Features
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Six of the great European film shoots
Europe has long been used as the backdrop for some of our best-loved movie classics. Thanks to its rich cultural significance, charming street squares, ornate architecture, gorgeous cuisine and lively nightlife, it’s impossible to not consider Europe as the ultimate movie location. Everything seems more exotic when you get lost in the romantic aura of…
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A beginner’s guide to Brussels’ film festivals
People visit the Brussels area all the time, especially business people, due to its status as a political metropolis with the headquarters of the EU. You’re also not too far away from Ypres which is steeped in history and is the graveyard for many brave soldiers from both world wars. While it doesn’t quite rival…
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The future of Bourne
The name’s Bourne, Jason Bourne. The initials may be the same, but that’s pretty much where most comparisons to James Bond end. The Bourne character was created by Robert Ludlum, who wrote three novels around the CIA assassin who suffers from severe memory loss.The first book was adapted into a film starring Matt Damon, in…
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Cinema’s most epic shootouts
Action films are great. They allow you to escape reality and immerse yourself in adrenaline-fuelled drama that has you on the edge of the seat. To celebrate Ben Wheatley’s upcoming Free Fire, here are the most epic shootouts in movie history. If you haven’t heard about Free Fire yet, add it to your calendar of things to…
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Feature: Buster Keaton 1917-1923
“This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show.” So says Buster on a visit to the titular playhouse in a 1921 short where the stony-faced actor-director appears simultaneously as spectator, conductor, performer and musician on a programme with only one name – his own. Revelling in the union of cinematic invention and the inner…
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Feature: Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev
“About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters,” W.H. Auden wrote in his poem on Brueghel. The words could easily have applied to both the subject and the creator of Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1966 masterpiece. A film about suffering and art, the spiritual journey towards transendence, and the muddy, sodden reality of day-to-day…
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Oscars 2016: DiCaprio wins first Oscar
Diversity may have been the word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Academy Awards but there was only one headline by the end of the night: Leonardo DiCaprio winning his first Oscar for his role in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant. Predictable wins for Brie Larson (Best Actress) and Alicia Vikander (Best Supporting Actress) preceded…
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Baftas 2016: The Revenant wins big three
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant scooped three of the biggest awards at tonight’s Baftas including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for its lead star Leonardo DiCaprio. The film took a total of four accolades on the night, putting it level with George Miller’s technical category-dominating Mad Max: Fury Road. Elsewhere, Brie Larson won…
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Oscars 2016: Revenant, Mad Max lead noms
Following hot on the heels of last week’s Bafta nominations in London as well as the weekend’s telling Golden Globe results, at 1.30pm GMT today the list of nominees for this year’s 88th Academy Awards were broadcast across the globe. With presenting duties split between Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee, as well as John…
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Golden Globes 2016: Revenant takes spoils
In what was perhaps the strongest indication yet of which films will walk away with what at next month’s Academy Awards ceremony, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant dominated this year’s Golden Globes with wins for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for leading man Leonardo DiCaprio. Elsewhere there were also victories for The Martian…