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Battleship, Peter Berg, 131 mins (12A)
Delicacy, David & Stéphane Foenkinos, 108 mins (12A)
Sunday 15 April 2012
Bittersweet Tautou is a blessed relief after an earful of slimy green alien
This Must Be the Place, Paolo Sorrentino (15)
Sunday 08 April 2012
The normally straight-laced actor is a hoot as an aimless, ageing rock star who finds redemption pursuing a Nazi war criminal in this strange, warm and humorous take on the road movie
Archie Bland: We've nothing to fear from Kirchner's condemnation
Wednesday 04 April 2012
I find it uncomfortable to take a strong line on the Falklands. I always get anxious if I feel like I'm being especially patriotic, except about football. And in this instance, I also worry that I might be just seizing on the opportunity to disagree with Sean Penn, which is always hard enough to resist that it can distort your perspective.
And the Academy Award goes to: We predict who will win an Oscar tonight
Sunday 26 February 2012
Who really deserves to win and who was disgracefully left off the shortlist?
Dennis Lehane: The writer who makes crime pay
Sunday 14 August 2011
Child abuse, murder, mental illness, marital breakdown: it's all grist to the mill for Dennis Lehane. And the literary thriller writer has plenty to get off his chest about the welfare system, bankers and 'postmodern jerk-offs' too
The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick, 138 mins (12A)
Sunday 10 July 2011
This is jaw-agape cinema, almost as if God was behind the Steadicam, but Malick's mix of the domestic and cosmic risks being more schlock than awe
DVD: Fair Game (12)
Friday 08 July 2011
Liman, director of the first Bourne, tries a real-life thriller: CIA spy Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts), is married to ex-diplomat Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) who's sent to Niger on a fact-finding mission.
Mystery man: Key collaborators on Terrence Malick's latest film discuss the invisible filmmaker
Thursday 07 July 2011
Terrence Malick is the invisible filmmaker. He never gives interviews and refuses to have his picture taken. Inevitably, this has created an air of mystery around him. There is a suspicion that he must be a Stanley Kubrick-like recluse: an eccentric visionary with strange foibles. However, speak to key collaborators on his most recent film, The Tree of Life (which won the Palme d'Or in Cannes and is released in the UK tomorrow), and what is immediately apparent is the affection in which he is held, and the eagerness that top technicians and actors all have to work with him.
The secret life of Terrence Malick
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Most directors would bask in the limelight of a Palme d'Or win, but Malick did what he always does – watch from the shadows. Luke Blackall profiles the reclusive genius
Once upon a time in Cannes...
Sunday 22 May 2011
A rambling Turkish philosophical thriller led the field, says Jonathan Romney
First Night: The Tree Of Life, Cannes International Film Festival
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Malick pursues his vision in a lyrical, baffling tour de force
Cannes: May in the Midi promises plenty of fun – so cue mayhem, murder...and Mia
Sunday 08 May 2011
Cannes – beaches, bouillabaisse and bonhomie?
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