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Francis Ford Coppola has often focused on personal issues. His latest film after a long hiatus is no different, he tells Kaleem Aftab
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Alternative World Cup calendar: How to escape the football
Friday, 11 June 2010
Don’t bother leaving the country, it’s global. The world’s obsession with the World Cup means it's pretty difficult to escape if you really don't care. So, for those of you looking for ways to avoid the games as they kick off, we've compiled an alternative World Cup calendar of interesting cultural events which directly clash with the matches.
Why fashion on screen lacks style
Friday, 11 June 2010
As a film on Isabella Blow is planned, Geoffrey Macnab argues that haute couture and cinema are more likely to clash than complement
Indy Choice: Best of the new films
Friday, 11 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.
A score with bite for bestial blockbuster Twilight
Friday, 11 June 2010
A horde of pop stars have been jostling for a lucrative berth on the soundtrack to the latest Twilight film. Gillian Orr takes a look at a particularly toothsome collection
The Diary: Orange Prize; Glenn Miller; Last Of The Summer Wine; Colin Firth; English Acoustic Collective
Friday, 11 June 2010
Beautiful game hits fever pitch in the USA
Friday, 11 June 2010
The first time Steve Singer saw Goal!, Ross Devenish and Abidin Dino's film about the 1966 World Cup, it was the year it came out. "I thought it was a great film, but the sport didn't really mean that much to me," he explains.
Ethan Hawke joins the NYPD and leaves criminals star-struck
Friday, 11 June 2010
It's a beautiful character," Ethan Hawke enthuses, "who in the first scene commits a murder, and in the second goes to confession and then can't confess. He feels he's got 200 pounds on his shoulders, a giant gorilla on his back, which is that he's failed his wife."
Exclusive trailer: The Concert
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there.
Cameras in pursuit of the unfilmable: Hollywood's impossible dreams
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Some of our greatest stories have always defied movie directors – but a few are finally being realised on screen.
On the agenda: Caf� a Vin; The Flavour Thesaurus; Cath Kidston; Nick Lloyd Webber
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Biodynamic wines and the release of a flavour thesaurus kick off our food issue
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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
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
(NC, Jez Lewis, 90mins)
Intimate, heart-rending, searingly honest but non-judgemental first-person documentary, offering a close-up portrait of the director’s alcoholic and drug-addicted contemporaries and acquaintances, and investigating the damage wreaked upon two generations by addiction, joblessness and despair in the West Yorkshire market town of Hebden Bridge, where he grew up.
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
