arts
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SAG awards: Hidden Figures and Stranger Things win big as actors get politicalScreen Actors Guild gave top prizes to the stars of the fact-based Nasa drama and the sci-fi show while powerful speeches against Donald Trump took center stage -
John Hurt, widely admired stage and screen actor, dies aged 77Distinctive-voiced actor was Oscar nominated for Midnight Express and the Elephant Man, as well as being the victim of the notorious ‘chestburster’ in Alien
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Matthew McConaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’The actor reveals how his risk-taking, high-rolling parents inspired his biggest gambles – and why they’ve paid off -
I don't pretend to be perfectDrew Barrymore is back on our screens, this time as a flesh-eating estate agent. She tells Rebecca Nicholson about the endless ups and downs of her life – from child star to teen rebel, and savvy producer to business woman – and explains why she’ll ‘fight to the death to be happy’
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There are films that really mark you. Loving is one of those for meThe Ethiopian-Irish actor has shot to fame thanks to a now Oscar-nominated performance in the interracial marriage drama Loving.
Sundance 2017
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Strong Island – an authentic, painful journey into injusticeYance Ford’s extraordinary documentary on the murder of his brother is part journalistic examination, part devastating essay on grief for black US families
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Nobody Speak – Hulk Hogan v Gawker doc enjoyable but not revelatoryBrian Knappenberger’s film skewers its targets with aplomb, but there’s a frustrating sense of the converted being preached to
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Rebel in the Rye – JD Salinger drama catches attention but sinks into clicheNicholas Hoult plays the author in a watchable but shallow take on creativity and the process of writing a classic
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Casting JonBenét – magnificent provocation to the very notion of truthKitty Green’s avant garde documentary allows people auditioning to play JonBenét Ramsey and her family to expound their conspiracy theories about the unsolved murder of the child beauty pageant star
people
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Brian Eno: 'Donald Trump is a complete disaster'Eno takes to Facebook to clarify his position after US rightwingers interpreted his Guardian interview as supportive of the new president
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Everybody knows the German clichés. Maybe they're trueThe star of the Oscar-tipped German comedy talks about growing up in East Germany and why one film – however good – is unlikely to change preconceptions about her country
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the big picture
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Come fly with me: the glorious heyday of Pan Am –in picturesPan American’s flights across the Pacific and the Atlantic brought air travel to ordinary people – with great visual flair
reviews
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Gold – the priciest ore is a bore in Matthew McConaughey misfireAn allegedly true story emerges as a lackluster riff on American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street with a scrappy turn from an overly disguised lead star
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Beware the Slenderman review – documentary on a deadly memeA harrowing and nuanced look at the notorious online figure who inspired two 12-year-old girls to stab their friend
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pictures & video
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A life in picturesJohn Hurt, the legend of screen and stage whose prolific and varied career has spanned six decades, has died aged 77
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Architecture photography corner – in picturesGeometry Club is a collaborative Instagram project in which people submit images of buildings forming carefully composed triangle shapes
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The actress remembered in picturesFrench actor Emmanuelle Riva has died at the age of 89. Best known for her roles in Hiroshima Mon Amour in 1959 and Amour in 2012, here we look back at her career.
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Cocteau sins: Les Enfants Terribles by the Royal Ballet – in picturesThe Barbican in London is staging a new production of Philip Glass’s dance-opera based on Jean Cocteau’s sensational novel Les Enfants Terribles. Step inside the surreal world of two siblings’ deadly games
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SAG awards 2017 Full list of winners