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Cate Blanchett’s Electra/Persona at the National Theatre is a surreal triumph

Written and directed by Benedict Andrews, Electra/Persona is two plays conjoined. The first is a version of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy Electra, and the second is a stage adaptation of the 1966 Ingmar Bergman film Persona.

The Conversation

Electra/Persona review – Blanchett and Hoss face off in lopsided Sophocles/Bergman double bill

Benedict Andrews’ intense, interval-free mashup of ancient and modernist classics is a show of two halves

The Guardian - UK

‘Not just Hollywood crap’: Mike Leigh on the East End communist who brought world cinema to the UK

A new season celebrates Contemporary Films and its founder Charles Cooper, who bet on Britain taking to Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu, Satyajit Ray – and a young Mike Leigh

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Quote of the day by Woody Allen: 'If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.' Life lessons from motivational quote on embracing risk, accepting mistakes, and pushing creative boundaries

Quote of the day by Woody Allen: ‘If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.’ The quote looks at failure as part of innovation. It suggests that people who try new ideas may make mistakes. The message focuses on risk, learning…

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Hazy sunshine, factor-50 smiles and Cliff Richard at the wheel: the 20 best summer holiday movies – ranked!

From feelgood romances to heated interactions, here are the films that best capture the seasonal moment

The Guardian - UK

‘People say I’m pouring Coca-Cola into fine malt whisky’: why is the National Theatre shaking up Sophocles?

In a bold new production starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, the NT is fusing Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. So what can two stories written 23 centuries apart tell us about how we live today?

The Guardian - UK

Faithless review – if you understand some of the baffling choices in this show, please let us know

This reboot of a 2000 film, based on a script by the great Ingmar Bergman, features some extremely odd camera work and a very strangely written female lead. But it’s frequently bewitching

The Guardian - UK

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Letitia Wright, Cate Blanchett and Sandra Oh to star in National Theatre shows

Lineup for 2026 includes a Molière adaptation and a mash-up of Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman

The Guardian - UK

Hope and the memory of a house: Joachim Trier on 'Sentimental Value'

Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner ‘Sentimental Value’ is Joachim Trier’s most personal film to date. It opens in the UK today and Euronews Culture sat down with the director to discuss one of this year's finest and most emotionally resonant movies.

Euronews

Outcry as Swedish ‘cultural canon’ snubs Abba and anything since 1975

‘Shared map’ of Swedish culture that ignores everything since 1975 is ‘nationalist education project’, argue critics

The Guardian - UK

Monster Chetwynd on her Tate Modern installation for kids

Artist Monster Chetwynd on her family-focused Tate Modern installation which was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s The Magic Flute

Evening Standard

Alexander Skarsgård ‘threw in the towel’ on acting career at 13 after early fame ‘crushed’ him

The ‘Murderbot’ actor is the son of fellow star Stellan Skarsgård

The Independent UK

Willem Dafoe eyes reunion with Robert Eggers for Werwulf

Willem Dafoe is in negotiations to reunite with his Nosferatu director Robert Eggers for the filmmaker's 13th century horror flick Werwulf.

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Actor Stellan Skarsgard calls legendary director a ‘Nazi’

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Stellan Skarsgard says ‘Nazi’ Ingmar Bergman ‘cried when Hitler died’

The Swedish actor worked with the late director in theatre and television

The Guardian - US

Stellan Skarsgård on Ingmar Bergman: ‘The only person I know who cried when Hitler died’

Actor spoke at Karlovy Vary film festival about his experience working with ‘manipulative’ director in the 80s

The Guardian - UK

From Alice to Zelig via Rosemary’s Baby: Mia Farrow’s 20 best films – ranked!

As the Hollywood royal turns 80, we remember her greatest film roles that include an acting masterclass in Full Circle and a heartbreaking turn in The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Independent UK

11 epically long films that won’t waste your time, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: In honour of Brady Corbet’s 215-minute epic ‘The Brutalist’ receiving 10 Oscar nods, Annabel Nugent and Jacob Stolworthy select 11 other movies with mammoth runtimes that are worth the investment

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Nosferatu director Robert Eggers 'working on 13th century werewolf movie'

'Nosferatu' filmmaker Robert Eggers is reportedly working on new horror movie 'Werwulf'.

The Guardian - UK

Your Fault review – bizarre and wooden step-sibling romance

Sequel to unaccountably popular Amazon Prime hit finds the same oldsters still out to stop the forbidden young lovers necking in glamorous locations

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Nosferatu director Robert Eggers reveals which horror classics inspired the movie

'Nosferatu' director Robert Eggers has revealed the horror classics 'The Innocents', 'Queen of Spades' and 'Cries and Whispers' were the biggest inspirations for his upcoming scary flick.

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall

Wallpaper

Feel like a movie? The top 50 films of all time according to Marcio Kogan

Marcio Kogan's top 50 films of all time; the architect taps into his passion for the moving image and shares with us his recommendations

Wallpaper

How guest editor Marcio Kogan, during a visit to the movies, ‘discovered that something else exists in the world, real poetry’

Marcio Kogan is a guest editor of Wallpaper* October 2024. In his dedicated section, we discover how the world of cinema’s loss was architecture’s gain when a feature film failed but a dream space creator rose from the ashes

The Guardian - UK

‘Ashamed. Embarrassed’: Jerry Lewis’s infamous Holocaust clown film that never was

A new documentary explores the mystery behind The Day the Clown Cried, a never-finished, never-released 1970s movie set in a second world war death camp

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