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

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

Springsteen and Dylan have already had the movie treatment, The Beatles are up next, with Joni Mitchell on the horizon. Patrick Smith was ready for it all to stop, until one exciting bit of casting news

<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?

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

<p>Laura Dern and Andra Day: ‘Bradley Cooper said: What are we missing? You inform us about these female characters. You help us build them, and this sisterhood’</p>

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Laura Dern: ‘David Lynch saw things in me that I didn’t see in myself’

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

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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