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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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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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Reason

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

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…

Bangkok Post

The Covert War on Christmas

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

Reason

‘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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TV tonight: Cormoran Strike is back – and he’s cracking his first cold case

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger reunite for a fifth series of the hit detective series. Plus: Tom Hardy narrates a nature documentary. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - AU

What sort of country are we? That’s the question implicit in Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey

For Australian media, this case is important – it asks whether anyone is free to publish in the public interest a hyperbolic remark about a wealthy media baron

The Guardian - UK

Emancipation to The Amazing Maurice: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Will Smith is impressively fierce in a thriller based on the true life of a Louisiana slave, while Terry Pratchett’s retelling of the Pied Piper story is a quick-witted delight

The Conversation

The 'greatest film of all time': Chantal Akerman's win shows a generational shift is taking place among critics and filmmakers

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman’s 1975 hypnotic study of a mother performing domestic chores in microscopic detail – has just been crowned the “greatest film of all time” in Sight and Sound’s prestigious poll.

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British Film Institute releases latest top 100 film list of all time, but why should you care?

The British Film Institute's once-a-decade Sight & Sound poll has named the greatest movie of all time, but with so many other top 100 film lists kicking about, ABC Radio film critic Matt Neal conducts a data crunch to determine which, if any, is the definitive list, and why they…

The Guardian - UK

Chantal Akerman first woman to top Sight and Sound’s greatest all-time films poll

Film-maker’s 1976 feature Jeanne Dielman pushes Vertigo into second place and Citizen Kane into third

The Independent UK

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time poll: The 2022 results are in – and there’s a new winner

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ was pushed into second place

Chicago Sun-Times

Creepy and morbid, ‘The Malignant Ampersands’ is ultimately just too confusing

“The Malignant Ampersands,” is a new play by Brett Neveu that A Red Orchid Theatre describes as a “very unofficial sequel” to Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons.” But is it really?

The Guardian - UK

‘High octane visions’: the blurred, distorted genius of photographer William Klein

He captured the energy of New York’s streets, revolutionised fashion photography, then made savage, censored films about the west. His scope, imagination and influence were simply immense

The Guardian - UK

The most memorable moments in film, as picked by readers in 2000

The shower scene in Psycho featured on the Observer readers’ list, but only in second place. By Chris Hall

The Guardian - UK

Leslie Megahey obituary

Director of arts documentaries whose subjects ranged from Orson Welles to 17th-century painters

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