The 10 best things to do this week: grace jones, back on the big screen

The 10 best things to do this week: grace jones, back on the big screen

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FILM GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI This Sophie Fiennes-directed documentary offers a fascinating insight into the life of one of music's most enduring icons. Built around a specially commissioned performance, the film moves through four cinematic layers – performance, family, artist and gypsy – to help deconstruct Jones's mysterious allure. In selected cinemas from 27 October, the singer herself will appear at a special screening at the Barbican in London on 25 October, where she'll be offering further insight while hopefully being effortlessly amazing. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Starring Armie Hammer and Homeland season one's Timothée Chalamet, this gorgeously shot coming-of-age tale of blossoming love in 1980s Italy is being tipped for a bucketload of Oscars. There's now a meme ("Armie dances to"), so it's a winner already to be honest. Out 27 October. EVENTS GOTHIC MANCHESTER FESTIVAL Get your black trenchcoat, fingerless gloves and mascara out because this year's Gothic Manchester festival is all about Gothic Style(s). As well as film screenings and conferences, there's also a catwalk show devoted to extraordinary goths and steampunks. _From 24 to 29 October_ MUSIC LITTLE DRAGON Gothenburg outsiders Little Dragon have steadily grown their woozy, deliciously wonky pop over the course of five acclaimed albums. This year's Season High saw them work with the likes of Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford and Robyn collaborator Patrik Berger for the first time, but their sound remains as idiosyncratic as ever. The band play Manchester Academy on 26 October. KELLY CLARKSON Having taken on former label boss Clive Davis and former collaborator Dr Luke, Kelly Clarkson finally gets to release an album she says she's always wanted to make in Meaning of Life, out 27 October. Unfortunately, the faux-Motown sheen of lead single Love So Soft seems to suggest she always wanted to be Meghan Trainor. Luckily, recent track, the old-school soul of Move You, shifts the focus to her powerhouse vocals, while regular collaborator Greg Kurstin's involvement suggests there are some proper Clarkso classics. MEDIA FKA TWIGS Okay, brace yourselves for this one: occasional musician FKA twigs (still no second album, guys) has launched AVANTgarden, a "part magic, part memoir" "digizine" that will be distributed using Instagram's slides feature (twigs has more than 1.4m followers, don't you know). The first "issue", out now, is entitled ROOTS. SHOCK. BEAUTY and is a visual exploration of braided hairstyles – hence her looking like a comb/human hybrid in that there picture. NANCY Best friends Kathy Tu and Tobin Low present this weekly podcast that focuses on "provocative stories and frank conversations about the LGBTQ experience". Recent episodes – available on WNYC – have included interviews with musicians Tegan and Sara, a debate about the return of Will & Grace, and an hour-long documentary about decorated US Marine and Vietnam war veteran Oliver Sipple. EXHIBITIONS BOMBERG Expelled from Slade School of Fine Art for being too radical, artist David Bomberg was pretty much neglected in his lifetime. His expulsion led to him travelling to Europe, where he met Pablo Picasso, before being influenced by the cubist, futurist and vorticist movements. See this career-spanning exhibition of more than 70 works in Chichester. _Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 21 October to 4 February_ FROGMAN A supernatural, rites-of-passage story partially told using VR headsets and staged in Norwich. What more do you want from your theatre experience? _Norwich Arts Centre from 25 October_ HUMAN LANDSCAPES This is the first major UK retrospective of Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow, who died in 1973 aged just 46. As well as showcasing her figurative, transformative sculptures, her rarely seen drawings are also featured. _The Hepworth, Wakefield, until 28 January_

FILM GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI This Sophie Fiennes-directed documentary offers a fascinating insight into the life of one of music's most enduring icons. Built around a specially


commissioned performance, the film moves through four cinematic layers – performance, family, artist and gypsy – to help deconstruct Jones's mysterious allure. In selected cinemas from


27 October, the singer herself will appear at a special screening at the Barbican in London on 25 October, where she'll be offering further insight while hopefully being effortlessly


amazing. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Starring Armie Hammer and Homeland season one's Timothée Chalamet, this gorgeously shot coming-of-age tale of blossoming love in 1980s Italy is being


tipped for a bucketload of Oscars. There's now a meme ("Armie dances to"), so it's a winner already to be honest. Out 27 October. EVENTS GOTHIC MANCHESTER FESTIVAL Get


your black trenchcoat, fingerless gloves and mascara out because this year's Gothic Manchester festival is all about Gothic Style(s). As well as film screenings and conferences,


there's also a catwalk show devoted to extraordinary goths and steampunks. _From 24 to 29 October_ MUSIC LITTLE DRAGON Gothenburg outsiders Little Dragon have steadily grown their


woozy, deliciously wonky pop over the course of five acclaimed albums. This year's Season High saw them work with the likes of Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford and Robyn collaborator


Patrik Berger for the first time, but their sound remains as idiosyncratic as ever. The band play Manchester Academy on 26 October. KELLY CLARKSON Having taken on former label boss Clive


Davis and former collaborator Dr Luke, Kelly Clarkson finally gets to release an album she says she's always wanted to make in Meaning of Life, out 27 October. Unfortunately, the


faux-Motown sheen of lead single Love So Soft seems to suggest she always wanted to be Meghan Trainor. Luckily, recent track, the old-school soul of Move You, shifts the focus to her


powerhouse vocals, while regular collaborator Greg Kurstin's involvement suggests there are some proper Clarkso classics. MEDIA FKA TWIGS Okay, brace yourselves for this one: occasional


musician FKA twigs (still no second album, guys) has launched AVANTgarden, a "part magic, part memoir" "digizine" that will be distributed using Instagram's slides


feature (twigs has more than 1.4m followers, don't you know). The first "issue", out now, is entitled ROOTS. SHOCK. BEAUTY and is a visual exploration of braided hairstyles –


hence her looking like a comb/human hybrid in that there picture. NANCY Best friends Kathy Tu and Tobin Low present this weekly podcast that focuses on "provocative stories and frank


conversations about the LGBTQ experience". Recent episodes – available on WNYC – have included interviews with musicians Tegan and Sara, a debate about the return of Will & Grace,


and an hour-long documentary about decorated US Marine and Vietnam war veteran Oliver Sipple. EXHIBITIONS BOMBERG Expelled from Slade School of Fine Art for being too radical, artist David


Bomberg was pretty much neglected in his lifetime. His expulsion led to him travelling to Europe, where he met Pablo Picasso, before being influenced by the cubist, futurist and vorticist


movements. See this career-spanning exhibition of more than 70 works in Chichester. _Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 21 October to 4 February_ FROGMAN A supernatural, rites-of-passage


story partially told using VR headsets and staged in Norwich. What more do you want from your theatre experience? _Norwich Arts Centre from 25 October_ HUMAN LANDSCAPES This is the first


major UK retrospective of Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow, who died in 1973 aged just 46. As well as showcasing her figurative, transformative sculptures, her rarely seen drawings are also


featured. _The Hepworth, Wakefield, until 28 January_