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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 rehearsal

Peter Bradshaw in Venice4d ago

‘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 West Bank

Xan Brooks at the Venice film festival4d ago

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 fathom

Ben Child5d ago

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 competitors

Andrew Lawrence5d ago

‘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 to a condition rarely seen on screen

David Shariatmadari5d ago

Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable

A retelling of the 1978 ‘video nasty’ follows an online content moderator faced with steadily more appalling footage but reverts to generic bloodletting

Mike McCahill5d ago

Nessun Dolore review – sketchy Roman fable of liberal white guilt

A white man’s eyes are opened to cruelty and racism when a young boy is thrust into his life in Gianni Amelio’s bold but ultimately naive drama

Peter Bradshaw5d ago

Wild Horse Nine review – Malkovich and Rockwell head to Easter Island for McDonagh’s acid bromance

Venice film festivalTwo men, some violence, much freewheeling chat: so far, so standard fare from the Oscar-winning writer-director. But this time the comedy and charm can feel diluted by blood and machismo

Peter Bradshaw in Venice5d ago

By Any Means review – Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II drama provokes with horror of 1960s racism

Elegance Bratton’s civil rights drama in the Jim Crow south confronts you with almost unbearable brutality

Owen Myers5d ago

Bucking Fastard review – Herzog’s starry twins soap provokes a syncing feeling

Venice film festival: Rooney and Kate Mara play the real-life Chaplin sisters who spoke in unsettling unison in this silly, pointless drama

Peter Bradshaw5d ago

Martin McDonagh says CIA has ‘done awful things all around the world’

McDonagh’s new film, Wild Horse Nine, stars John Malkovich as an agent in 1970s Chile who feels ‘guilt and regret’ over his role in global interventions

Philip Oltermann in Venice5d ago

Falling House review – fierce tale of an Iranian prison guard holding his family hostage

Venice film festival: Mohsen Gharaei’s powerfully acted domestic drama watches as the failing patriarch attempts to contain family rebellion

Xan Brooks5d ago

Tall tales: the 20 best giants in film – ranked!

On the 300th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, we celebrate the biggest film stars of them all – from a stone colossus to a metal-munching alien and a 50ft woman on the rampage

Anne Billson5d ago

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home review – Kirk, Spock and co on semi-intentionally hilarious save-the-whale mission

Our heroes travel back through time to San Francisco in 1986 so they can commune with aliens threatening future Earth – it’s preposterously good fun

Peter Bradshaw6d ago

Lomu review – fascinatingly nuanced tribute to rugby’s first superstar

His destructive pace and power changed the game for ever, but behind the fame and impassive exterior of this gentle giant was a life of chaos and emotional discord

Andrew Pulver6d ago

Ink review – Danny Boyle turns the birth of the Sun into a lurid tabloid frenzy

Venice film festival Jack O’Connell is terrific as editor Larry Lamb in James Graham’s tale of Rupert Murdoch, Page 3 and the newspaper that transformed Fleet Street

Peter Bradshaw6d ago

Female film-makers still being squeezed out of industry, London film festival director says

Over 40% of films in LFF programme are female-made, but only two of 21 gala films are directed by women

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent6d ago

Rupert Murdoch ‘very happy’ that Guy Pearce plays him in Fleet Street biopic Ink

Actor says the press baron’s daughter Elisabeth told him her father was pleased, ‘but he hadn’t seen the film at that point’

Philip Oltermann in Venice6d ago

Mayday review – Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh set cold war bromance alight

An American fighter pilot teams up with a retired KGB officer for hijinks and hilarity in Soviet Russia

Peter Bradshaw6d ago

‘He’s a good man’: George Clooney defends Mark Ruffalo in Paramount-Warner Bros merger row

‘I worry whenever big companies are consolidating,’ Clooney said at Venice film festival, supporting Ruffalo’s right to criticise the deal amid antisemitism accusations

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent6d ago

The Eyes Wide Shut conspiracy theory: did someone cut a crucial 20 minutes from Kubrick’s final movie?

For years some have claimed a key part of the thriller was excised after the director’s sudden death – and that it provided clues to the real-life behaviour of rich predators. Now, his daughter has spoken out

6d ago

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Film stories

Queer Edward II review – funny, touching time capsule of Derek Jarman at work

‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza

Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was one of DC’s few successes. It’s a mystery why she got the chop

A remarkable documentary made by blind students: ‘We were stunned by the footage’

‘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

Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable

Nessun Dolore review – sketchy Roman fable of liberal white guilt

Wild Horse Nine review – Malkovich and Rockwell head to Easter Island for McDonagh’s acid bromance

By Any Means review – Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II drama provokes with horror of 1960s racism

Bucking Fastard review – Herzog’s starry twins soap provokes a syncing feeling

Martin McDonagh says CIA has ‘done awful things all around the world’

Falling House review – fierce tale of an Iranian prison guard holding his family hostage

Tall tales: the 20 best giants in film – ranked!

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home review – Kirk, Spock and co on semi-intentionally hilarious save-the-whale mission

Lomu review – fascinatingly nuanced tribute to rugby’s first superstar

Ink review – Danny Boyle turns the birth of the Sun into a lurid tabloid frenzy

Female film-makers still being squeezed out of industry, London film festival director says

Rupert Murdoch ‘very happy’ that Guy Pearce plays him in Fleet Street biopic Ink

Mayday review – Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh set cold war bromance alight

‘He’s a good man’: George Clooney defends Mark Ruffalo in Paramount-Warner Bros merger row

The Eyes Wide Shut conspiracy theory: did someone cut a crucial 20 minutes from Kubrick’s final movie?

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England v Pakistan, third men’s cricket Test, day one – live

UK ‘showing leadership’ with West Bank sanctions, says Burnham as he faces Badenoch at PMQs – politics live

‘Their boat was sinking’: RNLI vows to keep rescuing asylum seekers despite attacks

How progressives are harnessing anger and frustration to steal young voters from Republicans

EU unveils ‘buy European’ public procurement rules to counter China