Popcast (Deluxe): Did Dua Lipa Flop? + Miserable Pop Music Films
Discussing the imperfect rollout of Dua Lipa’s latest album, “Radical Optimism,” and the recent music movies “Back to Black” and “The Idea of You.”
Discussing the imperfect rollout of Dua Lipa’s latest album, “Radical Optimism,” and the recent music movies “Back to Black” and “The Idea of You.”
In the biopic “Back to Black,” Marisa Abela wears some of the singer’s actual clothes, but the hair and makeup team chose to tone the signature beehive down.
By Simran Hans
Several depictions of the singer’s life have explored her tense relationship with fame. The new biopic “Back to Black” instead centers her romantic life.
By Simran Hans
Marisa Abela was not widely known before being cast as the troubled singer-songwriter in “Back to Black.” That’s over now.
By Jessica Testa
In her perceptive cultural history, “Eyeliner,” Zahra Hankir shows that liquid versus pencil is only the beginning.
By Cat Marnell
A selection of recent softcover releases by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Bolu Babalola and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
Among the rarities on view at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair are also a 1555 treatise on tennis and Amy Winehouse’s personal library.
By Jennifer Schuessler
In “Amy: Beyond the Stage,” the Design Museum in London explores — and tries to somewhat reframe — the “Back to Black” singer’s life and legacy.
By Desiree Ibekwe
No hagiographies to be found here, with looks at the lives and careers of Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Taylor Swift, among others.
By Noel Murray
Appointment viewing is back. Find out what online events to look for today, and when to tune in.
By Maya Salam
“RBG,” “Whitney” and others are bringing fans into theaters. For those at home, a guide to some of the best docs about luminaries now streaming.
By Aisha Harris
Well Go releases Mr. Hou’s highly praised “The Assassin” on DVD.
By J. Hoberman
“The X-Files,” all night long. Not in the mood? Check out “Amy,” Asif Kapadia’s Oscar-nominated documentary about Amy Winehouse.
By Kathryn Shattuck
A win in this category, or even a nomination, can turn the spotlight on an injustice or a problem and inspire action.
By Cara Buckley
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Works about Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse figure on a list of 124 documentary features submitted for Academy Award consideration.
By Michael Cieply
La película de Asif Kapadia explora las tensiones que llevaron al trágico fin de la cantante Amy Winehouse.
Por Joe Coscarelli
Asif Kapadia’s documentary is a harrowing look at the singer’s life that drives home the costs of celebrity and fandom.
By Manohla Dargis
Asif Kapadia, the director of this documentary on Amy Winehouse, discusses a sequence where she records the vocals for “Back to Black.”
By Mekado Murphy
Asif Kapadia narrates a sequence from this documentary about Amy Winehouse.
Mekado Murphy
Those who decided to make a film about the soul singer’s legacy may not have gotten exactly what they expected, especially her family.
By Joe Coscarelli
The world premiere draws critical raves.
By Rachel Donadio
A statue of the British singer was unveiled on Sunday in London on what would have been her 31st birthday.
By Lori Holcomb-Holland
Asif Kapadia, the director of the acclaimed documentary “Senna,” will use previously unseen footage to tell the story of the troubled British soul singer.
By Dave Itzkoff
The $25,000 being donated will go to defray the expenses of needy children accepted into the academy’s Teen Jazz Program.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
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The coroner, Shirley Radcliffe, said the singer “voluntarily consumed alcohol — a deliberate act that took an unexpected turn and led to her death.”
By James C. McKinley Jr.
A coroner who recorded that the soul singer had died of accidental alcohol poisoning later resigned from her post amid questions about her qualifications.
By Dave Itzkoff
The play was to have opened on Jan. 30 in Denmark.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
The play, based on published materials and public appearances, is to open in January at the Red Room theater in Copenhagen.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Is that the voice of Amy Winehouse in a Heineken commercial?
Dresses that Amy Winehouse never had a chance to wear.
