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Cillian Murphy with hist best actor Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer. Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Cillian Murphy on what he’s done since Oppenheimer, and his Oscar

Actor produced and stars in Irish historical drama Small Things Like These. He hopes Oscar win helps him tell stories with a point of view.

9 Nov 2024 - 4:15AM

October 7 widow on her movie at Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival

7 Nov 2024 - 7:15AMvideocam

10 holiday classics about Santa Claus in peril to watch before Red One

6 Nov 2024 - 1:16PMvideocam

Review | Weekend in Taipei: Luke Evans, Gwei Lun-mei in dull action quickie

Sung Kang is tame as a tycoon fighting Evans’ drug cop to get at his estranged wife and her son, in a film that has action but lacks panache.

5 Nov 2024 - 5:48PMvideocam

Luke Evans in a still from Weekend in Taipei.

Why no US release for lauded Palestinian-Israeli documentary?

Team behind film depicting Palestinian life in Israeli-occupied West Bank yet to find a US distributor. They blame politics and US election.

5 Nov 2024 - 3:48PMvideocam

Review | Paddington in Peru: third time’s still a charm for beloved series

Movie sees Paddington bear and his adoptive family fly to the rescue of his aunt in South America, where they have some knockabout fun.

4 Nov 2024 - 5:00PMvideocam

The name’s Bond, James Bond. Yes, for real. And it’s no joke

A new film, Our Name is Bond, reveals the trials and tribulations as well as the upsides of sharing a name with the world’s most famous spy.

27 Oct 2024 - 7:15PMvideocam

In documentary Our Name is Bond, people such as the man pictured reveal the tribulations of sharing the name James Bond with the fictional spy. Photo: Apple TV

Explainer | How 2004 horror movie Saw launched the torture porn subgenre

James Wan’s low-budget horror film Saw spawned a US$1 billion franchise and inspired numerous ultra-violent films.

8 Nov 2024 - 7:59AMvideocam

‘Time has come’ for Indian women directors with 3 set to vie for Oscars

Director of wife-swapping comedy Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies), Indian Oscars entry, hails ‘special moment’ for South Asian women filmmakers.

21 Oct 2024 - 7:15AMvideocam

Why Slow Horses’ Kristin Scott Thomas no longer finds TV acting boring

Thomas, who has appeared in films from The English Patient to Random Hearts, talks about working with Gary Oldman and acting at 60 years old.

13 Oct 2024 - 6:15PMvideocam

Kristin Scott Thomas as MI5 second-in-command Diana Taverner in a still from Apple TV+ series Slow Horses. The award-winning actress talks about finally working in TV, and acting at 60. Photo: TNS

Illegal immigrant turned film star dramatises migration issue in France

Abou Sangare, who stars in Souleymane’s Story as an asylum seeker and delivery driver in Paris, has a deportation order hanging over him.

12 Oct 2024 - 5:15PMvideocam

Abou Sangare, lead actor in Souleymane’s Story, after a premiere at the Louxor cinema in Paris. Photo: AP

Review | Blitz, a Dickensian wartime drama, blends the intimate with the epic

Steve McQueen’s Blitz places a young black boy at the centre of this second world war-set film as he makes his way back to his mother.

10 Oct 2024 - 2:40AMvideocam

Why Wim Wenders’ classic Paris, Texas still mesmerises 40 years on

Director Wim Wenders recalls the shoot for his 1984 American masterpiece, which is being re-released in cinemas in 4K in October 2024.

1 Oct 2024 - 7:15PMvideocam

Review | Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness: Johnny Depp-directed biopic

Starring Riccardo Scamarcio as painter Amedeo Modigliani, Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness sees Johnny Depp try out directing again.

25 Sep 2024 - 5:45PM

Riccardo Scarmacio as Italian Jewish painter Amedeo Modigliani in a still from Modi - Three Days on the Wing of Madness, directed by Johnny Depp. Photo: Modi Production

What is Emmanuelle, the new French erotic film set in Hong Kong?

The latest instalment of the series stars Noémie Merlant, Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe – as well as regional talents Anthony Wong Chau-sang and Chacha Huang

25 Sep 2024 - 4:00AM

Chacha Huang, Will Sharpe, Noémie Merlant and Jamie Campbell at the 72nd San Sebastian International Film Festival. Photo: AFP

Review | Emmanuelle: Hong Kong-set erotic drama a chic reboot of soft-core classic

Noémie Merlant is inscrutable as Emmanuelle in this Hong Kong-set update of the cult 1974 erotic film that’s more tasteful than titillating.

