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An unlikely new type of Hollywood hero
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Battered, bruised and more than a little flawed, Hollywood’s current crop of leading men is breaking the mould. It’s a sign of the times, says Rosamund Witcher
London River: The film of the 7/7 bombing
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
It was the talk of Berlin, but this new film is nothing to celebrate, says Kaleem Aftab
Oscar's best-dressed friends
Monday, 16 February 2009
Susannah Frankel: The most memorable fashion winners and losers
Class act: How the French director Laurent Cantet netted an Oscar nomination
Sunday, 15 February 2009
The French director Laurent Cantet tells Jonathan Romney how he let a class of school children loose on his script – and ended up with an Oscar nomination
Parties: Want to see my Bafta?
Sunday, 15 February 2009
It's the Grey Goose Bafta after-party at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, and the youth brigade have taken over. Brangelina and weeper Winslet are nowhere to be seen within the labyrinth of 15 rooms set aside for the bash – perhaps they're at one of impresario Harvey Weinstein's two parties across town.
Marlon and me: Budd Schulberg tells his amazing life story
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Born of Hollywood royalty, he drank with F Scott Fitzgerald, sparred with Hemingway, tamed Brando, and consoled Muhammad Ali. He also wrote some of the greatest lines ever committed to celluloid. So why does Budd Schulberg remain a virtual unknown?
The Young Victoria - another screen queen
Friday, 13 February 2009
'The Young Victoria' goes a step further than other films about royalty. It is co-produced by Sarah Ferguson and has a cameo for her daughter, Princess Beatrice. Alice Jones reports
Carey Mulligan - Straight to the top of the class
Friday, 13 February 2009
At just 23, UK star Carey Mulligan is working with Johnny Depp and Michael Mann and was the toast of the Berlin Film Festival. Gaynor Flynn meets her
Observations: The poster boy for Hollywood's star gangsters
Friday, 13 February 2009
A man in his early fifties is dressed in black tie. He is lit from above, which throws his features into an intimidating scowl. The picture is completed – rather incongruously – by a young cat in his arms.
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5 A real scene stealer: Glenn Brown's 'second-hand' art is the subject of a Tate retrospective
6 Last Night's Television - Mistresses, BBC1; In the Line Of Fire, ITV1
7 Bars, brawls and bad-mouthing - it's the Brits new
8 Gone in 65 seconds: Gabriel quits Oscars
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King of the Hill, 15
An unexceptional thirtysomething (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is minding his own business in the Spanish countryside when he is shot by an unknown assailant with a hunting rifle in this a taut, stripped-down, cat-and-mouse thriller.
Limited release
Vicky Christina Barcelona, 12A
Woody Allen’s best film for a decade is a sunny and sexy romantic drama, about two young Americans who go to Barcelona for the summer and become involved in a ménage à quatre. Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz star.
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Three Monkeys, 15
A claustrophobic and sweaty interior drama about guilt, sexual violence and the abuse of power from the Turkish director, who is quietly becoming a major force in European cinema. Yavuz Bingol stars as a driver who takes the rap for his employer’s hit-and-run offence in return for a cash payment to help out his family.
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Revolutionary Road, 15
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio star as a dissatisfied, warring couple in this consistently absorbing and occasionally heart-rending adaptation of the Richard Yates novel.
Nationwide
Slumdog Millionaire, 15
An antic, and romantic, fable about the joys and nightmares of childhood, about a boy’s search for love, and about a teeming, terrifying city on the rise. Dev Patel stars as Jamal, the 18-year-old recounting his life as a “slumdog” on the streets of Mumbai. Nationwide