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The Streep effect: Why economists love her
Her new film is sending cookware sales soaring, just as Mamma Mia! boosted Greece.
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Quentin Tarantino: What's it like being on set with Hollywood's most flamboyant director?
Sunday, 16 August 2009
Inglourious Basterds ticks all the boxes for a film by Quentin Tarantino. Visceral violence, an inspired soundtrack, genre bent all out of shape, reams of crackling dialogue and a veritable love letter to Sergio Leone, The Dirty Dozen and the films of pre-war Germany? Check.
James Spader - Life beyond the brat pack
Friday, 14 August 2009
He was the hip blond rebel who elbowed his way into such classic Eighties teen movies as 'Pretty in Pink'; now James Spader is finding satisfaction in decidedly more grown-up roles. By Lesley O'Toole
The Diary: Tracy Chevalier; sexism in Waterstone's; Sylvester Stallone; Gilbert and George; Beyond These Walls exhibition
Friday, 14 August 2009
Ingmar Bergman: Dangerous liaisons
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Geoffrey Macnab describes how his new book on the film director led him to discover the intense and volatile relationships the director had with his actresses
John Hughes saved my (teenage) life
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
The late director's 'brat-pack' comedies were a rite of passage for a remarkable number of people...
Watch 'La Liberation de Paris'
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
On 15 August 1944, the French Resistance started an uprising in German occupied Paris. Ten days later, the partisan snipers received backup as the Free French 2nd Armoured Division under general Leclerc enters Paris. Urban warfare ensues involving Free French Forces and the German garrison. German and Vichy loyalists are taken prisoners as general Von Choltitz surrenders to Leclerc on 25 August. The US enter the city later and de Gaulle delivers a famous speech. La Libération de Paris is a documentary shot by the French Resistance during the battle of Paris in August 1944.
On the agenda: Let's all hop on a train through Mexico, picnic at the National and folk-rock out at Scala
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Not just another heart-throb Hugh
Friday, 7 August 2009
Hollywood, watch out. There's a new charming, floppy-haired British actor in town. Meet Hugh Dancy
Ten of John Hughes' finest movies
Friday, 7 August 2009
After the sudden death of John Hughes, we look back at ten of the director's finest coming-of-age classics...
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Friday, 7 August 2009
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Bandslam (PG)
Todd Graff’s uneven but hugely charming tale wonderfully captures not just the emotional havoc of adolescence but its passionate belief in music as a life-changing force. Gaelan Connell stars as the youngster moving to a new high school.
Limited release
Mesrine: Killer Instinct, 15
The stylish, energetic and somewhat amoral first instalment of a two-part biopic of one of France’s most notorious criminals. Vincent Cassel is electrifying in the title role.
Nationwide
Sin Nombre, 15
Part chase thriller, part road movie and part star-crossed teen romance, this Spanish-language film about a young pair travelling through Mexico, with a criminal gang on their tail, is grimly fatalistic and strikingly beautiful at the same time.
Nationwide
Home, 15
An oblique, eerie and very J G Ballardian French fable about the derangement of a family’s psyche caused by their living next to a motorway.
Limited release
The Meerkats, PG
This documentary, narrated by Paul Newman, focuses on a young meerkat’s fight for survival against eagles, cobras, lions and rival gangs of meerkats in the Kalahari.
Limited release