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    • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
      Documentarist Frederick Wiseman — 44 films in and still on the clock

      The 93-year-old has never lost his appetite for recording the lives and toils of ordinary people. Now he’s ready for lunch

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      InterviewLunch with the FT
      Tom Hanks: ‘I was a pretty lucky guy’

      The actor on Hollywood’s AI dilemma, resisting his nice-guy reputation — and why Jeff Bezos couldn’t tempt him into space

    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Review
      Six films to watch this week

      Bradley Cooper stars as Leonard Bernstein in ‘Maestro’; Disney fairy tale ‘Wish’ marks the studio’s centenary; Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke face Airbnb apocalypse in ‘Leave the World Behind’; Tilda Swinton takes two roles in ghostly chiller ‘The Eternal Daughter’; Joaquin Phoenix stars in Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’; Todd Haynes’s ‘May December’ pits Natalie Portman against Julianne Moore — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney

    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      The Eternal Daughter — double Tilda Swinton haunts ghostly hotel chiller

      Eerie story — with humour and hound — is an unexpected but welcome departure for British filmmaker Joanna Hogg

      Tilda Swinton dressed as  middle-aged woman sitting on a bed
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Wish — a cautious Disney fairy tale caught between old and new

      Lavish animation is designed to celebrate studio’s past century without ruffling contemporary feathers

      An animation film still of a young girl and a  goat staring at star hovering nearby
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Leave the World Behind — Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke face Airbnb apocalypse

      A luxury getaway on Long Island is blighted by bad WiFi — and even worse — in a film that upends archetypes

      Actors Mahershala Ali, Myha’la Herrold, Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Maestro — Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein is electric and intelligent

      The director masters rhythm and mood while ebulliently starring as the conductor alongside Carey Mulligan

      A man conducts an orchestra
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Leonard Blavatnik
      Leonard Blavatnik’s entertainment empire plans media acquisition spree

      Access Entertainment boss says Ukraine-born billionaire to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in TV, film and theatre

      Danny Cohen
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived TV review — touching story of Harry Potter stunt double

      Daniel Radcliffe-produced documentary spotlights a man who was paralysed after being injured on set

      Two teenage boys with their arms around each other’s shoulders smile with wide grins
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: November
      Jewellers not out of the frame during Hollywood strikes

      Despite a lack of exposure on screen or on red carpets, designers have found fruitful ways to promote themselves

      Actress Lili Reinhart in a cream dress wearing Chopard jewellery to an evening event
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Tish film review — graceful tribute to a great British photographer

      Tish Murtha and her bold, vivid work are the focus of a beautiful documentary by Paul Sng

      A woman sits by a lake smoking, a pond behind her
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Review
      Saltburn — Emerald Fennell’s class comedy is Highsmith without the wit

      Barry Keoghan plays a Merseyside lad invited to summer with aristos in a film wired with shock tactics

      A young man surveys the aftermath of a party on the lawn of a stately home
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      May December — Natalie Portman inhabits Julianne Moore in arch comic drama

      Todd Haynes’s intensely meta film follows an actor preparing to play a convicted sex offender

      A woman holding a notepad watches another doing her make-up
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Review
      The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes recaptures the old groove

      Viola Davis and Jason Schwartzman add cameo fizz to franchise revival

      A woman with big grey hair and one white eye wearing a brightly patterned purple blouse
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterCities on screen
      The many faces of cinematic Copenhagen

      Hitchcock classics, urban grit, a supernatural soap opera: the Danish capital’s starring roles go way beyond Nordic noir

      A scene from the 2020 Danish film ‘Another Round’ in which a man is drinking from a champagne bottle while a crowd of young people cheer him on
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Interview
      Leonard Bernstein’s daughters on the biopic Maestro: ‘Take it from us, it is uncanny’

      They heap praise on stars Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, even though the film covers uncomfortable ground

      Bradley Cooper, smiling, sits with his arm around Carey Mulligan. Both hold a cigarette
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Napoleon — Ridley Scott’s lairy epic of military genius and rapid-fire sex

      Joaquin Phoenix portrays an all-conquering but cuckolded emperor opposite Vanessa Kirby’s brittle Josephine

    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Residential
      Fantasy home: the apartment in the French film, Passages, which conjures up an inkling of adulthood 

      For our young writer, the Paris abode and the emotional journey of its inhabitants represents a paradigm of cosmopolitan living

    • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
      Tom Faber
      Can a Zelda film ever live up to the beloved game? This fan is sceptical

      Video games give players the raw materials to tell their own stories — a vital ingredient that cannot be translated into film

      A still image from Nintendo’s ‘Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom’
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Media
      Hollywood snaps back into action after actors reach deal to end strikes

      Industry contending with shrinking budgets races to make up for lost time ahead of crucial season

      People celebrate the end of the 118-day strike
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Review
      The Eternal Memory — portrait of a loving couple living with Alzheimer’s

      Maite Alberdi’s documentary about a former TV journalist and his actress wife captures both warmth and anguish

      A man sits on a sofa reading a book and a woman sitting next to him leans against him affectionately
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Review
      Dream Scenario — Nicolas Cage haunts people’s sleep in wry comedy

      Film about a professor finding baffling global fame riffs on the actor’s pop-culture punchline status

      A middle-aged man carrying a shoulder bag walks across a car park; behind him, a car has the word ‘Loser’ graffitied on it in large letters
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Anatomy of a Fall — top-drawer thriller of gravity and complexity

      Sandra Hüller excels as a novelist accused of murder in Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning film

      A man and a woman stand amid a snowy mountainous landscape; they are looking away from each other
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Review
      The Marvels — sugar-rush charm lifts a film of tonal spaghetti

      Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani and alien cats make up for an underpowered Brie Larson

    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Every Man for Himself and God Against All — Werner Herzog’s reality check

      The German director takes us on a fantastical journey following his pursuit of ‘ecstatic truth’

      A man in a white T-shirt stands in front of a paddle steamer on wooden tracks in a jungle with a parrot on his shoulder
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