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Making any film in the Mojave desert would be difficult – never mind with a wine-swigging, naked Depardieu in tow. Valley of Love director Guillaume Nicloux explains how he did it
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Ahead of a screening of his new film on global warming at the DNC, director calls Trump’s dismissal of environmental science ‘reckless and dangerous’
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Premieres of new films from Ford, Malick and Mel Gibson join highly-anticipated Michael Fassbender/Alicia Vikander romance and Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy on the Lido
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YouTubers send up their profession in a satire that’s surprisingly self-assured
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This is no Bechdel test-brandishing diatribe – Hollywood simply needs to do better if the best part it can find for the fabulous actor is 007’s latest squeeze
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The standup comic and film-maker discusses Don’t Think Twice – his follow-up to Sleepwalk With Me – and why nixing a potential TV show was the right call
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Paul Greengrass and his star have upped the tech and chucked in references to Snowden, but it’s basic Bourne that remains most persuasive
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Until it falls apart in the heavy-handed third act, this is a smart and visually sizzling movie about a livestreamed game with sinister consequences
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Re-enactments of the film’s big scenes enable a hyped-up, hula-hooping crowd in a sing-along with the atmosphere of a drunken sleepover
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At Comic-Con on the weekend, it was revealed that The Woods, Adam Wingard’s new horror, is in fact a sequel to found footage classic The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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Australian actor Margot Robbie describes a Vanity Fair profile of her as a ‘really odd interview’
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A clip from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cold war satire Dr Strangelove, featuring Peter Sellers as mild-mannered US president, Merkin Muffley, and the creepy ex-Nazi scientist, Strangelove
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Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn stars as a successful investment banker threatened by financial corruption in the film
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Watch Guy Ritchie’s take on the legend, which sees Charlie Hunnam play the street urchin who discovers his noble destiny after removing the sword from the stone
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Watch the trailer for the King Kong origins story, Kong: Skull Island in which an intrepid group of explorers discover a remote Pacific island and realise too late that they aren’t its only inhabitants
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This first trailer for the film made its debut at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego over the weekend
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Theatre is pricey and divisive but can a livestream ever capture its flesh and blood thrills? Our film critic decided to find out – by legging it out of Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet at the interval …
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It’s fashionable to update a film or cartoon to account for contemporary mores – but however well intentioned, the original sexism or racism tends to stick. It’s time for new faces to tell entirely new stories
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From the new film of Swallows and Amazons to Harry Potter, Britain is obsessed with a past that never existed. What is this endless Downtonisation all about?
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The release of Star Trek Beyond inspired a special triple-bill of all three of JJ Abrams’s reboots – and even Into Darkness was lapped up by our hardened fan
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The writer-director has mined the darkest of subjects from stalking to rape to paedophilia. In Wiener-Dog he turns his attention to dachshunds and death
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He’s in both the new Star Wars and Bourne films, but it’s Brexit not blockbusters that’s on the rapper-turned-actor’s mind
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The film-maker had had enough of making – and watching – documentaries about social ills, so decided to make a ‘feel-good’ movie about one of America’s most famous motivational speakers
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She has starred in Hollywood blockbusters, costume dramas and, now, The BFG – but despite leading a ‘charmed life’, the actor insists she’s not a ‘perfect, entitled luvvy’
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As he portrays Mr Spock for the third time in Star Trek Beyond, the actor talks about coming out, making the film without Leonard Nimoy and playing Glenn Greenwald in Oliver Stone’s new film
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The writer and star had such a terrible time making The Bourne Ultimatum they vowed to quit the series. So why did they change their minds?
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The film-maker on how growing up in a commune informed his new movie and his mixed feelings about the EU
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Five best momentsFive best momentsFive best moments: Penelope WiltonAs she tackles the Queen in Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, out this week, we look back over the greatest big-screen hits of the Downton Abbey actor
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The film quizThe film quizMatch the president to the movie – quizWith Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton engaging in real world battle to become the next US president, how well do you know their fictional counterparts?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportThe BFG towers over UK box office while Star Trek Beyond fails to prosperSpielberg’s Brit-friendly fantasy opens in the lead, as sci-fi sequel teleports itself to a rebooted series low
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentInternet Famous: vlogging gets the mockumentary treatmentYouTubers send up their profession in a satire that’s surprisingly self-assured
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!The best is silence: why Shakespeare in early film is worth celebratingAs a new DVD shows, in rare and innovative early adaptations of the Bard on film – even when condensed – you don’t need to hear the words to feel the quality
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsZootropolis; Disorder; 10 Cloverfield Lane; The End of the Tour; Stranger Things – reviewDisney’s crazy animal city entertains on many levels, while Winona Ryder is the star attraction in Stranger Things
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When former NFL player Steve Gleason was diagnosed with the muscle-debilitating disease, he started on a film project to explain ALS to his infant son
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Comic-Con is merely the first taste of everything you won’t be able to shut up about for the next year or two, from Wonder Woman to Rihanna in Bates Motel
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They’ve focused obsessively on the lurid and even saw some directors charged for murder – yet a new season of mondo movies argues for their artistic merit
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Inspired by Ronald Blythe’s paean to Britain’s vanishing rural life, Akenfield was directed by Peter Hall to tell the story of ‘three generations in terms of work, belief, education and climate’
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Garry Marshall has died aged 81. Here’s a selection his many achievements as an actor, writer, producer, director and playwright
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Mike Pence hates Mulan, Hitler loved Snow White, and Britain’s new foreign secretary takes inspiration from … Dodgeball. We consider the politicians who read significance – good and bad – into cinema
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The director’s 18th-century epic is legendary for the hardships imposed upon its cast, with 150 takes for a single shot not uncommon. But, four decades on, the film’s stars remain united in praise of this beautiful, slow-burning masterpiece
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The Joker, Nurse Ratched and Lotso the Bear – Peter Bradshaw’s 10 favourite movie villains