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A script for Sex and the City? No, this is my life, says Cynthia Nixon (17 May 04:31) |
| While the crew on the forthcoming Sex and the City: The Movie has spent
the past 18 months desperately trying to keep the plot under wraps, one cast
member has been struggling with a far w... |
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O Lucky Man! Malcolm McDowell's journey from coffee salesman to movie star (17 May 04:31) |
| Before he was anointed as the defiant, anti-Establishment poster boy of If ...
and A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell was a rather promising coffee
salesman, flogging the brown stuff... |
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Indiana Jones’s toughest task – facing the Cannes snake-pit (17 May 04:30) |
| Fears that Harrison Ford, at 65, is too venerable to play Indiana Jones were dispelled yesterday when the actor appeared in fine physical form as he left his hotel for a press conference at ... |
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Gala celebrations as Sir David Lean’s films are restored to glory (17 May 04:30) |
| Cannes is offering few new British films this year but there will be gala
screenings of the late Sir David Lean’s work, given a new lease of life
thanks to digital technology. Crackl... |
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Lead film role for the other Charles Bronson, armed robber (16 May 04:30) |
| Charles Bronson, reportedly Britain's most dangerous prisoner, is the subject
of a new cinema film and has been advising the film-makers from his prison
cell on how he should be charac... |
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Steve McQueen's Maze prison film Hunger shocks Cannes (16 May 02:40) |
| The controversial history of Northern Ireland's troubles was brought to vivid
light in Cannes today with the screening of Hunger, directed by Turner Prize
winner Steve McQueen. |
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Jack Black confirms Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt twin rumours (15 May 03:01) |
| Angelina Jolie and Jack Black are promoting their new film in Cannes today,
after the actor let slip his co-star was expecting twins. |
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Caramel (15 May 04:30) |
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Can Cannes Film Festival get serious? (15 May 04:30) |
| The Cannes Film Festival has the chaotic magic of an old-fashioned
steeple-chase. The favourites always fall at the first hedge and the race
seems to go on forever. The competition... |
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Smart People (15 May 04:30) |
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What’s up with Woody Allen? (15 May 04:30) |
| When Mike Leigh was asked whether he liked the work of his fellow director
Woody Allen, he responded in a way that many of us have been secretly
thinking too: “Radio Days would be on... |
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Charlie Bartlett (15 May 04:30) |
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Joshua Dugdale on the Dalai Lama: the gaze that won me over (15 May 04:30) |
| To the astonishment of the West, the Chinese Government continues to suggest
that the recent demonstrations in Tibet have been instigated by the Dalai
Lama. But this is an old theme. A dee... |
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Revenge is a dish best eaten until we’re sick (15 May 04:30) |
| What is behind the continuing appeal of the revenge movie? We may not endorse
it publicly, but something primal in us roots for the righteous avenger when
we see him or her on screen. I wo... |
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Blindness (14 May 08:23) |
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critic Wendy Ide give her verdict on Blindness |
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Blindness opens the Cannes Festival (14 May 08:23) |
| Watch
critic Wendy Ide give her verdict on Blindness |
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Panda hors d'oeuvres as Cannes awaits Indiana Jones main course (14 May 04:50) |
| Actor Jack Black was joined by nearly 40 huge "pandas" this morning,
to help launch this year's Cannes Film Festival. |
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First review: Sex and the City (13 May 04:30) |
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Kim Cattrall: all work, lust and foreplay (11 May 04:30) |
| The last time I met Kim Cattrall, she introduced me to the first man who had
given her an orgasm. There was an uneasy silence in the drawing room of a
rented Regency terraced house in Lond... |
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Lovers and fighters: women in Indiana Jones’s life (10 May 04:31) |
| MARION RAVENWOOD |
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Dr Indiana Jones, where did you get that hat? (10 May 04:31) |
| Legend has it that Spielberg and Ford personally approached the London hat
specialists Herbert Johnson to make Jones’s famous fedora. Richard Swales,
now retired, was the man given t... |
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With friends like these ... (10 May 04:31) |
| DR MARCUS BRODY |
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They'll be back: five film heroes with lasting power (10 May 04:31) |
| Returning to a role after a lengthy gap can be irresistible, and Harrison
Ford’s return as Indiana Jones after an impressive 19-year break is not even
the longest. Clint Eastwood... |
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Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones: digging up a golden relic (10 May 04:31) |
| I feel sorry for Dr Indiana Jones. He is the most famous archaeologist on the