“Ladylike,” a painting for which Amy Winehouse contributed a minimalist self-portrait and which uses an artistic technique Pete Doherty calls “arterial splatter,” yielded only about half the price it was expected to draw at an auction in London.
By Dave Itzkoff
The Amy Winehouse Foundation will finance a scholarship at the Sylvia Young Theater School in London.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
On Saturday a London gallery began showing a series of his paintings in which he had drawn some elements with his blood
By James C. McKinley Jr.
We too often forget that alcohol can be as destructive as any pill.
By Frank Bruni
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Checking in on PBS’s program “Tony Bennett: Duets II.”
By Neil Genzlinger
Mr. Gaultier’s couture collection took cues from Amy Winehouse, evoking her chaotic essence in a marvelous show.
By Cathy Horyn
Amy Winehouse was 27 when she died. So were Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
By Anahad O'Connor
Michael Bublé’s holiday album beats out new releases by the Black Keys and Amy Winehouse on Billboard’s album-sales chart.
By Ben Sisario
Mitch Winehouse says he would never allow his daughter’s music to be used in a movie about her life.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Amy Winehouse’s posthumous album, “Lioness,” and new releases from Robin Thicke and T-Pain.
By Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Nate Chinen
All the fashion news of the week that’s fit to reprint.
By Kathryn Branch
The album, called “Lioness: Hidden Treasures,” will be released on Dec. 5 by Island Records and will include Ms. Winehouse’s covers of songs like “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” and “The Girl From Ipanema” as well as original compositions.
By Dave Itzkoff
A British coroner ruled that the singer’s death in July was the result of “death by misadventure.” An inquest found that Winehouse had more than five times the legal limit of alcohol in her blood.
By Dave Itzkoff
“Amy” is scheduled for publication next summer.
By Julie Bosman
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Amy Winehouse recorded a duet with Tony Bennett four months before she was found dead in her London apartment. Now her father shares a theory about her death.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
For its Video Music Awards this year, MTV opted against a host and for younger stars, making the awards show a surprisingly enjoyable, bleeped-out mess.
By Jon Caramanica
There was widespread speculation in the news media and among other musicians and performers who knew her that her death was related to drug abuse.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Mitch Winehouse said he was forced to give back donations for a proposed Amy Winehouse charitable foundation after he found someone else already bought the Internet domain name he planned to use.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Kanye West, the multi-platinum rapper, took his notorious self-pity and feelings of persecution to a new level during an onstage rant in England when he said he sometimes feels as hated as Adolf Hitler.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Genes, environment and psychology affect who uses drugs uneventfully and who is undone by them.
By Richard A. Friedman, M.D.
Sales soar after the singer’s death.
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Erik Piepenburg on evolving roles for transgender actors; Amy Winehouse's record sales spike; and Dan Bilefsky reports on New York City's booming TV production business.
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Howard Davies’s production of “The Cherry Orchard” at the National Theater is a handsome but exceedingly busy production in which every other line, it seems, is annotated with some exaggerated physical flourish.
By Ben Brantley
Amy Winehouse created music that made others take notice, and looks that gave even bad girls pause.
By Guy Trebay
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Amy Winehouse was a 5-foot-3 almanac of visual reference.
The columnist David Leonhardt argues for long-term commitment to the nation's fiscal health; Britain recognizes the rebels as Libya's legitimate government; and Amy Winehouse's record sales skyrocket.
RICHARD TANNER
The British soul singer sold a total of 50,000 albums last week, 95 percent of them as digital downloads; up until last week her album sales for the year were only 44,000.
By Ben Sisario
What we have witnessed in Oslo and on Utoya Island is the result of multiculturalism gone tragically wrong.
At the root of two tragedies, a pathological preoccupation with norms.
By Andy Martin
The ceremony for Ms. Winehouse was held at Edgwarebury Cemetery in north London and was expected to be followed by a cremation and a family gathering at a local synagogue.
By Dave Itzkoff
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