film
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European Film Awards: Michael Caine and Charlotte Rampling lead British success at politically-charged ceremonyBoth actors took two awards at the annual Oscars alternative, which saw UK talent dominate and European film luminaries calling for multicultural solidarity
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Alicia Vikander: ‘I made five films in a row before I had a scene with another woman’The Swedish actor, star of seven major movies this year including Ex Machina and The Danish Girl, talks feet, fame and gender
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Mark Kermode: the best films of 2015A female Iranian vampire, forbidden love and Pixar’s brilliant depiction of a teen’s inner turmoil helped make 2015 a great year for cinema
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Under the makeup, Star Wars is just human wants and desiresShe won an Oscar for her first film, 12 Years A Slave. Now Lupita Nyong’o is back, in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. She talks aliens, sudden fame and family
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The Bad Education Movie, teaching us a lessonA dreadful tradition that dates back to On The Buses is enthusiastically updated
best of 2015
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The 50 best films of 2015 in the UK: No 6 – AmyIt would be easy to spin the Amy Winehouse story as that of a ruined starlet, but this documentary gives us a more interesting one – of a woman who reacted to extreme pressure by trying to vanish
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the full list – interactiveThe Guardian film team’s favourite movies released in the UK in 2015, counting down to the best of the year
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tell us your favourites – and what you think of oursOur critics’ votes are in ... As we count down the best films of the year, it’s your chance to nominate the movie you enjoyed the most this year
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marvellous tech film full of where-did-they-get-that? imageryDirectors Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode and Manu Luksch rewind a century of footage, revealing our mania for technology is nothing new
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cracking, crowdpleasing comedyTina Fey and Amy Poehler are terrific as a pair of middle-aged siblings finally forced to confront the realities of adulthood
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Angelina Jolie Pitt's ambitious but indulgent Euro-dramaHer first film as writer-director-actor borrows from Antonioni and Stanley Donen, but Jolie Pitt neglects to direct her own performance
video & audio
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The Guardian film showThe Guardian film showThe Guardian film show: By the Sea, Hector, The Forbidden Room and Sisters – video reviewsOur film critics review this week’s big releases, including Angelina Jolie Pitt’s romantic tragedy and Amy Poehler and Tina Fey’s new comedy
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The Dailies podcastThe Dailies podcastThe Dailies podcast: The Martian: thumbs up from the most powerful man on earthThe Guardian’s daily round-up of film news and reviews
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Sisters star Tina Fey: 'Embarrassing yourself regenerates your cell growth' - video interviewThe comedian explains how being funny can halt the ageing process and offers some advice to Ricky Gervais about how to host this year’s Golden Globes
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Why When Harry Met Sally is the one film you should watch this week – video reviewPeter Bradshaw explains why the Nora Ephron-scripted comedy, which helped to redefine rom-com relationships, is worth revisiting
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The Guardian film show: By the Sea, Hector, The Forbidden Room and Sisters – audio reviewsOur film critics review this week’s new releases
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Sisters – video reviewThe film team review Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s new comedy, about a pair of siblings staging one last act of rebellion before they’re forced to grow up
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Golden Globes nominations 2016: will it be a Blanchett-DiCaprio one-two?Carol and The Revenant look like propelling their leads to awards-season glory, but Steven Spielberg has good reason to feel snubbed over Bridge of Spies
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Can the Hunger Games franchise survive without Jennifer Lawrence?Ready for another trip back to the evil future nation of Panem? Us neither. But Hollywood seems determined to bring us new movies anyway
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Batman v Superman: the latest exercise in corporate fan fictionFilmgoers arguing about ‘truthful’ interpretations of the story are missing the point: no version of the characters is definitive
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Oscars 2016: How The Revenant, Creed, Joy and more will factor into the raceThe last of the potential Oscar players have screened (save for Star Wars), and the race is all but locked down. Here are the latest additions that stand a shot
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Peter Mullan: ‘Every Scot’s got a story about how corrupt Labour got’The Scottish actor is best known for playing abusive drunks in Tyrannosaur, Neds and, most recently, Sunset Song. In his new film, Hector, we see a softer side. He reveals how sleeping rough in his youth was ideal preparation for the role – and why he campaigned for independence
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Maya Rudolph: ‘I'm not a woman in comedy. I'm a comedian'She’s been a Saturday Night Live regular for years, with her hilarious celebrity send-ups, and she hit the global bigtime as the bride in Bridesmaids. So why is Maya Rudolph now playing nasty?
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Blythe spirit: Gwyneth's mum finally gets her moment in the spotlightShe may feel more comfortable as a supporting player, but Blythe Danner proves she can hold her own as a lead in new film I’ll See You in My Dreams
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Angelina Jolie Pitt: ‘I’m on fire inside’Six kids, two cancer scares, a UN special envoy, marriage to Brad Pitt and now a film about marital break-up … Megan Conner meets Angelina Jolie Pitt
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James McAvoy: ‘Being a Celtic fan is hard’The actor, 36, on the high and lows of football fandom, Scottish independence, and having a crush on Anne-Marie Duff, now his wife, when he was 18
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Guy Maddin on his surreal seances and sexploitation remakesHis new film, The Forbidden Room, features amnesiac chanteuses, a jungle vampire and tormented buttock obsessives. So business as usual, then, for the cult auteur
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsToni Collette: five best momentsThe Oscar-nominated actor stars as a mother battling a devil-goat during Christmas in festive comedy horror Krampus, but what have been her greatest films?
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The film quizThe film quizOcean colour scene: match the sea to the movie – quizWith two watery films set to hit cinemas (Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea and Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea), here’s a chance to show off your nautical knowledge
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DVDs and downloads
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Philip French's classic DVDPhilip French's classic DVDThe Ladykillers review – the greatest comedy caperAlec Guinness’s thieves without honour are no match for Katie Johnson’s Mrs Wilberforce in this allegory of postwar Britain
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentThe Bad Education Movie, teaching us a lessonA dreadful tradition that dates back to On The Buses is enthusiastically updated
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsEden; Paper Towns, Microbe et Gasoil; Aferim!; Unbranded; Red Army; Do I Sound Gay?; A Very Murray Christmas – reviewAn elegy to 90s dance culture, a ramshackle teen bromance and that old humbug Bill Murray
you may have missed
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Angelina Jolie-Pitt's By the Sea: actually an arthouse contenderIt may star the director and her husband, but this drama about a failing marriage has an ambition that deserves respect
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Ice and the Sky: the cold truth about climate changeThe French glaciologist Claude Lorius talks about a new documentary that tells how the Antarctic surveys of his team alerted the world to the threat posed by carbon emissions
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Star Wars' abandoned Tunisian locations – in picturesIn the Sahara desert, the sets from the Star Wars movies were once huge tourist attractions. Photographer Simon Speakman Cordall finds the locals struggling since the revolution and terror attacks
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From The Departed to Black Mass – why is Boston always so grim onscreen?The New England city is always portrayed as chippy and tough. What is it about its unusual psychology that lends itself to such rough treatment?
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – five things we learned from the new trailerClark Kent seems to be all over Bruce Wayne’s secret identity, Wonder Woman pivots the plot, the possible return of General Zod and more
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Jean-Luc Godard: a beginner's guideAhead of BAMcinématek’s new restoration of A Married Woman we offer a primer on the new wave auteur’s essential work
Ultimate force: Star Wars fans camp – and get married – in Hollywood premiere queue
John Boyega: storming from Peckham to galactic fame
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