beautiful boy in
May 13, 2021 · Above image: Still, Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti, 1971. Despite’s its lukewarm reception at the time of release, Death in Venice turned 15 year-old Swedish actor Björn Andrésen into an international icon of forbidden lust. Cast by Italian director Luchino Visconti as the film’s embodiment of beauty and temptation, the image took Andrésen hostage from then on, creating a cult ...
Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud: the French cartoonist whose seminal ... - Hero
Jul 1, 2020 · In 1963, with a style that still closely resembled that of his mentor, Giraud created Fort Navajo with Belgian scriptwriter Jean-Michel Charlier. The immediate success of lead character Blueberry – a hard-nosed, cigarillo-chewing cowboy – led Giraud to create an entirely new comic, with Blueberry as its central titular character.
Family ties: Bill Skarsgård in conversation with Stellan Skarsgård
Aug 17, 2016 · Here, Bill is interviewed by his dad, actor Stellan Skarsgård, in HERO 11. Interview taken from HERO 11. The Skarsgård Dynasty is formidable, relentlessly delivering stellar performers. But this is no easy formula; each Skarsgård is a beautifully mutated chip off the block, faceted with a primal instinct for unique delivery.
François Truffaut: the uncompromising critic of French cinema and ...
Dec 18, 2021 · Together with Bazin, Truffaut formed the theory d’auteur; a type of cinema in which the director is perceived as the sole author of their film, translating their own experiences within their work and exercising a level of authorship that runs through the filmmaker’s oeuvre.
Louise Bourgeois: absent mothers, childhood trauma and Freudian ...
Louise Bourgeois made art as a means of survival and confronting fear. One of the most unique and influential artists of the 20th century, her widely referenced work includes painting, printmaking and most famously sculpture. Regarded as a reluctant hero of feminist art, her pioneering work derived from lived experience as a woman, mother and ...
Ren Hang: the Chinese photographer with nothing to hide – HERO
Jul 8, 2020 · Ren Hang was a Chinese photographer and poet who even after his death in 2017 remains a leading light in China’s emerging photography scene. Hang’s performative and sexually explicit images make him both an icon among LGBTQ+ communities and a target for China’s strict censorship laws. Hailed by the likes of Ai Weiwei, Hang was exhibited ...
The chilling true story behind Robert Eggers’ masterpiece, The
The origin of this remarkable film has its roots in the true story Smalls Lighthouse, which unlike The Lighthouse‘s Maine setting, stands 20 miles off the coast of St David’s Peninsula, Pembrokeshire.The lighthouse that stands on those wave-battered rocks today replaced the original timber structure that was erected between 1775 and 1776.
Rave design pioneer Daniel Poole returns with a collection ... - Hero
Apr 2, 2020 · Following a decades-long hiatus, rave design pioneer Daniel Poole has been gradually reintroducing his cult streetwear label to the fashion industry. Now, he’s reviving his outwear collection with ‘dppn-World Sound Systems’, a tightly-edited, colour-soaked collaboration with Taiwanese label PRETTYNICE.And, from acid-hued long-sleeve tees to reflective ‘skydive vests’, the aesthetic ...
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
Sep 8, 2021 · A driving force during the formative years of Surrealism and an early forebear to the likes of Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, Spanish artist Joan Miró was a prolific innovator across painting, sculpture and ceramics. Though he was born in Barcelona and retained a life-long connection to Catalonia, Miró’s artistic legacy is rooted in ...
HERO 31 cover interview: Ross Lynch in conversation with Becky G
Mar 27, 2024 · 21st century posterboy. HERO 31 cover interview: Ross Lynch in conversation with Becky G. Stylist Davey Sutton. As the frontman of The Driver Era, Ross Lynch commands the stage: he cuts a classic rock ’n’ roll silhouette, empowered by a die-hard fanbase who scream equally as loud in person as on social media.