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Film Sequels - love at second bite
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
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Jessica Biel - Out of this world
Friday, 27 November 2009
Jessica Biel has shed her pin-up image but exudes sex appeal even when playing an alien, as Gill Pringle discovers
The movie that mattered to me
Friday, 27 November 2009
In a new book by Independent writer Geoffrey Macnab, the world's leading film directors talk about the films that first inspired and influenced them
Observations: Steven Soderbergh on the high cost of intimacy
Friday, 27 November 2009
My new film The Girlfriend Experience is about a high-class Manhattan escort named Chelsea, who sells intimacy as well as sex. The whole thing that drew me to that world... basically, there was an incredibly steep surcharge for kissing.
The Big Question: Does Charlie Chaplin merit a museum in his honour, and what is his legacy?
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Vampires: From freak to chic
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
In literature vampires are terrifying, shadowy figures who "vant to suck your blood", and whose heads need to be cut off and stuffed with garlic to prevent them returning from the dead. But in cinema vamps appear to be, well vampish.
London's film locations: Time for some new ones?
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
From its dystopian underpasses to the leafy avenues of Notting Hill, London has always offered evocative backdrops for film. But must we keep seeing the same old places?
Twilight: the world's richest bloody franchise
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
85 million books sold. The biggest opening of any film in US history. Guy Adams investigates the 'Twilight' phenomenon.
Meet Tiana, a Disney heroine like no other
Monday, 23 November 2009
After seven decades of making dreams come true, Hollywood's finest animation studio finally decided to create its first African-American princess. And that's when the trouble started. Guy Adams reports
Ashley Jensen: 'Ricky and Extras changed my life'
Friday, 20 November 2009
A Ricky Gervais sitcom made Ashley Jensen a star and helped her land a role in 'Ugly Betty'. In her first interview since becoming a mother, she talks Hollywood, Botox, and her new comedy with Rosamund Witcher
Poliakoff: 'Original work takes arrogance'
Friday, 20 November 2009
The director's latest film is set at the beginning of the Second World War, a period inextricably linked with his own family history
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FIVE BEST FILMS
An Education, 12A
Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina star in this adaptation of a Lynn Barber essay from Granta magazine about the relationship between a precociously clever 16-year-old and an older man in the Sixties.
Nationwide
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.
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Welcome, 15
A sad, completely involving film about the relationship between a laconic French swimming instructor and a teenage Iraqi refugee so desperate to get to England that he’ll even attempt to swim the channel.
Limited release
Up, U
Pixar’s latest animation is imbued with texture, detail, warm humour and physics-defying action sequences, and has a genuinely touching story about old age and new beginnings.
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