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Is Angela Lansbury Britain's most successful actress ever?
Star of 'Murder She Wrote' tells Andrew Johnson it's great to be in the limelight once again at 84.
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UK film industry warns against tax relief removal
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The film industry brought in billions of pounds to the UK economy last year but a cut to tax breaks could see growth collapse, according to a report from Oxford Economics.
Danny Boyle lined up to direct 2012 Olympics opening ceremony
Monday, 7 June 2010
When the Chinese film director Zhang Yimou was enlisted to orchestrate the inaugural ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the world waited with excitement and later praised the breathtaking results.
'Blomkvist, Mikael Blomkvist'
Sunday, 6 June 2010
The financial crisis has left Daniel Craig's most famous alter ego shaken and stirred. But just like James Bond, the British actor is a master of reinvention.
Every picture tells a story, but it's even better if it inspires a toy
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Spin-off toys from successful films are now crucial to movie industry profits. Guy Adams reports from Glendale, California
'Mandy the movie' hits the cutting room floor after star's wobble
Saturday, 5 June 2010
A further twist in the tale of Lord Mandelson and the Rothschild family was played out yesterday in a small market town in Wales, when the former business secretary revoked permission for Hannah Rothschild to show a documentary she has made of the old family friend.
Stars turn out for Hopper's funeral
Friday, 4 June 2010
Jack Nicholson and Val Kilmer were among the actors who joined dozens of Dennis Hopper's relatives and friends to remember the two-time Oscar nominee at a memorial Mass in New Mexico.
Studios reel after worst holiday sales since 2001
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Hollywood pins hopes on summer revival as Memorial Day weekend proves a flop
'Hobbit' movie in jeopardy as Del Toro quits
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Guy Adams: If you thought reading a JRR Tolkien novel was time-consuming, try turning one into a film
Eastwood at 80
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Go ahead... make his birthday. Eighty things you might not know about the octogenarian and Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood
'Easy Rider' star loses battle against cancer
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Dennis Hopper, the American actor, writer and director once described by Peter Fonda as 'a little fascist freak', dies at the age of 74
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Cinema Guide
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2 Is Angela Lansbury Britain's most successful actress ever?
3 The festival goer's cheat guide
4 Indy Choice: Best of the new films
5 A score with bite for bestial blockbuster Twilight
6 Body to body: Dita Von Teese
7 The ten best: Bollywood movies
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10 Who the hell does Brian May think he is?
11 Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat, 99 mins (15)
12 Indy Choice: Best of the new films
13 Alternative World Cup calendar: How to escape the football
14 Manuscript reveals dark side of Lawrence of Arabia's sex life
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4 DVD: The Edge of Darkness (15)
5 Bollywood Podcast: Hrithik Roshan
6 Album: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Mojo)
7 Guitar greats honoured at Mojo music awards
8 After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all
9 Conan Doyle And Joseph Bell: The Real Sherlock Holmes, Surgeons' Hall Museums, Edinburgh
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Bad Lieutenant
(18, Werner Herzog, 122mins)
Werner Herzog’s version of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 movie stands at an angle, neither sequel nor remake. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, it’s a film of dank, lowering skies and sickly blue dawns, with Nicolas Cage giving it the Full Kinski as a rogue cop descending a spiral of perdition.
Nationwide
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
(NC, Jez Lewis, 90mins)
Intimate, heart-rending, searingly honest but non-judgemental first-person documentary, offering a close-up portrait of the director’s alcoholic and drug-addicted contemporaries and acquaintances, and investigating the damage wreaked upon two generations by addiction, joblessness and despair in the West Yorkshire market town of Hebden Bridge, where he grew up.
Limited release
Vincere
(15, Marco Bellocchio, 124mins)
Is it possible that Benito Mussolini was even worse than the official history makes him? Marco Bellocchio’s drama believes so, portraying Il Duce not only as the man who led Italy into the abyss but disowned his first wife and separated her from their son. Filippo Timi gives a chilling performance.
Limited release
Dogtooth
(18, Yorgos Lanthimos, 97mins)
Imagine a domestic sitcom directed by Michael Haneke and you’re close to imagining this linguistically and stylistically inventive Greek fable, which offers a cruel and bizarre parody of family life.
Limited release
The Ghost
(15, Roman Polanski, 128mins)
Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Robert Harris novel is highly entertaining on two levels, as a steadily gripping conspiracy thriller and as a dryly witty and pointed political satire. Ewan McGregor stars as an unnamed ghostwriter hired to liven up the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan).
Nationwide