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32 Directors Who Made A Really Good Movie On Their First Try

These filmmakers didn't need multiple films to find their voice.

Cinemablend

17 brilliant movies ruined by terrible endings

Louis Chilton selects 17 films that fell at the final hurdle

The Independent UK

17 great movies ruined by terrible endings

Louis Chilton selects 17 films that fell at the final hurdle

The Independent UK

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17 great movies ruined by terrible endings

Louis Chilton selects 17 films that fell at the final hurdle

The Independent UK

Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

The Guardian - UK

The 35 best movies to see before you die – from Raiders of the Lost Ark to Spirited Away

THE LIST: Films can still offer an emotional hit like nothing else. Helen O’Hara and Patrick Smith pick their favourites

The Independent UK

A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh's 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?

In an essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering “why the guy would want to direct a loopy, film noir thriller like mine?”

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The 35 best movies to see before you die – from Spirited Away to Raiders of the Lost Ark

Films can still offer an emotional hit like nothing else – and with coronavirus forcing swathes of us to hole up at home, they’re needed now more than ever. Helen O’Hara and Patrick Smith pick their favourites

The Independent UK

The 35 best movies to see before you die, from Spirited Away to Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Independent UK

20 best film noirs: From The Big Heat to Sunset Boulevard

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

The Independent UK

He hated John Wayne, riled Meg Ryan and sparred with Ali: Michael Parkinson defined the British chat show

With his relaxed charm and Yorkshire brogue, Michael Parkinson got some of the world’s biggest stars to open up. Martin Chilton pays tribute to once-in-a generation broadcaster Michael Parkinson, who has died at the age of 88

The Independent UK

An all-time great: how Michael Parkinson changed British television

He pioneered new formats, could get almost any guest in the world and conducted the best interviews ever. Parky was one of the finest broadcasters of any era

The Guardian - UK

William Friedkin obituary

American director behind two of the great film cult classics of the 1970s: The French Connection and The Exorcist

The Guardian - UK

The Third Man: A Musical Thriller review – atmospheric and eccentric version of classic noir

The songs may not compare to the 1949 film’s zither music, but the design amplifies Trevor Nunn’s elegantly shadowy production

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

The Third Man at the Menier Chocolate Factory review: please, not everything has to be turned into a musical

The creative team has a record of turning unlikely subjects into musical gold. Not this time

The Guardian - UK

The Magnificent Ambersons: rebirth for ruined Orson Welles masterpiece that rivalled Citizen Kane

The studio ‘butchered’ the legendary director’s 1942 film. Now an ambitious project is under way to restore it

Reason

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Is Better Than a Transformers Sequel Has Any Right to Be

It's no Orson Welles as Unicron, sadly. But I'll take it.

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Nicola Walker solves a murder in this top detective drama

Evidence points to a jilted lover in Annika. Plus: a moving documentary about ‘queen of disco’ Donna Summer. Here’s what to watch this evening

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The Guardian - UK

Bros to Casablanca: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Why not try a delicious and hilarious queer rom-com, or let Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman sweep you away in one of the greatest romances of all time

The Guardian - UK

Pssst! Wanna buy an Oscar? The mysterious case of the missing Academy Awards

An Oscar can only, officially, be sold for $1 – but that hasn’t stopped a small but lucrative black market. Where are all those that have disappeared?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: is this David Attenborough’s last ever nature series?

Wild Isles is a wonderful celebration of the natural riches of the British Isles. Plus: a cuttingly funny takes on Molière’s classic play, Tartuffe. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

To Leslie and Moneyshot: the Pornhub Story – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Andrea Riseborough will blow you away in the film she is Oscar-nominated for, and a fascinating documentary about whether the internet will ever be free of pornography

Bangkok Post

Spies in the sky blowin' in the wind

The current "balloon" wars have been quite entertaining in a weird sort of way with a strange mix of espionage, propaganda and porky pies that are just enough to capture the public's imagination. Perhaps secretly we would like one of these unidentified flying objects (UFO) to be something a bit…

Reason

The Covert War on Christmas

Friday A/V Club: That time Orson Welles tried to assassinate St. Nick

The Guardian - UK

‘There was an explosion, and I had to close my eyes’: how TV left 12,000 children needing a doctor

The Japanese government held an emergency meeting and share prices crashed after a Pokémon broadcast. For years, its effects went unexplained – until researchers started digging …

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