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The latest in our series of writers fondly sharing their go-to mood-lifting films is a journey to the countryside with Robert Altman in charge

Puppetry and silent cinema techniques are used to retell Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel and its film version in a show played for laughs rather than thrills

Springsteen receives Academy fellowship as Raye named songwriter of the year, and Yussef Dayes, Victoria Canal and Speakers Corner Quartet pick up major awards

Sampha and Dayes get nods for best album and share in nomination for Sampha’s song Spirit 2.0, at awards for British songwriting and composition

Two doomed romances are at the heart of this effective show, which deftly weaves together Brittain’s feminist memoir and Novello’s sentimental songs

Entertainer and musician who took on the persona of Dr Evadne Hinge in the comedy duo Hinge and Bracket

One of 12 coronation composers, Farrington’s brief was to reflect the music of the Commonwealth. On the organ. In five minutes. He tells us about a day of the sublime and the ridiculous

Music star Sting will be honored at this year's Ivors, the annual awards honoring songwriters and screen composers, receiving an Ivors Academy fellowship, organisers said on Wednesday. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the UK-based Ivors Academy to those "who have truly reshaped and redefined the art and…

"Benediction," Terence Davies' achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are inextricable, which seems fitting, given how closely aesthetic bliss and moral despair were entwined in Sassoon's own art. In furious,…