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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
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An all-star cast leads Crime 101, a nihilistic modern take on Heat
Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry star in this tale of thieves and coppers colliding in LA, and Bart Leyton’s movie runs like a fine-tuned engine
An all-star cast leads Crime 101, a nihilistic modern take on Heat
Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry star in this tale of thieves and coppers colliding in LA, and Bart Leyton’s movie runs like a fine-tuned engine
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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
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
