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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

‘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 Guardian - 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

The Independent UK

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.

Cinemablend

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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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

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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.

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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

Evening Standard

Sundance Film Festival: Our selection of the festival’s most anticipated films

Here are the films to keep your eye on, as the major festival is just around the corner

The Independent UK

After 2 virtual years, Sundance returns to the mountains

After two years of virtual editions, the Sundance Film Festival is returning to Park City, Utah, armed with a robust slate of diverse features and documentaries that will premiere over 10 days beginning on Thursday

The Independent UK

Sundance Film Festival unveils lineup for 2023 edition

Documentaries about Brooke Shields, Judy Blume and Michael J

Bangkok Post

LGBTI Film Festival set to kick off on June 4

With tremendous success in 2021, Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok is hosting the LGBTI Film Festival again next month, showcasing more classic LGBTI films as part of exclusive screenings in collaboration with the US embassy, Goethe Institute and Alliance Française Bangkok.

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