News about Nick Broomfield

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The King's return to Sandringham and absence from this week's Royal Windsor Horse Show, an event that has been cherished by his mother, hints at a change in the post-Coronation system. The Queen had never skipped it until last year, when sickness kept her away. Margaret and her parents attended the first show in 1943, in an attempt to raise funds for the war effort. Pictured: The late Queen with her youngest son Prince Edward at the horse show in 1995

Because of the surge of cancel culture and woke politics, the director, who just made a film about Rolling Stones legend Brian Jones, says society is now'at the opposite end of the spectrum' from the 1960s' freedoms. Mr Broomfield's remarks came as a result of growing concerns about the effect that the views are having on the arts and freedom of expression. When discussing his new documentary, The Stones and Brian Jones, he touched on the subject. The film explores the'relationships and rivalries' within the Stones during their early years. It also explores the 1960s' 'iconoclastic freedom and exuberance' as well as its 'intergenerational conflict.'

BRIAN VINER: The majority of musical superstars in recent years appear to have been either documentary (David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Amy Winehouse, The Beatles) or biopics (Elvis, James Brown, Elton John). The late, great Whitney Houston does the double, with I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a dramatization of her life directed by Kasi Lemmons, and just five years since Nick Broomfield delves into the archives to tell her a moving tale in Whitney: Can I Be Me, and just four years after Kevin Macdonald's similarly insightful documentary Whitney. In the unlikely case of anyone summoning the electricity, it would be interesting to watch all three films back to back. Whitney was allegedly molested by her cousin, Dionne Warwick's sister Dee Dee, in a child, according to Macdonald's film. And the mother of the actor, Cissy, a talented singer, never conquered her jealousy, according to Broomfield's. Whitney was regarded as having had the career she should have had, according to her.