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<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>

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

One is the Oscar-winning star of ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Blue Velvet’. The other is a Grammy-winning singer who played Billie Holiday to an Oscar nod. And now they’re best friends in Bradley Cooper’s new comedy drama ‘Is This Thing On?’. They speak to Adam White about David Lynch, breaking rules, and the evils of ‘preventative Botox’

<p>Catherine O’Hara has died after a brief illness</p>

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

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

Inside Film

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

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

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

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<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

<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