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Posted on October 28, 2014
Today
Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality
Telluride film festivalAlice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead a complicated, quietly heartbreaking drama about friendship, ageing parents and the sadness of lives moving inexorably onMike Leigh’s new film – [...]
Sat, Sep 05, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
Act 3 review – queer art history and life reflections from masters of metatextuality
Telluride film festivalChristine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s absorbing documentary is a parallel take on their relationship and a nascent drama on artists Claude Cahun and Marcel MooreChristine Molloy and Joe [...]
Sat, Sep 05, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
Earlier
15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility
Venice film festivalDirector Cédric Kahn combines compassion with coolly detailed forensic scrutiny in this genre-challenging film which puts a troubled love triangle at the centre of the storyVeteran French director [...]
Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Like a tired boxer, battered by applause’: as Andrew Scott’s biopic premieres, Richard Eyre remembers Ian Charleson’s superb, near-death Hamlet
In 1989, the Chariots of Fire actor took on the incredible task of playing Shakespeare’s prince while terminally ill from Aids. This weekend sees the world premiere of Elsinore, a [...]
Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
Latcho Drom director Tony Gatlif dies aged 77
Film-maker acclaimed for his celebrations of Roma culture had been working on a ‘historical film project’ in ProvenceTony Gatlif, the French director of more than 20 films that mostly concentrated [...]
Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
Queer Edward II review – funny, touching time capsule of Derek Jarman at work
Venice film festival: Filmed during the making of his queer royal feature, while the director was living with HIV, the candid footage includes uproarious scenes at a Cliff Richard rehearsalThere [...]
Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza
The writer-director once called Israel’s ‘one-man New Wave’ is in Venice with The Road to Jericho, a new and poetic attempt to highlight the plight of those in the occupied [...]
Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was one of DC’s few successes. It’s a mystery why she got the chop
James Gunn and Peter Safran’s regime had good reasons to ditch Ben Affleck’s Batman and Henry Cavill’s Superman. Other choices have been much harder to fathomThere was never going to [...]
Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
A remarkable documentary made by blind students: ‘We were stunned by the footage’
In Brailled It, the tension and stakes of the annual Braille Challenge are brought to the screen by three of the competitorsFor the past 26 years, some 22,000 blind and [...]
Fri, Sep 04, 2026
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‘If you can’t understand what sex is, it’s irrelevant if you seem to be enjoying it’: how Queen at Sea upended the dementia drama
Lance Hammer’s first film in 18 years is a heart-wrenching masterpiece about family, mental decline and sexual consent. He and supporting actor Juliette Binoche discuss how they brought unabashed realism [...]
Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com