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Leap of faith: The Princess and the Frog
Disney's landmark new cartoon, The Princess and the Frog, has given hand-drawn animation the kiss of life. Guy Adams reports from the Mouse House
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Jacques the ripper: Why terror stalked the set of the Audiard's latest hit film
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Jacques Audiard, I suggest to the French director, has something of a reputation as a perfectionist. He sits bolt upright, feigning outrage. "Really? Who's the bastard that has it in for me? That's a terrible word."
Copy cats! The claws are out
Sunday, 17 January 2010
James Cameron is the latest artist to be accused of plagiarism
My Bollywood love affair
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on how her dreams were made in Mumbai, and why she despairs for the Bollywood industry.
Stanley Kubrick - A dream movie revisited
Friday, 15 January 2010
As a huge new book is published about Stanley Kubrick's unmade Napoleon film, Rob Sharp speaks to the director's relatives and collaborators, and gets rare insights into his famously assiduous working methods
Katie Jarvis - Essex's accidental actress
Friday, 15 January 2010
Katie Jarvis followed the critical acclaim of Fish Tank with awards, more film offers and a baby daughter. She tells Charlotte Cripps that she finds her life increasingly surreal for a teenager
Indy Choice: Best of the new films
Friday, 15 January 2010
Whether you want to take a trip to the cinema or save those pennies and stay at home with a DVD, here's a selection of the best films for you to watch this weekend.
Observations: Living la dolce vita with Federico Fellini and friends
Friday, 15 January 2010
Ever since Anita Ekberg frolicked under the waters of Rome's Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita, the phrase and the city have become synonymous with the film's director, Federico Fellini. One man was lucky enough to experience this "sweet life" with Fellini in the 1950s and early 1960s – William Klein, the American photographer and film-maker. Fresh from acclaim for his unconventional images of the streets of New York, Klein, then 28, had come to Rome from his Paris home to assist Fellini on his earlier film, Nights of Cabiria.
Party Of The Week: Clooney a winner over dinner with the critics
Friday, 15 January 2010
George Clooney showed off his beard at the New York bash for the Film Critics Circle Awards at the glitzy Crimson club on Monday night.
Changing face of gay culture
Friday, 15 January 2010
Philip Hensher: Why it has taken so long for homosexuality to become unexceptional on film and TV?
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FIVE BEST FILMS
NOWHERE BOY
(15)
Sam Taylor-Wood’s film debut rewinds to the mid-1950s, when John Lennon was growing up in leafy Liverpool with his aunt Mimi, failing at school but just beginning to discover himself as a delinquent and heart-throb. It thrums to a fierce narrative beat and, even more importantly, it feels like something made with love.
Nationwide
THE WHITE RIBBON (15)
Michael Haneke's Palme d’Or-winner is a brooding, cool-handed and gripping parable about repression and violence, set in a Protestant German village before the First World War.
Nationwide
TREELESS MOUNTAIN (PG)
This quiet drama of separation and loss is based on events from the writer-director’s own childhood. She directs so unobtrusively that you may forget that the camera is there, but you won't forget its evocation of a child's yearning for a missed parent. Limited release
UP IN THE AIR (15)
George Clooney stars as a frequent-flying businessman in a smart comedy about the depersonalisation of corporate life by the director of Juno, which lightens its satire with the right amount of romanticism.
Nationwide
STILL WALKING (U)
Three generations of an extended Japanese family gather together for this intimate, touching, wise and Ozu-like domestic drama.
Limited release