Movies
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Prosecutors say there ‘ample evidence’ to put Weinstein on trial and that allegations police acted improperly have not sullied case
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The director’s Widows is the Guardian’s eighth best film of the year. He explains why some male white critics didn’t really get it
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4 out of 5 stars.
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins' tragic romance soars
4 out of 5 stars.With his follow-up to best picture winner Moonlight, the writer-director brings James Baldwin’s 1974 novel to the screen with heartbreaking, visually audacious results
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Mary Queen of Scots – Saoirse Ronan rules over political drama
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Ben is Back – Julia Roberts can't save middling addiction drama
2 out of 5 stars.
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Video & Audio
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SSondra Locke, the American actor who was nominated for an Oscar for her first film, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, has died. Locke was best known for the six films she made with her one-time partner, Clint Eastwood, whom she dated for 13 years
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Erika Cohn’s new film tells of how Kholoud Al-Faqih realised her dream of representing women in the Middle East’s all-male religious courts
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Award-winning director Hajooj Kuka on the realities of life in a wartorn country, and the inspiration for aKasha, his first feature film
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In 2010, a plane crash in Russia killed Poland’s president and plunged its prime minister Donald Tusk into crisis. Agata Popęda and Daniel Boffey discuss how this still affects Tusk’s career today. Plus: film-maker Mike Leigh on the 1819 Peterloo Massacre
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Mike Leigh talks about his new film Peterloo, which tells the story of the 1819 massacre during a rally calling for political reform. The director spoke at the Toronto international film festival as part of the Guardian Tiff Talks series
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Ryan Gosling and the director Damien Chazelle talk to the Guardian's Catherine Shoard about their biopic based on James R Hansen's book First Man: The Life of Neil A Armstrong. The film follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969
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Locke was an excellent actor, and serious-minded director, but became trapped by her involvement with Eastwood and subsequent legal disputes
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The three stars talk rivalry, royalty, referendums and the depiction of women running the country in their new period drama. Will the script’s filthy language affect their Oscar chances?
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The BBC 6 Music DJ on the beauty of a Berlin recording studio, Daniel Day-Lewis and the art that held up the Haçienda nightclub
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