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Tried and Tested
Cinema
Catherine Deneueve and Juliette Binoche play a mother and daughter whose bond is tested in Hirokazu Kore-eda's follow-up to Shoplifters
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Cinema
Levan Akin's romantic LGBT+ drama shows the struggles of homosexuality in the hyper-masculine world of Georgian dance
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Cinema
In Andrew Haigh's new film 45 Years, Charlotte Rampling & Tom Courtenay play a couple whose relationship is thrown into disarray on the eve of their 45th wedding anniversary
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We've teamed up with Curzon Home Cinema to bring you an online film of our choosing with an exclusive discount. This week, it’s Zvyagintsev’s coarse and earthy social drama Leviathan
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We've teamed up with Curzon Home Cinema to bring you an online film of our choosing with an exclusive discount. This week, it’s Ceylan's poignant masterpiece Winter Sleep
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We've teamed up with Curzon Home Cinema to bring you an online film of our choosing with an exclusive discount. This week, it’s Sorrentino's stunning satire The Great Beauty.
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Cinema
Watch the bitingly intelligent new Swedish film Force Majeure, from director Ruben Östlund. Force Majeure is being lauded as one of the best foreign films 2015.
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We've teamed up with Curzon Home Cinema to bring you an online film of our choosing with an exclusive discount. This week, it’s wickedly funny Swedish psychodrama Force Majeure.
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Cinema
Quirky offbeat comedy Frank stars Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson and a giant, papier-maché head...
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Cinema
New Estonian film Tangerines is at once hopeful and heartbreaking look at the uneccessary sacrifices of war
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Talks
This special screening of new Buttercup Bill film will be followed by a discussion of gender roles in cinema by Sadie Frost & Edith Bowman.
Interview
We chat to actor Jeremy Irvine about shooting in extreme temperatures and why he'll never forgive Jamie Dornan.
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Cinema
Eden film review: this new French film, depicting a fictitious DJ's experience of 1990s electronica is a passionate ode to the genre if a little overlengthy.
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Exclusive
Highlights from the BFI film season include Umberto D., Vittorio de Sica's late and most highly prided work.
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Highlights from the BFI film season include The Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio de Sica's canonical work of Italian neorealism and poverty.
Interview
We chat to Wes Anderson's muse actor Jason Schwartzman about playing prickly characters, new film Listen Up Philip and the wisdom of Bill Murray.
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Cinema
New Juliette Binoche film Clouds of Sils Maria is a meta-theatrical tale of fading celebrity from Paris je t'aime director Olivier Assayas.
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Cinema
Oscar nominated Best Foreign Film Timbuktu; a stunningly shot philosophical exploration of jihad and sharia law.
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Cinema
Feredico Fellini's 8½, with high contrast, stylised imagery wouldn't look out of place in Vogue. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, BFI have digitally remastered this Italian surrealist classic.
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Cinema
The new Hemat film has finally arrived in London cinemas: just make sure you're sitting comfortably.
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Cinema
We can't get enough of Carol Morley's ethereal coming-of-age story about mass psychogenic illness in a sleepy Oxfordshire town.
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Cinema
Alan Rickman directs his second feature, A Little Chaos, a 'Versailles garden movie' starring Kate Winslet and the man of the moment, Matthias Schoenaerts.
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Many know Viggo Mortensen as the actor who plays Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. Now he comes to London for a Curzon Soho Q&A about his latest film, Jauja (director Lisandro Alonso).
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Cinema
Cara Delevigne stars in Michael Winterbottom's latest drama based on the murder trial of Meredith Kercher.
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Fashion
Director Frédéric Tcheng goes behind the scenes at one of Europe’s most illustrious fashion houses. Dior and I, UK cinema from March 27.
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Theatre
Maxine Peake comes live from the Manchester Royal Exchange to participating London cinemas.
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Cinema
Rising star director Xavier Dolan’s fourth feature ‘Mommy’ opens in UK on March 20th.
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Cinema
Damián Szifron and Pedro Almodóvar's savage, laugh-as-you-wince comedy about the most extreme encounters in Argentinian society.
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Cinema
Director writer and actress Desiree Akhavan brings her first debut to UK screens, a refreshingly honest look at the rise and decline of a relationship.
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Cinema
When Lucille Angellier's French town falls under German occupation a German soldier comes to live in the house. Suite Française film is based on Irene Nemirovsky's Second World War novel.
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Of all the new release films, Still Alice is the one to watch. Julianne Moore is fearsomly good and a deserving Oscar winner 2015 for best actress.
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Cinema
New Hungarian film out in London is a canine version of Planet of the Apes, from director Kornel Mundruczo.