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<p>‘You come off as somebody with a major attitude problem. But then you realise that the anger and frustration isn’t really going to help you’</p>

Interview

The return of Thora Birch: ‘I wouldn’t trade child stardom... but it has a heavy price’

No one was cooler at the turn of the millennium than the teenage star of ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Ghost World’. And then she was gone. As she returns with a haunting role in Kristen Stewart’s ‘The Chronology of Water’, she speaks to Adam White about early fame, trauma and survival

<p>Meryl Streep will be starring as Joni Mitchell in Cameron Crowe’s forthcoming biopic</p>

Comment

We don’t need more biopics – but Meryl as Joni sounds irresistible

<p>Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘One Battle After Another’</p>

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Why are the stars of this year’s political Oscar faves staying quiet?

Tribute

Catherine O’Hara made flawed characters not just bearable but beloved

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<p>Celebrated documentarian Frederick Wiseman, pictured in 2013</p>

Inside Film

One of the great American filmmakers is now finally available to watch

There are few filmmakers around as insightful, prolific, and profound as Frederick Wiseman, writes Louis Chilton. But his documentaries have always been difficult to watch in the UK – until now

<p>Kristen Stewart at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Chronology of Water’ this month</p>

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Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is pretentious but magnificent

The one-time teen idol has never taken the easy route in her stardom, and her first feature film behind the camera – next month’s ‘The Chronology of Water’ – is an appropriately awkward, non-commercial and impressionistic affair, writes Xan Brooks