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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Stereotypes
Vintage cinema abounds with stereotypes, and it is the hardest element of the genre to watch
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Until August is a final gem from the great Gabo’s imaginative treasury
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books and cinema
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is a very special production indeed
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, books and cinema
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Frank Capra
A Frank Capra picture always embodied what Abraham Lincoln appealed to in US citizens: “The better angels of our nature”
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Goals, glory and gaslighting: the forgotten World Cup
The inaugural Women’s World Cup held in Mexico in 1971 was a tournament of joy. But before long, its participants were ridiculed and dismissed
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Prejudice is back in fashion
John Galliano and the shadow of antisemitism
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Dune Part Two is even better than the first
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Fred Astaire
In the Top Hat dance sequence we see a master dancer at the top of his game
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Horst Buchholz: The man who made Germans cool again
He arrived in the US as the “James Dean of Germany” but that promise would never truly be fulfilled
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: The Picture of Dorian Gray is unmissable
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Garbo and Poitier
The Face is the real storyteller in vintage, and the close-up its greatest tool
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The avenger: French cinema’s Weinstein moment
French actor Judith Godrèche’s allegations of rape and abuse by star directors have opened up a second wave of #MeToo in France
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: One Love is a timely cinematic pageant
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
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Bonnie Greer’s Vintage: Billy Wilder and the spirit of Weimar
Beneath Weimar, beneath that endangered republic, was always the sense that life was fleeting
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The enduring lesson of All the King’s Men
Robert Rossen’s classic is a reminder to Americans that dictators don’t work for the people – they use them as a tool
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is political drama of the highest calibre
Our editor-at-large’s new rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, film and TV
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Living in the city of ghosts
A long (and brilliant) article about Steve McQueen’s long (and brilliant) documentary about Amsterdam under the Nazis, Occupied City
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The beauty and genius of Cary Grant
There is no question in my mind that Grant is the greatest film actor of all time
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The curse of Clouseau
Sixty years on, are the Pink Panther films still funny?
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Edward G Robinson: The Romanian all-American personification of prohibition
The role of Rico in Little Caesar proved as career-defining for Robinson as Frankenstein’s monster was for Boris Karloff or Dracula for Bela Lugosi
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Review: Society of the Snow is worth the nightmares
In JA Bayona, the survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 had the right man to tell their story
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Pierre Boulle, from sabotage to screen
French Resistance spy Boulle took up writing almost on a whim – then
created the basis for two all-time classic films
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The madness in Werner Herzog’s method
Unravelling the secrets of the German film-maker
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America’s belief in the ‘inside job’ will put Trump back inside the Oval Office
Robert Redford portrayal in Three days of the Condor is eerily similar to Trump's contemporary success
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Turn and face the strange: Poor Things rides Greece’s weird wave
Why Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest could be the weirdest Oscar-winner ever
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Here come the remakes
2024 in film is set to be dominated by reboots. There's not much new under the sun
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The Taste of Things review: This gastronomic French tale is a feast for the senses
With meticulous attention to food and how it is prepared, the film’s plot embraces simplicity
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The Three Musketeers: the père of all blockbusters
Dumas’s swashbuckling classic has been filmed 50 times – but the French haven’t tried since the 1960s. Until now...
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The year in film: “Barbenheimer” and the demise of superheroes
2023 went down as the year the superhero movie died. The genre has spun its last web and assembled its last avenger
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Moving pictures… a story of sex and cabbages
A husband-and-wife team filmed a classic Polish novel, then made another film from paintings of it. Why?
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The Wicker Man at 50
How did the strange 1970s British film became a cult classic?
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The wonders of Wenders: the restless film-maker returns
Wim Wenders is back with two very different films... and harsh words for Brexit