Orlando
Sally Potter is one of Britain’s busiest multimedia directors, but her work rarely reaches mainstream audiences. Her adaptation of a gender-bending novel by Virginia Woolf is unlikely to be any different, says Charlie Phillips
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Cinema’s Missing Children
The abduction of children is never an easy subject, but that doesn’t mean it’s off-limits. Antonio Pasolini reviews a new book which examines the ways in which cinema has tried to address the issue
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Sex is Comedy
Catherine Breillat’s new film revisits a scene from a previous movie, and makes it into the subject of a fictional ‘making-of’ documentary. Edward Lamberti thinks it’s a bit too clever for its own good
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Anger Management
In his last film, Punch Drunk Love, Adam Sandler played a downtrodden joe with anger management problems. So what’s different about his new one? Tim Smedley provides the answer
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Wrong Turn
Six stranded teenagers, an isolated forest, and enough twisted hicks to fill a country log cabin. It should be the roadmap to the perfect slasher movie – but Wrong Turn is off-course from the start, says Paul Clarke
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This new film from the writer of The Colour Purple has stirred up a storm of controversy for its portrayal of the young Adolf Hitler as an angry young artist in post-WWI Munich. Antonio Pasolini wonders what all the fuss is about
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The Accidental Spy
He’s pushing fifty, he’s broken more bones than an orthopaedic surgeon, and he’s made some dire films in Hollywood – but Michelle le Blanc and Colin Odell reckon that in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan’s still the (drunken) master
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To Kill A King
Oliver Cromwell’s problems with the royalists were nothing compared to the financial troubles that beset this British film. Charlie Phillips reviews a civil war story that fails to live up to its promise
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The Hill and Beyond: Children’s Television Drama – An Encyclopedia
Bagpuss. Marmalade Atkins. Grange Hill – when it was still good. There’s no doubt about it: kids TV was much better in the old days, and now there’s a book to prove it. Andy Murray applauds the bfi’s definitive guide to children’s drama
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A Quick Chat with Rebecca Bagley-Cook
She’s just made a romantic comedy with Superman’s girlfriend, and her next film’s about a loony John Lennon impersonator. Thessa Mooij catches up with young New York director Rebecca Bagley-Cook
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La Spagnola
The success of films like Strictly Ballroom and Muriel’s Wedding has often obscured the diversity of contemporary filmmaking Down Under. Michelle le Blanc and Colin Odell review a very un-Australian Aussie comedy
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L’Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)
Cédric Klapisch’s latest film centres on the lives and loves of a multi-national group of exchange students in Barcelona – but Ben Walters reckons it doesn’t make the grade
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The Tribeca Film Festival 2003
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert de Niro to revitalise the Tribeca area of New York after the events of September 11th. Now with a new director at the helm, Thessa Mooij reports on the festival’s second year
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8 Mile
Not content with being one of the world’s most successful recording artists, with Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mile, Marshall Mathers made his first move into the world of film. Paul Clarke enjoys Eminem’s latest incarnation as the Rocky of rap
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With the nation currently glued to their television screens to watch a bunch of very ordinary people doing very little, it’s a good time for Edward Lamberti to look back at one of Hollywood’s sharpest media satires – Sidney Lumet’s Network
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