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Queer cinema: 10 landmark LGBTQ+ films to stream now

From Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane to Céline Sciamma’s instantly iconic Portrait of a Lady on Fire, here are 10 of the films that have defined the history of queer cinema

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TV tonight: Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning star in child-snatch thriller

Blame is hurled when a young boy goes missing from a wealthy family. Plus: David Olusoga’s epic new series about the British empire. Here’s what to watch this evening

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From Tron: Ares to Riot Women: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

There’s another sequel to the beloved 1980s sci-fi classic, and Sally Wainwright’s latest about a new rock band formed of middle-aged women

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Christopher Hobbs obituary

Production designer who worked on Caravaggio and The Garden for Derek Jarman and provided the sets for the BBC’s Gormenghast

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A masterly film that ended in tears

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Mark Kermode on… the revered British director Terence Davies: ‘He had to fight to get every film made’

From Distant Voices, Still Lives to Benediction, the lyrical work of the late director was suffused with the ‘ecstasy’ of cinema – and his fraught Liverpool childhood

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TV tonight: Kirstie and Phil return to take on the UK’s impossible housing market

Location, Location, Location is back to help home-buyers navigate sky-high housing costs. Plus: quickfire tips on how to rid yourself of bedbugs. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Terence Davies: four films that reveal the pain and poetry of the director's own life

Terence Davies, who has died at the age of 77, was a key figure in British and European cinema. The Liverpool-born director extended the formal possibilities of film, and had a unique capacity for depicting memory and personal history.

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Letter: Terence Davies obituary

Brian Baxter writes: He was demanding of his devoted crew but more so of himself

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Terence Davies obituary

Director who drew on his Liverpool upbringing in evocative films such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes

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Terence Davies, filmmaker of the lyrical 'Distant Voices, Still Lives,' dies at the age of 77

British filmmaker Terence Davies has died at the age of 77

The Independent UK

British filmmaker Terence Davies dies at 77

The screenwriter and director was best known for his autobiographical films Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes.

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A poet of pain, ecstasy and epiphany, Terence Davies is a colossal loss to British cinema

Thank goodness Davies experienced his late-career appreciation – he was a director of high seriousness and singularity and a man of vulnerability and true good humour

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Terence Davies, award-winning film-maker, dies at 77

The revered director and lyrical chronicler of working-class life in Distant Voices, Still Lives, died peacefully at home after a short illness

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British screenwriter and film director Terence Davies dies after ‘short illness’

A host of famous faces including Cynthia Nixon and Peter Capaldi have starred in his films.

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TV tonight: Our highlights for Thursday, August 24

Ambulance is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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The top 100 films… and what they say about our changing society

Offbeat British directors defying realist expectations fare well in poll, but Hitchcock dominates

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'Benediction' is a shattering biopic of the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon

"Benediction," Terence Davies' achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are inextricable, which seems fitting, given how closely aesthetic bliss and moral despair were entwined in Sassoon's own art. In furious,…

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Movie review: 'Benediction' a moving biopic about English poet's unconventional life

In Terence Davies’ “Benediction,” a moving portrait of English war poet Siegfried Sassoon, the blessing bestowed is both literal and cinematic. While older Siegfried (Peter Capaldi) receives a blessing from a priest while converting to Catholicism, much to the chagrin of his adult son, George (Richard Goulding), the true benediction…

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Benediction review – artful Siegfried Sassoon biopic full of unresolved yearning

The war poet’s life provides rich material for director Terence Davies to explore his preoccupations with sexuality, religion and the search for redemption

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First Thing: US accuses Russia of holding food supplies hostage

Antony Blinken demanded that Russia lift its blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and suggested the Kremlin was using food as a weapon

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‘I wish I was very good-looking and very stupid’: Terence Davies on sex, death and Benediction

As his Siegfried Sassoon biopic is released, the director opens up about his ill-fated straight romance, being snubbed by Bafta and how it felt to sleep in the bed where his father died

Evening Standard

Benediction movie review: Jack Lowden shines in Terence Davies’ unflattering light as Siegfried Sassoon

Terence Davies’ mercurial portrait of the WWI poet is, at times, ferociously good

The Independent UK

Benediction review: Terence Davies tends to his 20th century tragedies with care

Inspired by the life of Siegfried Sassoon, Terence Davies’s evocative drama is no cradle-to-grave biopic

Daily Mirror

Inside the incredible life of English poet who put horrors of WW1 into verse

Siegfried Sassoon remains one of the most influential war poets for his brutally honest depictions of the realities of war which still hold up more than 100 years after he wrote them

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