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A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh's 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?

In an essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering “why the guy would want to direct a loopy, film noir thriller like mine?”

The Conversation

The 35 best movies to see before you die – from Spirited Away to Raiders of the Lost Ark

Films can still offer an emotional hit like nothing else – and with coronavirus forcing swathes of us to hole up at home, they’re needed now more than ever. Helen O’Hara and Patrick Smith pick their favourites

The Independent UK

The 35 best movies to see before you die, from Spirited Away to Raiders of the Lost Ark

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20 best film noirs: From The Big Heat to Sunset Boulevard

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

The Independent UK

He hated John Wayne, riled Meg Ryan and sparred with Ali: Michael Parkinson defined the British chat show

With his relaxed charm and Yorkshire brogue, Michael Parkinson got some of the world’s biggest stars to open up. Martin Chilton pays tribute to once-in-a generation broadcaster Michael Parkinson, who has died at the age of 88

The Independent UK

An all-time great: how Michael Parkinson changed British television

He pioneered new formats, could get almost any guest in the world and conducted the best interviews ever. Parky was one of the finest broadcasters of any era

The Guardian - UK

William Friedkin obituary

American director behind two of the great film cult classics of the 1970s: The French Connection and The Exorcist

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The Third Man: A Musical Thriller review – atmospheric and eccentric version of classic noir

The songs may not compare to the 1949 film’s zither music, but the design amplifies Trevor Nunn’s elegantly shadowy production

The Guardian - UK

The Third Man at the Menier Chocolate Factory review: please, not everything has to be turned into a musical

The creative team has a record of turning unlikely subjects into musical gold. Not this time

Evening Standard

The Magnificent Ambersons: rebirth for ruined Orson Welles masterpiece that rivalled Citizen Kane

The studio ‘butchered’ the legendary director’s 1942 film. Now an ambitious project is under way to restore it

The Guardian - UK

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Is Better Than a Transformers Sequel Has Any Right to Be

It's no Orson Welles as Unicron, sadly. But I'll take it.

Reason

TV tonight: Nicola Walker solves a murder in this top detective drama

Evidence points to a jilted lover in Annika. Plus: a moving documentary about ‘queen of disco’ Donna Summer. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Bros to Casablanca: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Why not try a delicious and hilarious queer rom-com, or let Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman sweep you away in one of the greatest romances of all time

The Guardian - UK

Pssst! Wanna buy an Oscar? The mysterious case of the missing Academy Awards

An Oscar can only, officially, be sold for $1 – but that hasn’t stopped a small but lucrative black market. Where are all those that have disappeared?

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TV tonight: is this David Attenborough’s last ever nature series?

Wild Isles is a wonderful celebration of the natural riches of the British Isles. Plus: a cuttingly funny takes on Molière’s classic play, Tartuffe. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

To Leslie and Moneyshot: the Pornhub Story – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Andrea Riseborough will blow you away in the film she is Oscar-nominated for, and a fascinating documentary about whether the internet will ever be free of pornography

Bangkok Post

Spies in the sky blowin' in the wind

The current "balloon" wars have been quite entertaining in a weird sort of way with a strange mix of espionage, propaganda and porky pies that are just enough to capture the public's imagination. Perhaps secretly we would like one of these unidentified flying objects (UFO) to be something a bit…

Reason

The Covert War on Christmas

Friday A/V Club: That time Orson Welles tried to assassinate St. Nick

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‘There was an explosion, and I had to close my eyes’: how TV left 12,000 children needing a doctor

The Japanese government held an emergency meeting and share prices crashed after a Pokémon broadcast. For years, its effects went unexplained – until researchers started digging …

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Cormoran Strike is back – and he’s cracking his first cold case

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger reunite for a fifth series of the hit detective series. Plus: Tom Hardy narrates a nature documentary. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - AU

What sort of country are we? That’s the question implicit in Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey

For Australian media, this case is important – it asks whether anyone is free to publish in the public interest a hyperbolic remark about a wealthy media baron

The Guardian - UK

Emancipation to The Amazing Maurice: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Will Smith is impressively fierce in a thriller based on the true life of a Louisiana slave, while Terry Pratchett’s retelling of the Pied Piper story is a quick-witted delight

The Conversation

The 'greatest film of all time': Chantal Akerman's win shows a generational shift is taking place among critics and filmmakers

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman’s 1975 hypnotic study of a mother performing domestic chores in microscopic detail – has just been crowned the “greatest film of all time” in Sight and Sound’s prestigious poll.

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British Film Institute releases latest top 100 film list of all time, but why should you care?

The British Film Institute's once-a-decade Sight & Sound poll has named the greatest movie of all time, but with so many other top 100 film lists kicking about, ABC Radio film critic Matt Neal conducts a data crunch to determine which, if any, is the definitive list, and why they…

The Guardian - UK

Chantal Akerman first woman to top Sight and Sound’s greatest all-time films poll

Film-maker’s 1976 feature Jeanne Dielman pushes Vertigo into second place and Citizen Kane into third

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