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Avatar - Gateway to a new world
Friday, 4 December 2009
James Cameron's long-awaited 3D science-fiction epic Avatar opens this month. Geoffrey Macnab recounts the Titanic director's long struggle to make it, and asks whether the film will revolutionise cinema
Pablo Escobar - Child of the cocaine cartels
Friday, 4 December 2009
Two Hollywood movies about drugs baron Pablo Escobar are planned. But a film in which his son sheds his anonymity to meet his father's victims has beaten them to the punch. Geoffrey Macnab meets the man who once vowed revenge on his dad's killers
Indy Choice: Best of the new films
Friday, 4 December 2009
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.
Claire Danes: 'I have all the qualities of a nerd'
Friday, 4 December 2009
The 'Me and Orson Welles' star prefers to stay out of the limelight but her private life has never been short of romance or intrigue
Bollywood podcast: Saif Ali Khan
Thursday, 3 December 2009
In my last podcast, you heard my interview with Kareena Kapoor. Picking up where we left off and having now seen the movie Kurbaan, which is one of the most powerful, thought-provoking, slickest and intense pieces of cinema I've seen this year, this week, you can hear my interview with Saif Ali Khan - the movie's protagonist, Kareena's real life partner and general Bollywood idol.
Low film budgets cost money
Monday, 30 November 2009
Does the success of 'Paranormal Activity' herald a new era for home-made cinema? Sadly not, argues Geoffrey Macnab
When friends fall out: The story of Facebook's creation
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Stuart McGurk: The film of Facebook's creation will reveal the fights and bitterness among the feuding founders.
Film Sequels - love at second bite
Friday, 27 November 2009
The second film in the 'Twilight' series is thriving at the box office and new research suggests that there is a formula for the perfect sequel. Kaleem Aftab reports
Out of this world
Friday, 27 November 2009
Gill Pringle: Jessica Biel has shed her pin-up image but exudes sex appeal even when playing an alien.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Disgrace, 15
John Malkovich plays the decadent South African professor who is made to face some uncomfortable truths about himself and his country in this powerful adaptation of J M Coetzee’s 1999 Booker winner.
Limited release
Bright Star, PG
Jane Campion’s film is a wistful and melancholic account of the unconsummated romance between the poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawne. Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish star.
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
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life, 15
Deftly spanning 15 years in the life of a middle-class French family, this comedy-drama maintains a consistently light touch while dealing with love and loss.
Limited release
Me and Orson Welles, 12A
Richard Linklater’s wry new film recounts the chaotic run-up to the first night of Orson Welles’s stage production of ‘Julius Caesar’ in November 1937, as seen through the eyes of a 17-year-old student who, through a combination of cheek and talent, secures a minor role in the play.
Nationwide