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Image: Bottleneck GalleryBring the dystopian dreams of a not-entirely-unrealistic future to your walls with this new Blade Runner art, created by the acclaimed Laurent Durieux. Three striking prints capture the spirit of the film, focusing on the connection between Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Rachael (Sean Young), as well as the movie’s central concern about what “being human” really means.Check out the trio of prints here, which are on sale now; unfortunately the variants are already sold out, but we’ve included them in…

After six years as Riot Games CEO, Nicolo Laurent is stepping down. He’ll be replaced by the company’s current global president A. Dylan Jadeja. “I can imagine this news may feel sudden, but transparently, it’s a decision that’s been on my mind for a while,” Laurent wrote in the statement announcing his replacement. He stated it wasn’t the work itself that compelled him to step down, but rather, “the personal trade-offs that have been hard and the sacrifices my wife and kids have made for my career, including all…

Saint Laurent has been associated with high fashion. Founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Berge, in 1962, the house is now veering into the business of movies. Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal in Strange Way of Life. Saint Laurent Productions, a division of the iconic design house, will be headed by creative director Anthony Vaccarello. It will launch its inaugural production in the upcoming Cannes Film Festival with Spanish work, Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life. It sees Ethan Hawke and Pedro…

Only two of French writer Laurent Mauvignier’s 12 previous novels have appeared in English: The Wound (2015), about the Algerian war of independence, and In the Crowd (2008), which followed four groups of characters en route to Brussels ahead of the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, drawing grisly voltage from the reader’s foreknowledge of the Heysel stadium disaster.Although Mauvignier’s new novel, The Birthday Party, deals wholly with fictitious events in the present day, its remorseless narrative…

When asked what superpower they would wish for, quite a lot of people choose invisibility. The desire to be able to spy unnoticed on others appeals to something in our nature: a wish for knowledge without retribution.The arrival of the mobile phone, and then the smartphone, has brought that power of invisible oversight to governments willing to pay the comparatively small cost – some millions of pounds – of licensing invasive software that will silently monitor a phone. The most popular one (that we know about) is called…

In the teeming, highly diverse cinematic habitat of music documentaries, there are surprisingly few about the phylum of electronic dance music and its many sub-classes, orders and colourful creatures. There are some: films about scenes such as the late 80s/early 90s rave movement or specific clubs such as Sub Berlin: History of Tresor. There are others about specific superstar DJs such as the slick, very commercial Leave the World Behind, a tribute to Swedish House Mafia, or Villalobos, a mesmeric, arthouse portrait of…

Kering SA KER -1.53% plans to double revenues at fashion house Yves Saint Laurent and at its eyewear division, as the French luxury group looks to reduce its reliance on star brand Gucci. Sales at Yves Saint Laurent would reach €5 billion, equivalent to about $5.4 billion, and eyewear sales would hit €2 billion in the medium term, under plans set out by the company during investor presentations in Paris on Wednesday and Thursday.…