21 Sep 2024 - 12:37AMvideocam

‘It’s got tougher,’ says Hard Truths’ Mike Leigh of his organic filmmaking

At Toronto International Film Festival, British director, 81, reflects on his career, introduces new film and defends his way of filmmaking.

11 Sep 2024 - 8:39AMvideocam

10 of the best movies from the 2024 Venice Film Festival

Here is our pick of the best movies from the 2024 Venice Film Festival, including Golden Lion winner The Room Next Door.

11 Sep 2024 - 5:19PMvideocam

Nicole Kidman (left) and Harris Dickinson in a still from Babygirl. Photo: Niko Tavernise

Review | Queer: Daniel Craig shines in Luca Guadagnino’s steamy drama

Premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and starring Daniel Craig as a homosexual drug addict, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a faithful dive into the universe of author William Burroughs.

4 Sep 2024 - 10:23AMvideocam

Update | The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner

Tilda Swinton stars as a cancer patient who wants to end her life and asks her old friend (Julianne Moore) to be near her when she takes a euthanasia pill, in this Pedro Almodóvar drama.

8 Sep 2024 - 10:13AMvideocam

Review | Wolfs: Brad Pitt, George Clooney in laid-back comic thriller

Playing no-name guys who dress and talk the same, Pitt and Clooney bring bonhomie to Wolfs, a slick crime story with a clever set-up where the story is secondary to the entertainment.

2 Sep 2024 - 8:03AMvideocam

Brad Pitt and George Clooney in a still from Wolfs, which will stream on Apple+. Photo: Sony Pictures.

Review | In Maria, a delicate biopic, Angelina Jolie shines as opera singer

Pablo Larraín’s elegant Maria stars a stunning Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, one of the greatest opera singers of all time, and tells the story of the final week before her fatal heart attack.

30 Aug 2024 - 9:46AMvideocam

Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in a still from Maria (category TBC), directed by Pablo Larraín. Photo: Pablo Larraín

Review | Touch: cross-cultural love story by turns tender and hollow

This Covid-set drama with Koki and Masahiro Motoki, about an Icelandic man searching for his Japanese flame from the 1960s, could have done more to explore the struggles of Hiroshima bombing survivors.

26 Aug 2024 - 11:23AMvideocam

Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte Bardot lead tributes for actor Alain Delon

‘Angel-faced’ Alain Delon, French actor of instinctive genius who often played dark characters – gangsters and, in Le Samourai, a hitman – remembered by fellow actors, film directors and French president.

19 Aug 2024 - 12:15PM

Superhero movies out, music biopics of singers like Britney Spears in

Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen are all subjects of upcoming biopics. What’s going on? As superhero movies tank, musicians’ life stories are taking their place in cinemas.

11 Aug 2024 - 6:15PMvideocam

Britney Spears attends an awards ceremony in in 2018. A film about the singer’s life is in the works, the latest in a long line of music biopics. Photo: TNS

Review | Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Opus a fitting farewell to beloved composer

The posthumous album Opus is a journey through Japanese film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s half-century career, including music from The Last Emperor and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.

9 Aug 2024 - 4:15PMvideocam

Ryuichi Sakamoto at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 3, 2017. Photo: AP

Why Ferry to Hong Kong was ‘nightmare film’ for its director

Casablanca meets The World of Suzie Wong in the 1959 movie Ferry to Hong Kong, whose cast – specifically stars Curt Jürgens and Orson Welles – nearly sank it for James Bond director Lewis Gilbert.

9 Aug 2024 - 10:34AMvideocam

Meet Adèle Exarchopoulos, the gorgeous actress voicing Ennui in Inside Out 2

She became the youngest winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or award in 2013 for Blue is the Warmest Colour; these days, you’ll find her front row at fashion shows, being a mum, and taking on Hollywood

8 Aug 2024 - 6:30PM

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European cinema

From Danny Boyle to Michael Haneke, from Francois Truffaut to Ingmar Bergman, from Soviet Montage to French New Wave to Romanian New Wave, and from Berlin film festival to Cannes to Venice, this is the place to go for features, interviews and reviews about movies both classic and new from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and every other country in Europe.

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9 September, 2024