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<p>Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore in the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ sequel ‘Hannibal’</p>

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Hannibal at 25: The inside story of cinema’s most disappointing sequel

The source material was so deranged that Jodie Foster refused to come back, but that didn’t stop Hollywood from adapting Thomas Harris’s unpleasant, character-destroying sequel to ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. Tom Fordy looks back on the very difficult making of the most pig-squealing, brain-sautéing blockbuster in film history

<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’

<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

<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?

Inside Film

<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>

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, writes Xan Brooks