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Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, and Simon Helberg star in this phantasmagoric, Sparks-written movie musical, directed by Leos Carax
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From the new Sparks musical Annette, starring Adam Driver, to the thrice-delayed Bond movie No Time To Die with Daniel Craig, here's a list of great films coming in September
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Edgar Wright's first foray into documentary filmmaking examines the eccentric and underrated pop-rock duo Sparks. Interviewees include Mike Myers, Neil Gaiman and Duran Duran
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Black Widow has often stayed on the sidelines. Cate Shortland directs the standalone prequel starring Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz and David Harbour
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In Azazel Jacobs' new dark comedy, Michelle Pfeiffer plays a Manhattan widow who spends her entire inheritance and has to move to a flat in Paris. Lucas Hedges also stars
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Former Dogma 95 filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Festen) makes a drunken Danish odyssey about four teachers who experiment with daily drinking. Mads Mikkelsen stars
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From the new Sparks musical Annette with Marion Cotillard to Wes Anderson's latest film The French Dispatch starring Frances McDormand, here are the Cannes movies we're excited for
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Supernova follows Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), a middle-aged gay couple. They embark on a campervan journey across the Lake District after a dementia diagnosis
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Lin-Manuel Miranda earned Tony awards for In the Heights as well as Hamilton – now his story of a tight-knit Latin-American community comes to the big screen. Anthony Ramos stars
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Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in Florian Zeller's directorial debut The Father, adapted from his play. Hopkins plays Anthony, a man with dementia trying to piece things together
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Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds and Cillian Murphy star in this incredible sequel to John Krasinski's sound-sensitive horror film A Quiet Place
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Emma Stone stars in this surprisingly fabulous solo prequel, examining the origins of Cruella de Vil. Emma Thompson and Mark Strong also star
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Toby Jones stars in Kelly Reichardt's latest film. Set in 1820, First Cow follows Cookie (John Magaro) and Lu (Orion Lee) as they steal milk to bake scones for money
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In her directorial debut, Billie Piper plays Mandy, a single mother who enters a dysfunctional relationship with the misogynistic Pete (Leo Bill). David Thewlis and Lily James also star
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In Chloé Zhao's stunning, Oscar-nominated drama, Frances McDormand stars as an unemployed widow who travels across the American West to find work
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In this semi-autobiographical film from Lee Isaac Chung (Abigail Harm), Steven Yeun stars as a father pursuing the American Dream – moving his family to a potential farm in Arkansas
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Shaka King's new biopic about Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) examines his assassination, facilitated by FBI informant William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield)
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Following up God's Own Country, writer/director Francis Lee speculates on the possible relationship between 19th-century palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan)
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From Chloé Zhao's picturesque journey through the American west in Nomadland to Emerald Fennell's controversial rape-revenge thriller Promising Young Woman, here are this year's Oscar winners
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To celebrate the reopening of the BFI Southbank, we talk with the head of programming Stuart Brown about what they have in store from 17 May
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Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell makes her directorial debut with Promising Young Woman, a colourful, uncomfortable revenge drama starring Carey Mulligan
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Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley and Benedict Cumberbatch star in Kevin Macdonald's difficult legal thriller, following the harrowing story of Mohamedou Slahi
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This Sussex-based spy thriller follows British Intelligence agent Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard) going undercover as a teacher in a Nazi finishing school run by Miss Rocholl (Judi Dench)
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Irvine Welsh co-writes this infectiously punky biopic of music manager Alan McGee, played by Ewen Bremner, who signed bands like Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Oasis
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In Julie Taymor's new biopic, Alicia Vikander and Julianne Moore both portray feminist icon Gloria Steinem at different stages of her life. Bette Midler also stars
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Amy Poehler directs this feminist Gen-Z drama, set in a high school where sexism and toxicity are running rife. The introverted Vivian (Hadley Robinson) decides to act
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Lee Daniels' biopic examines the last 10 years of Billie Holiday's life, as she endures addiction, abuse, and a conviction by the US government. Andra Day stars
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In To Olivia, Hugh Bonneville and Keeley Hawes star as Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal, who endure a devastating loss and try to move past it
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In this dark, satirical thriller, Rosamund Pike stars as a swindling guardian of elderly clients. But her schemes are foiled when she crosses a Russian mobster (Peter Dinklage)
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Director Paul Greengrass directs this new Western, following the travelling newsreader Kidd (Tom Hanks) as he escorts a German girl (Helena Zengel) back to her family
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Zendaya and John David Washington star in this housebound relationship drama from Euphoria writer Sam Levinson
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Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Johnny Flynn and Lily James star in this 30s period drama about the excavation of Sutton Hoo