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Vincent Gallo: 'I am available to all women – all women who can afford me, that is'
Who on earth does Vincent Gallo think he is? James Mottram meets Hollywood's most outspoken star
Inside Features
Your alternative cultural guide for World Cup month
Friday, 4 June 2010
The next few weeks don't have to mean wall-to-wall World Cup. Here Christina Patterson presents her cultural alternatives, while Gerard Gilbert picks the best non-sporting TV on offer
Up close and personal with the new, all-American anti-heroes
Friday, 4 June 2010
Noah Baumbach's new film, Greenberg, starring Ben Stiller in his first serious role, is the latest in a crop of sour, forensic family movies from the US that refuse to toe the Hollywood line. Geoffrey Macnab reports
Indy Choice: Best of the new films
Friday, 4 June 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.
Screen Talk: Warner hopes for a better Time
Friday, 4 June 2010
Hollywood insiders and shareholders alike are whooping with delight now that the decade-long struggle to merge AOL and Time Warner has finally ended.
Wesley Snipes: Action man courts a new beginning
Friday, 4 June 2010
After a decade of legal problems and straight-to-DVD duds, the actor is back on top with his finest role since Blade.
A new Eagle has landed, hopes the British creator of Kick Ass
Friday, 4 June 2010
Judging by the nine-picture deal which Samuel L Jackson has apparently signed to reprise the Iron Man films' eyepatch-wearing superspy Nick Fury, the appetite for US superhero films isn't expected to die down soon, with outings for Kenneth Branagh's Thor, Captain America and The Avengers also in the pipeline.
Rian Johnson: How I went from Brick to Brothers Bloom
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Californian writer and film director Rian Johnson achieved critical acclaim in 2005 for a low budget neo-noir murder mystery movie inspired by Dashiell Hammett detective novels called ‘Brick.’ His second film, ‘Brothers Bloom,’ which hits cinemas in the UK tomorrow, is an intense departure from the edginess and careful stylisation of Johnson’s debut. It is instead a light-hearted conman movie, filled with slapstick capers and cons within cons, which might miss the mark for early converts to Johnson’s initial Wes Anderson-alike style, but which possesses a kooky, if self-aware, charm.
Noel Clarke: "I read the Vagina Monologues when my friends were still laughing at the word vagina."
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Upon graduation and realising my degree hadn't really brought me any closer to a career path, like many graduates I perused endless job sites and signed up to countless (useless) recruitment agencies.
Jim Thompson: Pulp friction
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
They're criticised for being violent and misogynistic, but Jim Thompson's Fifties novels make for compelling cinema, as a new version of The Killer Inside Me proves
The two sides of a hollywood legend
Monday, 31 May 2010
Dennis Hopper was more than just a hell-raising actor – he was also a gifted photographer. Robert Sellers considers an extraordinary career.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Bad Lieutenant
(18, Werner Herzog, 122mins)
Werner Herzog’s version of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 movie stands at an angle, neither sequel nor remake. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, it’s a film of dank, lowering skies and sickly blue dawns, with Nicolas Cage giving it the Full Kinski as a rogue cop descending a spiral of perdition.
Nationwide
Lebanon
(15, Samuel Maoz, 93mins)
Samuel Maoz’s debut feature is a raw and horrifying memoir of war that examines in close-up the physical and psychological torments of young men in mortal danger. Yoav Donat stars as a 19-year-old tank gunner thrust into the first Lebanon war in June 1982.
Limited release
Vincere
(15, Marco Bellocchio, 124mins)
Is it possible that Benito Mussolini was even worse than the official history makes him? Marco Bellocchio’s drama believes so, portraying Il Duce not only as the man who led Italy into the abyss but disowned his first wife and separated her from their son. Filippo Timi gives a chilling performance.
Limited release
Dogtooth
(18, Yorgos Lanthimos, 97mins)
Imagine a domestic sitcom directed by Michael Haneke and you’re close to imagining this linguistically and stylistically inventive Greek fable, which offers a cruel and bizarre parody of family life.
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
