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Matilda the Musical kicks off the London film festival as Netflix banks on Roald Dahl

The rights to Dahl’s work has been the streaming service’s most expensive content deal to date, so Matthew Warchus’s new film needs to work its magic

The Guardian - UK

And the Oscars go to... why Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett are among the frontrunners for awards in 2023

As awards season starts, our expert reveals what the recent film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto tell us about the front runners for next year’s big film prizes in Los Angeles

Evening Standard

Toronto film festival 2022 roundup – Spielberg, Mendes and a deep, joyous love of cinema

Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes offered paeans to the silver screen, Viola Davis dazzled as a gung-ho warrior and Daniel Craig brought the house down

The Guardian - UK

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Here are the breakthrough films that premiered at this year's Toronto Film Festival

The first fully reopened edition of TIFF concludes this weekend. But with a film industry still reeling from box office declines and changing audience habits, the award season remains in flux.

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Life through a lens: Spielberg’s latest leads triple-whammy of movies about movies

It’s the subgenre beloved by insiders but often shunned by audiences. Can new films from Sam Mandes, Damien Chazelle and Steven Spielberg satisfy cinemagoers and awards voters?

The Guardian - UK

From Spielberg to Inarritu: Evaluating the season's many styles of personal filmmaking

TORONTO — There's a terrifically self-reflexive gag in Steven Spielberg's new picture, "The Fabelmans," that is hard to imagine anyone but Steven Spielberg pulling off. This might not be saying much, since the entire movie, a rollicking and ruminative look at the director's childhood and teenage years, could hardly have…

Los Angeles Times

Sam Mendes: the next James Bond film should be directed by a woman

The director of Skyfall and Spectre addressed a key behind-the-scenes aspect of the Bond franchise

The Guardian - UK

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Empire of Light movie review: you’ll fall for Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward in Sam Mendes’ ode to cinema

This nostalgic film celebrates the unmatched power of the cinematic experience

Evening Standard

Skyfall filmmaker Sam Mendes says next James Bond film should be directed by a woman

Oscar-winning filmmaker says it would be ‘wonderful’ to see a woman directing Bond

The Independent UK

Magic of Cinema in Focus as Mendes Celebrates Toronto Festival Comeback

As crowds finally flocked back to the Toronto film festival after two years thwarted by Covid-19, Hollywood's top directors from Sam Mendes to Steven Spielberg put the escapism and collective experience of cinema in the spotlight with their latest films debuting at the event. "American Beauty" and "1917" director Mendes…

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Empire of Light review – Olivia Colman shines in Sam Mendes’ darkening hymn to cinema

The ‘love letter to the movies’ genre is revived in this poignant, wonderfully acted drama about love, life and films

The Guardian - UK

Will Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth host a statue of the Queen?

Plans for the exhibition spot were put on hold following the Queen’s death

Evening Standard

The winners and losers of a muted Telluride Film Festival

TELLURIDE, Colo. — The Telluride Film Festival has long cherished its image as an oasis for movie lovers, tucked away in a remote Colorado box canyon, free from the cares of the world.

Los Angeles Times

Cate Blanchett delivers a Telluride 'Tar' de force, but Olivia Colman can't save 'Empire of Light'

TELLURIDE, Colo. — When Cate Blanchett took the stage Saturday evening for her Telluride Film Festival tribute, right after a screening of her astonishing new movie, "Tar," the audience must have enjoyed a bit of a chuckle. Most audiences that get a post-screening Q&A with Blanchett — and there will…

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Oscar hopefuls set to bow as Telluride Film Festival unveils its secret lineup

Set in a remote box canyon in Colorado’s rugged San Juan Mountains, with nary a red carpet or paparazzo to be found, the Telluride Film Festival has prided itself for nearly 50 years on its low-key, all-about-the-movies ethos. And this year’s edition, which kicks off Friday, may feel even further…

Inverse

You need to watch the best James Bond movie of the century on Netflix ASAP

This 2012 thriller is a stunning piece of popcorn entertainment. Now that it's available again on Netflix, you need to stream it ASAP.

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a powerful record of Myanmar’s potential war crimes

This essential – if at times distressing – Dispatches documentary chronicles Myanmar’s ruling army killing peaceful protesters. Plus, Extraordinary Portraits. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Two shows dominated the Tony awards and proved Broadway’s debt to British taxpayers

Sam Mendes’s The Lehman Trilogy and Marianne Elliott’s Company took 10 prizes between them and demonstrated the power of UK subsidised theatre

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Evening Standard

Tony Awards 2022: Full list of winners from Simon Russell Beale to Sam Mendes

The Tony Awards were back for the first time since 2019

Evening Standard

British talent scoops top prizes at 75th Tony Awards

Best leading actor in a play went to veteran actor Simon Russell Beale and the direction categories were dominated by Sam Mendes and Marianne Elliott

The Guardian - US

Tony awards 2022: Company and The Lehman Trilogy lead big night for Brits

Broadway transfers of West End shows were out in front at this year’s celebration of the best of New York theatre

Tribune News Service

Tony Awards 2022: Who will win, who should win?

The Tony Awards are coming. So who’s going to win?

Daily Mirror

Ben Stokes to be subject of Amazon documentary charting heroics and off-field struggles

A documentary about England Test captain Ben Stokes will be available on Amazon Prime later this year, charting the highs and lows of the all-rounder's life and career

The Independent UK

Ben Stokes to be subject of Amazon documentary created by Sam Mendes

The 30-year-old will open up on his World Cup and Headingley heroics as well as his off-the-field troubles

The Independent UK

Cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins says knighthood is not just for him

The famed cameraman, who said being knighted made him ‘very nervous’, credited his collaborators with his success.

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