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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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 Independent UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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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National Cinema Day 2023: What to watch on the big screen this Saturday

12 of the best films you can see this Saturday for as little as £3

Evening Standard

Passages review: The highly publicised sex scenes are just one small part of this gut-wrenching drama

Ben Whishaw, Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos make up the sexually fluid love triangle at the heart of the film

The Independent UK

Passages review – Ira Sachs strikes gold with sophisticated love triangle

A gay man cheats on his husband with a straight woman in this fiercely sexy and heartbreaking tale of young Parisians

The Guardian - UK

The best movie love triangles that bring the romantic drama

From Passages to Past Lives, movie love triangles are back on the big screen. Here are 10 of the best of all time

WhatToWatch

Napoleon, Scorsese and Wonka at the pictures: the best films to see in autumn 2023

The season’s star turns include Ridley Scott’s portrait of the great French warrior, a true-crime western from an American great and Timothée Chalamet in a chocolatier origin story

The Guardian - UK

Adèle Exarchopoulos: ‘Film shoots are like little summer love stories’

The French star of Blue Is the Warmest Colour and new film Passages talks sex scenes, avoiding Hollywood and eating Toblerones in Jane Birkin’s bath

The Guardian - UK

‘Ben has a great pelvis and it’s wonderful to show it’: Ira Sachs, Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw on their erotic new film

Rogowski and Whishaw star in Passages, Sachs’ film about a gay couple whose marriage is upturned when one has an affair with a woman. They talk power struggles, micro-gestures and a sex scene that proved too much for US censors

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‘I didn’t have a second thought’: why Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson are stripping off on screen

In films like No Hard Feelings, Joy Ride and Asteroid City, full-frontal female nudity is back. What has changed in the #MeToo era?

The Independent UK

Adele Exarchopoulos says LGBTQ+ community’s Blue is the Warmest Colour complaints were ‘stupid’

‘I didn’t really see the argument,’ French actor said

Cinemablend

I'm Not Surprised Red, White And Royal Blue Got An R Rating, But The Director Was, And His Question About The Film's Queerness Makes A Lot Of Sense

While I wasn't shocked Red, White & Royal Blue got an R rating, Matthew López was, and his question about the film's queerness impacting it makes sense.

The Independent UK

Movie Review: Passion and love get messy in Ira Sachs’ smoldering ‘Passages’

The new film “Passages” is centered on Tomas, a German living in France with his English husband Martin who begins an affair with a French woman, Agathe

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The Independent UK

Ira Sachs wanted to make 'a film of intimacy.' It got him an NC-17 rating

Ira Sachs never set out to make an NC-17-rated film

Los Angeles Times

Sundance sensation 'Passages' gets an NC-17 rating. Its director calls that 'censorship'

LOS ANGELES — The upcoming film "Passages," directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, has received a rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association, the Los Angeles Times has exclusively learned. A decision has been made by the project's partners to release the film unrated.

The Independent UK

Inside the Sundance Labs, which have helped launch some of Hollywood's top filmmakers

The Sundance Institute might be best known for its annual film festival in Park City, Utah, but the screenwriting and directing labs have been just as, if not more, influential in helping to launch the first films of many of Hollywood’s top filmmakers over the past 40 years

ABC News

Sydney Film Festival 2023 program: Highlights chosen by our film critics

In its 70th year, the festival program boasts almost 300 films — from international heavy hitters and award-winners to lesser-known gems and trailblazing debuts. Here are nine you can't miss.

Evening Standard

Sundance Film Festival London: our pick of this year’s highly anticipated films

11 feature films have been specially selected for London’s 10th birthday edition

Los Angeles Times

For film lovers, Sundance matters as much as ever. Here are 19 (more) reasons why

PARK CITY, Utah — The 2023 Sundance Film Festival came to a close Sunday, capping the festival’s first in-person edition since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020. Los Angeles Times film reporter Mark Olsen and film critic Justin Chang sat down to discuss what they saw and liked…

The Guardian - US

Passages review – Ira Sachs excels with thorny love triangle drama

The writer-director makes a return to form with an explicit, emotionally bruising film about a bisexual narcissist

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