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Setting for The White Lotus season 4 announced with significant departure from usual format

New season to feature two White Lotus properties for the first time

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From football to Streisand, here’s what's to come at Cannes 2026

The competition selection for this year's Cannes Film Festival was announced on Thursday, with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, Spain's Pedro Almodovar and Russia's Andrey Zvyagintsev among the 21 directors vying for the coveted Palme d'Or.

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Gillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne to hit Cannes as auteur heavyweights dominate festival lineup

The 79th edition of the film festival will see work by Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda and László Nemes considered for the coveted Palme d’Or

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Films by Almodovar, Pawlikowski and Hamaguchi lead an auteur-heavy Cannes Film Festival lineup

New films by Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Spain’s Pedro Almodovar will premiere at the 79th Cannes Film Festival next month

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Independent Spirit Awards celebrate indie movies and TV in Los Angeles

The Film Independent Spirit Awards shine a spotlight on indie movies and TV as stars like Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne, and Keke Palmer compete for prizes

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Reality winners: the rise and rise of the ‘verbatim’ movie

From Kaouther Ben Hania’s reconstruction of the killing of a five-year-old Gazan girl in The Voice of Hind Rajab to Ira Sachs use of a taped interview in Peter Hujar’s Day, real-life dialogue is being turned into drama

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What to Stream: 'Bridgerton,' the Grammys, Chevy Chase, Rose Byrne and 'The Wrecking Crew'

Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny live at the Grammy Awards and Rose Byrne’s Oscar-nominated performance in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

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The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion

Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year

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‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

‘Peter Hujar’s Day,’ ‘Train Dreams,’ and ‘Sorry, Baby’ lead Spirit Award nominations

Ira Sachs’ film “Peter Hujar’s Day” leads the Film Independent Spirit Award nominations with five nods, including best feature and director

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Ben Whishaw has 'weird' Paddington relationship

Ben Whishaw has a "weird relationship" with the Paddington movies because he feels he has almost "nothing to do with" them.

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Puppies, ghosts and euphoric snogging: the 25 best queer films of the century so far

From coming-out fables and dancefloor make-outs to unsimulated sex and a madcap maternal quest, here is a feast of movies about LBGTQ+ lives

The Guardian - UK

‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz

As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about drugs, orgies and psychoanalysis

The Guardian - UK

Berlin film festival 2025 roundup – a new boss, a flawless fairytale and Ethan Hawke’s finest hour

At a snowy Berlinale, against a backdrop of political divisions, this year’s standouts include Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower, Richard Linklater’s Broadway biopic of Lorenz Hart, and intensely sexual romance starring Jessica Chastain

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Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ben Whishaw goes low-key in snapshot of the photographer’s remarkable life

Whishaw is not tested by this verbatim retelling of Hujar’s day in hip 1970s New York, recounting encounters with Ginsburg, Burroughs and Leibowitz

The Guardian - US

Has the Sundance film festival lost its mojo?

Underwhelming films and some disinterested buyers left many wondering what’s next for the Utah-based festival

The Guardian - UK

‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar

Hujar warmly captured gay life in downtown New York in the 1970s but was little known in his lifetime

The Guardian - US

Jimpa review – Olivia Colman soars in otherwise muddled queer family drama

Australian director Sophie Hyde’s earnest, semi-autobiographical film moves before it starts to meander

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The Sundance Film Festival unveils its lineup including Jennifer Lopez, Questlove and more

The Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of 87 feature films set to debut in January

The Guardian - US

Sundance 2025: Olivia Colman, Jennifer Lopez and Josh O’Connor lead lineup

Next year’s Utah-based film festival will see world premieres of much-anticipated new titles also starring Benedict Cumberbatch, A$AP Rocky and Rebecca Hall

The Guardian - UK

‘I never really learned anything from anybody’: Isabelle Huppert on 50 years in film

The acclaimed French actor answers your questions on Heaven’s Gate, Haneke and hindsight

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2024 Independent Spirit Awards Nominees Announced With Aidy Bryant Hosting

Explore the nominees and categories for the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards, celebrating excellence in independent film and television.

The Guardian - UK

From Passages to Priscilla: film’s biggest fashion moments in 2023

Whether it’s leather jackets loaded with meaning or Emma Stone’s enormous sleeves, costumes are crucial to the look and feel of a movie. We look at the best onscreen clothing of the year

The Independent UK

The best films of 2023, from Barbie and Asteroid City to Killers of the Flower Moon

Leonardo DiCaprio grimaced. Mia Goth killed. Margot Robbie had at least three existential crises. But which of their films came out on top? Our chief critic Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best movies of the year in cinema

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best Halloweens on screen

It’s that horror film time of year, but Halloween scenes cast their spell in classics as diverse as Meet Me in St Louis, Mean Girls and ET

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