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The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion

Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year

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‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

‘Peter Hujar’s Day,’ ‘Train Dreams,’ and ‘Sorry, Baby’ lead Spirit Award nominations

Ira Sachs’ film “Peter Hujar’s Day” leads the Film Independent Spirit Award nominations with five nods, including best feature and director

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Ben Whishaw has 'weird' Paddington relationship

Ben Whishaw has a "weird relationship" with the Paddington movies because he feels he has almost "nothing to do with" them.

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Puppies, ghosts and euphoric snogging: the 25 best queer films of the century so far

From coming-out fables and dancefloor make-outs to unsimulated sex and a madcap maternal quest, here is a feast of movies about LBGTQ+ lives

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‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz

As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about drugs, orgies and psychoanalysis

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Berlin film festival 2025 roundup – a new boss, a flawless fairytale and Ethan Hawke’s finest hour

At a snowy Berlinale, against a backdrop of political divisions, this year’s standouts include Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower, Richard Linklater’s Broadway biopic of Lorenz Hart, and intensely sexual romance starring Jessica Chastain

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Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ben Whishaw goes low-key in snapshot of the photographer’s remarkable life

Whishaw is not tested by this verbatim retelling of Hujar’s day in hip 1970s New York, recounting encounters with Ginsburg, Burroughs and Leibowitz

The Guardian - UK

Has the Sundance film festival lost its mojo?

Underwhelming films and some disinterested buyers left many wondering what’s next for the Utah-based festival

The Guardian - US

‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar

Hujar warmly captured gay life in downtown New York in the 1970s but was little known in his lifetime

The Guardian - UK

Jimpa review – Olivia Colman soars in otherwise muddled queer family drama

Australian director Sophie Hyde’s earnest, semi-autobiographical film moves before it starts to meander

The Guardian - US

The Sundance Film Festival unveils its lineup including Jennifer Lopez, Questlove and more

The Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of 87 feature films set to debut in January

The Independent UK

Sundance 2025: Olivia Colman, Jennifer Lopez and Josh O’Connor lead lineup

Next year’s Utah-based film festival will see world premieres of much-anticipated new titles also starring Benedict Cumberbatch, A$AP Rocky and Rebecca Hall

The Guardian - US

‘I never really learned anything from anybody’: Isabelle Huppert on 50 years in film

The acclaimed French actor answers your questions on Heaven’s Gate, Haneke and hindsight

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2024 Independent Spirit Awards Nominees Announced With Aidy Bryant Hosting

Explore the nominees and categories for the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards, celebrating excellence in independent film and television.

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From Passages to Priscilla: film’s biggest fashion moments in 2023

Whether it’s leather jackets loaded with meaning or Emma Stone’s enormous sleeves, costumes are crucial to the look and feel of a movie. We look at the best onscreen clothing of the year

The Independent UK

The best films of 2023, from Barbie and Asteroid City to Killers of the Flower Moon

Leonardo DiCaprio grimaced. Mia Goth killed. Margot Robbie had at least three existential crises. But which of their films came out on top? Our chief critic Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best movies of the year in cinema

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Streaming: the best Halloweens on screen

It’s that horror film time of year, but Halloween scenes cast their spell in classics as diverse as Meet Me in St Louis, Mean Girls and ET

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Even the French are giving up on arthouse films. Is this the end of a cinematic era?

French cinema risks being sacrificed on the altar of market forces; it would be an incalculable loss, says the journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld

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Passages review – body language speaks volumes in seductive three-way love story

Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski are brilliantly believable in Ira Sachs’s exploration of a gay marriage that’s challenged when one partner has a passionate affair with a young woman

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‘You feel the director’s eyes on your body’: How Passages became the saddest, sexiest movie of the year

The year’s most provocative film sees a gay couple (played by Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski) left shattered when one of them embarks on an affair with a woman. Tom Murray speaks to Rogowski and director Ira Sachs about criticism, sex scenes and our fascination with love triangles

The Guardian - UK

Lanthimos’s Poor Things fuels speculation of sex scene’s return to cinema

Director’s latest film has more explicit scenes than almost all modern studio-backed features

Evening Standard

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in September

From K-Bran twiddling Poirot’s whiskers at Michelle Yeoh in A Haunting in Venice to John David Washington battling to save humanity in Disney’s much anticipated The Creator, we round up the 13 best films to see in September

Evening Standard

Passages movie review: Ben Whishaw triumphs in this rousing return to the New Wave

This turbulent story of a love triangle in Paris is sensitive and superbly acted

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: Grant Shapps is the UK’s new defence secretary – but is he up to the job?

In today’s newsletter: The former energy secretary starts his fifth cabinet post in the past year, but questions remain about his military nous

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