planet, and yet no one seems to take his lectures remotely seriously. His
field trips are forever being hijack... |
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Me and Mr Jones: is John Hurt the latest Indiana Jones villain? (08 May 04:30) |
| John Hurt is lost for words. The 68-year-old screen legend, former bon viveur
and craggy force of nature is here to talk about his role in the new Indiana
Jones movie, The Kingdom ... |
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What Happens in Vegas... (08 May 04:30) |
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Barbet Schroeder sympathises with the Devil for Terror’s Advocate (08 May 04:30) |
| The French director Barbet Schroeder has always been interested in the faces
of evil. This fascination was behind his revealing documentary about Idi
Amin in 1974 and the 1990 feature film... |
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You say Jehane Noujaim is a dreamer? She’s not the only one (08 May 04:30) |
| Pangea is a name with a mythic allure. Pan Gaea is Ancient Greek for
the Earth when it was just one solid land mass, before it broke up and
drifted apart. Pangea Day – this Saturday ... |
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Speed Racer (08 May 04:30) |
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Manufactured Landscapes (08 May 04:30) |
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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (08 May 04:30) |
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What did Sex and the City do for women around the world? (04 May 04:30) |
| Maria Lobanova is editor of one of the more popular magazines in Russia. “It
is for career girls in their thirties looking for fun, sex and fashion, but
also about politics, money an... |
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Friends reunited: Sex and the City returns (03 May 05:14) |
| The Sex and the City girls shimmied into our lives almost a decade ago
now – and then back out again, off into the Manhattan sunset, four long
years back. But perhaps it was just a m... |
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Rhona Mitra: she's Mad Max in mascara for Brit thriller Doomsday (03 May 04:31) |
| Rhona Mitra once saw a man headbutt another on the terraces at a
Tottenham-Arsenal game. She never forgot the crunching sound of skull on
nose. “I used to have such a fear about ... |
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Step inside the Screen Machine for the ultimate road movie (03 May 04:31) |
| Well, it could be Caribbean or it could be Arctic,” chuckles Graham Campbell
down the phone from Inverness. I’ve asked what the weather will be like for
my trip to the Western ... |
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Coming soon: Great Depression ll (or how Hollywood hopes to profit from gloom) (02 May 08:05) |
| Hollywood loves a crisis. In particular, it loves an economic one. This isn't
because sub-prime mortgage meltdowns make for good screenplays - they don't
- but because cinema a... |
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Uma Thurman 'stalker' case: jury retire to consider verdict (02 May 08:05) |
| A former psychiatric patient accused of terrifying Uma Thurman and placing her
two young children in a “very dangerous” situation is facing a jury's
verdict today. |
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Made of Honour (01 May 04:30) |
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Iron Man (01 May 04:30) |
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Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead (01 May 04:30) |
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P2 (01 May 04:30) |
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Joy Division (01 May 04:30) |
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Nim’s Island (01 May 04:30) |
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Sir Ian McKellen returns as Gandalf in The Hobbit (30 April 08:05) |
| Sir Ian McKellen has said he will reprise his role as Gandalf in the two-film
adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit. |
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Akshay Kumar: The Humble Overseas Superstar (30 April 08:01) |
| “I don’t know about that, maybe I am just lucky,” Kumar humbly replied when I
asked him to analyse his appeal to NRI (Non Resident Indian) audiences. In
addition to the K... |
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Bollywood purists find star's svelte new image hard to stomach (28 April 04:45) |
| For years a fleshy physique was considered a must for an actress aspiring to
break into Bollywood. Now its first “size-zero” female star has the
sub-continent’s c... |
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Last goodbye to Get Carter car park (28 April 04:30) |
| Film buffs had one last chance to visit the multistorey car park made famous
by a Michael Caine gangster movie. |
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Eric Cantona and Ken Loach team up for football film (27 April 04:30) |
| The former Manchester United star and master of mystic bons mots Eric
Cantona is to co-produce a new film about football supporters. |
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The sorry state of masculinity in American movies (27 April 04:30) |
| The appearance of Jason Segel’s genitalia in the romcom Forgetting Sarah
Marshall had American critics crowing about how the film has courageously
broken one of the last taboos in ma... |
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Steve Coogan, weathering the storms (27 April 04:30) |
| At first, it looked like an idyllic working holiday for Steve Coogan. A
month’s filming in Hawaii in August, with his 11-year-old daughter and new
girlfriend in tow, with tip... |
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