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Ulysses

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:03:23 GMT

A Serious Man

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:36 GMT

Twilight fever: it gets its teeth into you

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:53 GMT

Parents of Britain, prepare for a weekend of Twilight fever. The second big-screen instalment in the hit vampire saga, New Moon , opens today, and the advance ticket sales already stand at a ten-year high, eclipsing the likes of The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, according to America’s leading movie-ticketing agency, Fandango.

The White Ribbon

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:34:48 GMT

The White Ribbon

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:05:05 GMT

Taking Woodstock

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:13 GMT

Apocalypse everywhere

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:09 GMT

The most remarkable thing about the doomsday disaster movie 2012 is not the eye-gouging special effects. Nor is it the casual depiction of the death of nearly six billion people. It’s not even the scene devoted to the cancelling of the London Olympics due to unforeseen Armageddon. No, the truly unique thing about Roland Emmerich’s 2012 is that it’s not unique at all. In fact, it positively struggles to find it’s own space in a movie marketplace that’s crammed to bursting with apocalyptic product.

British film insider top tens

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:48 GMT

Julian Fellowes, screenwriter, The Young Victoria, Gosford Park

The 100 Best Films of the Decade

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:46 GMT

100 The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006) Meryl Streep begins her own populist career reinvention (soon to be followed by Mamma Mia!) by playing a tyrannical and thinly disguised version of Vogue editor Anna Wintour in this satirical yet soft-centered account of life among the fashionistas.

Michael Haneke: 'It’s super to be number one'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:40 GMT

Michael Haneke on Hidden It’s super to be number one, I’m very happy. I am surprised Caché was a success because it wasn’t an easy film. Perhaps audiences aren’t as stupid as mainstream film-makers often think. I am not preoccupied with surveillance culture, but I hope my films reflect the times they are set in.

Paranormal Activity: the new Blair Witch Project

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:59 GMT

It’s early November 2008, and in a Santa Monica movie theatre a teenage girl is huddled in the corner, alone, rocking herself back and forth, like a baby. All around her, 250 of her frenzied traumatised peers are in emotional disarray. Some are yelling out loud, some are yelling at each other. While some are simply pacing the aisles, unable to sit down, or to watch. This, it transpires, is the first public screening of a low-budget yet highly potent horror movie called Paranormal Activity. The film, which was made by a 39-year-old former video games designer called Oren Peli for only $10,000, will soon be described as $“the new Blair Witch”, will be supported and championed by Steven Spielberg, and will eventually — a full year later — storm to the No 1 position at the American box office for a $90 million ($£54 million) payday.

Bright Star

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:55 GMT

A Christmas Carol

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:15 GMT

An Education

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:10:14 GMT

Tales from the Golden Age

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:07:28 GMT

Now where was I: the uncanny Chris Claremont on rejoining the X-Men

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:37 GMT

Hatred and fear. Themes that never pass their sell-by-date, especially if you read comics. If you're a comic fan, you're already an outcast, a geek, a mutie, but the X-Men are there, standing at your side, and even though their superhero fantasy world is nothing like ours, their emotions are universal; their pain, their joy, their mistakes can be shared by anyone.

Spider-man is part of the family: Marvel artist John Romita Jr opens his heart

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:21 GMT

"Spider-man is a pain in the neck to draw," laughs John Romita Jr. "All those webs!" It's a surprising confession from an artist who has been pencilling the wall-crawler's adventures on and off for more than 30 years. More so when you realise that the man who spun those difficult webs throughout much of childhood was his father, John Romita. Spider-man is an important part of the Romita family.

Jacko tried to buy Spider-man: 70 facts you didn't know about Marvel

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:16 GMT

To celebrate 70 years of Marvel Comics we have dug up 70 nuggets about the comic company - one, however, is an outright fib. Try to guess which one. The answer appears at the end of the piece.

Bright star: how Keats opened a pathway into my soul and imagination

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT

I would not have read Keats’s poems if I had not been avoiding adapting a book for the screen in which the protagonist was a creative-writing teacher. The thought was that before proceeding I should enlarge my knowledge of English poetry and literature. It was on this account that I bought a biography on Keats by Andrew Motion. It was a very big book and I really could not escape learning about John Keats and his poems.

Nowhere Boy at the London Film Festival

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:37 GMT

War films are pernicious lies, says Lebanon director Samuel Maoz

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Films that depict combat as heroic, thrilling or comical are a pernicious and irresponsible misrepresentation of the truth, according to the director of the year’s most acclaimed war film.

A Serious Man at the London Film Festival

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT

The 50 Biggest Movies Of 2010

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:01:32 GMT

It’s an uncertain business, trying to predict next December's ‘Movie Of The Year’ list. This year, it’s trickier than ever, as the reverberations of the credit crunch continue to shake the capricious world of film finance. Even a minor hiccup in funding can delay a film for months or even years until a suitable release slot can be found.

Review and exclusive trailer: Cracks

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Still calling the shots: Manoel de Oliveira, aged 100, can’t stop making films

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Film buffs have an opportunity to witness a unique cinematic document today at a screening of what is almost certainly the first film by a 100-year-old director.