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The road to Dunesday: Euronews Culture's massive Fall movie preview

There's still plenty of cinematic goodness to look forward to in the last four months of 2026. Here are our picks for the hotly awaited movies you won't want to miss.

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Taika Waititi promises there's no 'murdering robot twist' in Klara And The Sun

Taika Waititi hasn’t released a film since football documentary Next Goal Wins three years ago, but is now gearing up for his latest project - an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel - to hit screens.

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Japanese mindset of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro: 'We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're...' - inspiring life lessons by Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day teaches why love and loyalty matter more than wealth or status

Life lesson by Kazuo Ishiguro: Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro emphasizes life's true meaning lies in relationships. He notes that as life nears its end, possessions lose their importance. Love and loyalty become paramount, surpassing wealth and social status. Making peace and repairing past wrongs gain significance when time is limited.

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The authors who admit to using AI: ‘I have absolutely no shame about it’

BOOKS: The rise of AI has shaken the publishing industry, seen as a danger to writers’ livelihoods and an existential threat to human creativity. But not everyone is running scared. Annabel Nugent talks to the authors embracing AI in their work

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Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is the first novel from the Nobel laureate since 2021’s Klara and the Sun and draws on the author’s love of music, art and Golden Age cinema

The Guardian - UK

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro announces new novel after 5 years

’Klara and the Sun’ author’s new novel will be set in 1930s England

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Want to illustrate a Kazuo Ishiguro novel?

Entries open for The Folio Book Illustration Award 2026.

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Oscar contenders and women of substance – what to watch, read and see this week

I just finished watching The Studio, Seth Rogen’s hilarious Apple TV satire of life inside an old school Hollywood production company. One of the standout episodes was set in the audience at the Golden Globes. It perfectly captures the peculiar theatre of awards shows: stars smiling and clapping furiously while…

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A Pale View of Hills review – two-stranded adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro novel in the shadow of the A-bomb

Kei Ishikawa’s take on Ishiguro’s first published work is frustrating and bland, undermining its fascinating characters’ emotional truths

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A Pale View of Hills: the legacy of atomic bombings in Japan is explored in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel

How much do any of us really know about who we are? This question haunts director Kei Ishikawa’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982).

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

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The novel that changed my mind – ten experts share a perspective‑shifting read

Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, novels are the moments where that shift happens.

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels are simple and unadorned – no wonder they’re easy to turn into films

INSIDE FILM: Flashy novelists like Martin Amis can never seem to be done right on screen. So perhaps it’s the restrained prose of Ishiguro – the writer behind ‘The Remains of the Day’, ‘Never Let Me Go’ and ‘A Pale View of Hills’ – that makes his work so filmable,…

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Butter author Asako Yuzuki: ‘I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman’

Butter, her novel about a female serial killer, was a global hit. As Asako Yuzuki’s second book is published in English, she talks about criticism at home – and why she’ll be writing darker stories in the future

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Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part one

Your 20s can be an intense decade. In the words of Taylor Swift, those years are “happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time”. Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative era. We asked 20 of our academic…

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King and author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro ‘discussed threat AI could pose to creatives’

The Japanese-born writer, 70, was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature at an event at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

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David Beckham to receive knighthood at Windsor Castle

He will be accepting honours alongside Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sir Kazuo Ishiguro and West End performer Dame Elaine Paige.

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Arise, Sir David Beckham! England legend receives knighthood from the King as proud Victoria watches on

The football star, 50, was given the honour at a star-studded investiture ceremony on Tuesday

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From The Housemaid to Hamnet, these are the book to screen adaptations I’m genuinely excited for

From Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet to Frieda McFadden’s The Housemaid, don’t miss these movies at the cinema

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15 Years Ago, Britain Gave Us The Most Brutally Honest Sci-Fi Movie Of The Century

Led by Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield, 'Never Let Me Go' is still devastatingly prescient.

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Kazuo Ishiguro said he won the Nobel Prize for making people cry – 20 years later, Never Let Me Go should make us angry

Our cultural touchstone series looks at works that have had a lasting influence.

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What if Hitler was assassinated and World War II ended in compromise? Catherine Chidgey imagines a parallel reality

Catherine Chidgey’s ninth novel, The Book of Guilt, has been hotly anticipated. Following the critical and commercial success of her last two novels, it was the subject of a bidding war between UK publishers. The Book of Guilt is also now the first of her books to be released in…

The Guardian - UK

The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey review – this dystopia could have been extraordinary

Alternate political realities are compellingly explored in this sinister vision of a children’s home – but the echoes of Ishiguro are just too strong

The Independent UK

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'When you go from book to film, that’s a fireside moment'

Movies are a regular presence in author Kazuo Ishiguro's life in part because filmmakers keep wanting to turn his books into them

The Independent UK

Kazuo Ishiguro reveals why he prefers unfaithful film adaptations of his books

‘It’s a form of egomania,’ Nobel Prize winner said

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