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From stage to screen: films adapted from plays new
Earlier this week, Steven Spielberg confirmed he will direct a film adaptation of War House - the children's book that has become a huge hit in London's Theatreland. As Spielberg joins the growing club of directors who have adapted plays and musicals for the big screen, we look at the work of those who have gone before him.
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The African Queen - Bogart, Hepburn, and a case of the 'jungle jeebies'
Friday, 7 May 2010
What happened when John Huston took Hollywood's biggest stars to the Congo has become a movie legend. As a restored version of The African Queen is released, Geoffrey Macnab tells the tale
Hollywood's new action queen goes into orbit
Friday, 7 May 2010
Gill Pringle: Zoe Saldana played no-nonsense heroines in Star Trek and Avatar, and she wants to 'kick some ass' in The Losers
Indy Choice: Best of the new films new
Friday, 7 May 2010
Whether you want to take a trip to the cinema or save those pennies and stay at home with a DVD, here's a selection of the best films for you to watch this weekend.
The Diary: Daisy Goodwin; British Film Institute; Peter Marino; Elia Suleiman; Eyes Wide Open
Friday, 7 May 2010
Cultural Life: Omar Sharif, actor
Friday, 7 May 2010
Films: I have not seen any films lately. In fact, I never go to see movies, and I don't watch them on television either. I have no patience any more to watch something for two hours. But, if I do want to see a movie, I choose it carefully, because I must be sure that I will like it! In the last 30 years or so, I have seen three wonderful pictures, which were 'ET', 'Billy Elliot' and 'Amadeus'.
Dreamworks: Why the dream team became a nightmare
Thursday, 6 May 2010
It was the most ambitious Hollywood venture in a generation. Yet somehow, the three founders never quite meshed.
Exclusive clip: Robin Hood leads the charge
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Oscar winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as Robin Hood, whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spirit of adventure and righteousness.
Terrorism? You're having a laugh...
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Chris Morris has made a satire on suicide bombers. The film's writers talk to Stephen Applebaum.
David Lister: Redgrave was versatile, vivacious and under-rated
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
The line from Hamlet that "when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions" must be haunting the Redgrave family. Vanessa Redgrave, who has lost her daughter and her brother, has had to face within a year the loss of her daughter, brother and now sister.
10 of the worst movie sequels ever made
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Sequels have the power to make audiences pretty irate, and it's completely understandable when a film's name is tarnished due to poor follow-ups to movie classics.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Lourdes, U
In Jessica Hausner’s unsettling drama, Sylvie Testud plays Christine, wheelchair-bound from MS and visiting Lourdes in no apparent hope of being “cured”. The remarkable coup of the film is that it can be taken either as a testament to the power of faith or as a subtle undermining of it.
Nationwide
Bananas! (NC, Fredrik Gertten, 80mins)
A controversial Swedish documentary following the case fought by a personal-injury lawyer on behalf of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers. It’s as gripping as any fictional courtroom drama, but it has a less comforting resolution.
Limited release
The Ghost (15, Roman Polanski, 128mins)
Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Robert Harris novel is highly entertaining on two levels, as a steadily gripping conspiracy thriller and as a dryly witty and pointed political satire. Ewan McGregor stars as an unnamed ghostwriter hired to liven up the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan).
Nationwide
I Am Love
(15, Luca Guadagnino, 120mins)
A voluptuous unease defines the mood of this story about a super-rich Milanese family thrown into turmoil. Tilda Swinton stars.
Nationwide
City of Life and Death
This account of the Nanking massacre in 1937 has an eerie, nightmarish quality, with moments so extreme that they look like images from an apocalyptic Hieronymus Bosch painting.
Limited release
