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Pete’s Peek | Derek Jarman’s Edward II on DVD
Its 1990, Margaret Thatcher was on her way down, but the Tories were still strangling Britain as well as the human rights of gays and lesbians throughout the land. Visionary director Derek Jarman, who...
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At the Cinema | I Am Love – Ice queen Tilda melts in passionate Italian...
With her upper-crust poise and aloof beauty, Tilda Swinton looks perfectly at home in the elegant patrician world depicted in Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s remarkable film I Am Love (Io sono...
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I Am Love – Grand passions: Forbidden love amid Italy’s upper class
A lush romantic melodrama that harks back to the heady days of Visconti and Antonioni, I Am Love is blessed with a contemporary star who pulls off the film’s grand passions magnifcently. Tilda Swinton...
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Film review | We Need To Talk About Kevin – Bad seed or bad mom? Tilda’s Eva...
Tilda Swinton delivers one of the finest performances of her career as an American woman grappling with grief and guilt in the aftermath of a terrible crime committed by her teenage son in We Need To...
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The Oscars 2012 – Who will win? Who should win? Who’s missing?
Who’s going to make the biggest noise at this year’s Oscars? Will silence prove golden for hot favourite The Artist? Will The Help clean up? Or will The Descendants inherit all the glory? With the...
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DVD review | We Need To Talk About Kevin
Unaccountably overlooked by the Oscars this year, Tilda Swinton delivers one of the finest performances of her career as an American woman grappling with grief and guilt in the aftermath of a terrible...
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Pete’s Peek | Sally Potter’s bold and beautiful Orlando on Blu-ray
Sally Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender bender 1928 literary classic, Orlando: A Biography, is a sumptuous affair, and certainly looks more that it cost (some £4m), making wondrous...
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Cinema Made in Italy 2013 – London’s Italian film festival kicks off tonight
Cinema Made in Italy 2013 kicks off tonight at the Ciné Lumière in South Kensington with screenings of Magnificent Presence (Magnifica presenza), the latest movie by Le fate ignoranti director Ferzan...
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The Zero Theorem | Film review – Christoph Waltz startles in Terry Gilliam’s...
Terry Gilliam created a surreal comic masterpiece with his 1985 film Brazil, but he fails to pull off the same feat with this similarly retro-futuristic dystopian tale, The Zero Theorem. Christoph...
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Only Lovers Left Alive | Film review – Tom & Tilda’s undead lovers ooze...
Forget Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. The long-lived undead lovers played by Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton in cult director Jim Jarmusch’s highly unconventional vampire movie Only Lovers Left Alive...
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