Festivals
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Sally Potter’s The Party, Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House and a magical refugee story from Aki Kaurismäki stood out. But this year’s real Berlinale finds came from Chile and China…
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Only Dave Gilmour, with whom Roger Waters has a poor relationship, was missing from a press conference at the V&A
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Melbourne’s new Asia Topa performing arts festival – a four-month-long juggernaut of shows from across the Asia Pacific region – is part of a growing trend towards telling non-Anglo stories
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Past lovers Nina Hoss and Stellan Skarsgård border on the unlovable in this slow-paced drama, but Volker Schlöndorff’s film rewards patience for its final twist
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The BBC’s five-part miniseries, adapted from Len Deighton’s novel, holds up handsomely on the big screen, favouring film noir style over pulp content
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Joe Ramirez has created a new art form: a spellbinding fusion of film and painting. We watch the American work his magic
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The Finnish screenwriter employs his usual sensitivity to highlight the experiences of two men who flee their homes and form an unlikely friendship
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Penélope Cruz rescues this frequently silly comedy, set on a 1950s film set in Franco’s Spain, as a larger-than-life actor in a part-entertaining, part-exasperating tale
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The Carnival of Viareggio has been one of the most spectacular Italian folk events for 144 years.
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Rising Chilean director Sebastián Lelio celebrates the endurance of a woman under suspicion of murder in a film that could bring the first major acting award for a transgender performer to Daniela Vega
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Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a cabinet minister hosting one of those dos at which shock revelation follows shock revelation, in Sally Potter’s short, smart comedy
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Marx and Engels meet cute in this intense, fervent film about the early development of communism from I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck
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Rafael Kapelinkski’s debut, playing at the Berlin film festival, is a stylish, black-and-white, social-realist pastrol, which proves so adept in comedy a genre-shift might have been in order
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Tucci writes and directs this amusing, occasionally Beckettian, episode from the life of the great painter, in which he forever delays an American admirer (Armie Hammer) from returning home
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Even starring with her very similar-looking daughter, Huppert seems disconnected from this dismal family drama. And as a tennis coach, she’s no Judy Murray
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From the actor’s rarely seen character comedy to an immersive version of Moulin Rouge: your at-a-glance guide to the best in culture
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He jammed for the Nazis and aided the resistance, but this tale of guitar genius Django Reinhardt’s war falls flat due to slack tempo and poor characterisation
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The world’s largest short film festival has a new lease on life, but will it learn from past mistakes?
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The music festival amid Wiltshire foliage returns with an eclectic selection of psych, indie and Americana
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Musician to follow the likes of David Bowie, Patti Smith and David Byrne in choosing the lineup for the Southbank Centre event
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If festival crowds can unite to help a crowdsurfer, they can unite against sexual assault
Jonathan SeidlerLaneway festival’s new sexual harassment hotline is a great initiative – but it’s only necessary because we don’t step in to help
Hungarian slaughterhouse love story wins top prize at Berlin film festival