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Gallery (10 pictures): Michael Douglas is to star as Liberace in a new biopic about the toothsome entertainer. Prepare yourself for the film of a lifetime by casting an eye over the other, shall we say, curious casting choices of cinema history. By Xan Brooks
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23 Aug 2009:
Tarantino's take on the Hollywood war movie is stylish and gripping, but falls away after a quite brilliant opening, says Philip French
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13 Aug 2009:
Oliver Stone's epic turns one of the most interesting characters in history into a bleach-blond bimbo with parent trouble
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7 Aug 2009:
Vincent Cassel, as a real-life French master criminal, puts Public Enemies in the shade, says Peter Bradshaw
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Video (3min 22sec), 6 Aug 2009:
The star of La Haine, Irreversible and the biopic of French gangster Jacques Mesrine explains the appeal of playing dangerous characters and what it was like growing up in the Parisian district where the charismatic criminal lived and died
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6 Aug 2009:
Alex von Tunzelmann: To heighten the realism, Paul Greengrass's 2006 film of the final moments of the hijacked flight employs all the techniques of documentary. That doesn't mean that it is one
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Video (2min 24sec), 4 Aug 2009:
Vincent Cassel stars as France's public enemy No 1, Jacques Mesrine, in Jean-François Richet's César-winning biopic of the notorious gangster
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4 Aug 2009: The Oscars host is to reunite with his Academy Awards partner Anne Hathaway in a musical about PT Barnum that could have music and lyrics by Mika
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3 Aug 2009: Nowhere Boy, a portrait of John Lennon's early years that stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff, will bring the curtain down on this year's jamboree
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2 Aug 2009:
Philip French finds the Chanel biopic elegant but dull
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31 Jul 2009:
It is astonishing that a film so accusatory can be made about a living character, says Rob Mackie
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31 Jul 2009:
Audrey Tautou plays the original grande dame of Parisian haute couture, Coco Chanel. Like her clothes, it's handsome and well made, says Peter Bradshaw, but slow
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30 Jul 2009:
Alex von Tunzelmann: Roland Joffé's 1986 epic is powerful and horribly accurate on the destruction of South American native culture. If only the players involved could have put down their weapons and had a singalong instead
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26 Jul 2009:
A film that tells the heartbreaking true story of a mixed race child in South Africa, writes Philip French
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24 Jul 2009:
I showed would-be models Some Like It Hot. Instead of laughing, they gazed in horror at Marilyn Monroe and gasped, 'But she's so big'
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24 Jul 2009:
Peter Bradshaw: This quietly intelligent drama finds a new way of dramatising race, class and society in apartheid-era South Africa
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