Post Views: 9 Sexual subcultures, fetish on film and banned books: Kenneth Anger – a life in pictures Anger in 2010 at the Sprüth Magers gallery, London. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian A look back at the life of American underground experimental film-maker, actor and author, who has died aged 96 A …
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Post Views: 8 Subdued … Perfect Days. Photograph: Mastermind Ltd Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders explores a quiet life in Tokyo Bittersweet tale of an apparently contented toilet cleaner has an ambient urban charm, but feels a little too understated Wim Wenders’s new film, co-scripted by him with writer-director …
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Post Views: 9 Last Summer review – Catherine Breillat’s all too safe version of a dangerous romance Samuel Kircher and Léa Drucker in Last Summer. Photograph: SBS Productions Breillat’s remake of Queen of Hearts rather pointlessly draws the sting from a mother’s affair with her teenage stepson Catherine Breillat has made …
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Post Views: 10 Savage comedy … Chocolate Babies (1996), directed by Stephen Winter. Photograph: – ‘Older straight men hated my films with a vengeance’: how 90s queer film-makers shook up cinema From trans lives to celebrations of drag, queer film pulled no punches as it hit screens in the …
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Post Views: 8 Pretty good despite the material … Katherine Hughes in The Resurrection of Charles Manson The Resurrection of Charles Manson review – evil-hippy horror looks for chills in desert This film isn’t really about Charles Manson, and it’s a total mess, but there’s fun to be found in …
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Post Views: 10 ‘Elton didn’t want Rocketman to glamourise [his life]. Having had my own struggles, I could speak with authority’ …Dexter Fletcher. Photograph: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Dexter Fletcher: ‘I sat on Diana Dors’s knee and she said: “Aren’t you lovely!”’ As told to Rich Pelley The actor …
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Post Views: 8 A strong though not quite commanding presence … Jorma Tommila in Sisu. Photograph: PR undefined Sisu review – grisly feast of extravagant violence as Finnish hero slaughters Nazis Cheerfully entertaining action film follows a granite-faced Finnish gold miner with a hunting knife as he kills the enemy in …
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Post Views: 9 Cannes film festival: the best red carpet looks so far – in pictures Lady in red … Uma Thurman arrives for the opening ceremony. From Dua Lipa to Gigi Hadid, flip-flops to #mermaidcore, the Croisette turned out its yearly assortment of delights Who needs a wind machine? …
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Post Views: 9 Straight out of Avatar … Hang Son Doong in Vietnam A Crack in the Mountain review – scrupulous look at the exploitation of a natural wonder Alastair Evans’s documentary details the struggle to preserve Hang Son Doong caves in Vietnam, which were discovered in 1991 “There was …
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Post Views: 8 Far from a standard gallery tour … Tokyo Stories, part of the Exhibition on Screen strand Tokyo Stories review – artistic immersion into the city’s creative life The Exhibition on Screen documentary series delves into the boundless energy of the Japanese megalopolis Having achieved impressive box office …
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