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Norman Foster: A reputation built to last
A film about Norman Foster has made its debut in Berlin. The architect makes for a gripping subject, says Geoffrey Macnab
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Bollywood Podcast: Shah Rukh Khan on My Name Is Khan
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Never has a Bollywood movie had so much anticipation in the Western and overseas markets. A number of factors contribute to the excitement surrounding the release of My Name Is Khan.
Polanski's new film is haunted by the present
Saturday, 13 February 2010
The spirit of the Iraq Inquiry hangs over Roman Polanski's new film, 'The Ghost', which premiered in Berlin last night
Jeff Bridges - A triumph against all odds
Friday, 12 February 2010
That Crazy Heart was made at all is a miracle. And now its star, Jeff Bridges, is hotly tipped to win the Best Actor Oscar. Guy Adams reports on how it happened
No longer Miss Innocent
Friday, 12 February 2010
Amy Adams has cornered the market in wide-eyed ingenues. But, she tells Rosamund Witcher, she's not as pure as she looks
Indy Choice: Best of the new films
Friday, 12 February 2010
Whether you want to take a trip to the cinema or save those pennies and stay at home with a DVD, here's a selection of the best films for you to watch this weekend.
Party Of The Week: A fiesta for film folk
Friday, 12 February 2010
Comedy stars shared some laughs and tips at the London Evening Standard Film awards on Monday night.
Bad taste: A film exposes the secrets of the food industry
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Artificially-enhanced chicken breasts, patented soya beans - viewers will need a strong stomach, says Tim Walker.
Percy Jackson: Gods and monsters
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Chris Columbus had huge hits with Harry Potter and Home Alone. Will lightning strike again with his new boy hero, Percy Jackson? Nev Pierce reports
The Last Station: Exclusive Christopher Plummer video interview
Monday, 8 February 2010
Christopher Plummer stars alongside Helen Mirren and James McAvoy as Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in Michael Hoffman's new movie The Last Station.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
The Princess and the Frog, U
A jolly take on the Brothers Grimm fairytale, hand-drawn in glorious 2D, about a hard-working waitress who dreams of opening a restaurant in olden-days New Orleans.
Nationwide
A Single Man, 12a
Colin Firth gives a moving central performance in Tom Ford’s directorial debut, as an English professor domiciled in Los Angeles in 1962 who is mourning the recent death of his lover in a car accident.
Nationwide
A Prophet, 18
A thrilling, visceral and intense prison-gangster drama, charting the rise to criminal prominence of a French-Arab man while he serves a six-year sentence.
Nationwide
Anonyma: a Woman in Berlin, NC
The harrowing story of the rape of German women by Red Army officers after the Battle for Berlin. It’s a horrifying chapter of history, made bearable by the director’s visual restraint.
Limited release
Letter from an Unknown Woman, U
A BFI re-release of the classic 1948 melodrama. It’s a lush, elegantly told but very sad tale of a one-sided romantic obsession in 1900s Vienna.
Limited release