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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 Wiseman, writes Louis Chilton. But his films have always been difficult to watch in the UK – until now

<p>Éanna Hardwicke by Pip. Styling: Tom O’Dell. Grooming: Alexis Day.</p>

interview

Éanna Hardwicke on playing Roy Keane: ‘He wasn’t afraid to p*** people off’

<p>Kate Hudson has been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Song Sung Blue</p>

Comment

In defence of Kate Hudson’s shocking Oscar nomination

<p>Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel jump and grin and siiiiing in the artwork for Disney’s ‘High School Musical’</p>

Flashbacks

12-year-old girls were never the same after High School Musical

Inside Film

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

Inside Film

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. We need more of this kind of thing, insists Xan Brooks

<p>Ian McKellen in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’</p>

Inside Film

How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?

Elon Musk, JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni have all described JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels as fundamental to their respective world views – but it’d be too easy to claim they’ve simply misunderstood the text, writes Xan Brooks