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Fantastic Foxes in Leicester Square, spies in Cambridge, bicycles at the Barbican: the pick of the autumn film festivals
Wednesday, 09 September 2009
Does Britain have too many film festivals? Not so very long ago, there were only two of these games around: the London Film Festival - which unveiled its full line-up this morning and begins on 14 October - and Edinburgh. Now, though, there are hundreds.
Does Britain have too many film festivals? Not so very long ago, there were only two of these games around: the London Film Festival - which unveiled its full line-up this morning and begins on 14 October - and Edinburgh. Now, though, there are hundreds.
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Dune review - awesome display of sci-fi world-building
Timothée Chalamet leads a sterling cast in Denis Villeneuve's sandy science fiction epic
Blu-ray: La Dolce Vita
Fellini's prescient vision of a paparazzi-dominated world
The Velvet Underground review - Todd Haynes tunnels through band history
Ingeniously composed documentary portrait, with John Cale the definitive star
Blu-ray: The Lighthouse (Mayak)
Subdued, elegiac meditation on wartime life in the Caucasus
Gabriela Montero, Kings Place review - improvising to a Chaplin classic is the icing on a zesty cake
Grabbing the audience and never letting go at the start of the London Piano Festival
DVD/Blu-ray: Another Round
Thomas Vinterberg's superbly ambivalent drama about drinking in Denmark
DVD/Blu-ray: Maigret - The Complete Series
Entertaining, idiomatic Simenon adaptation, brilliantly cast
No Time to Die review - Daniel Craig’s bold, bountiful Bond farewell
Craig’s fifth and final outing as 007 is a genuine gamechanger
Blu-ray: Johnny Guitar
Nicholas Ray's operatic Western gets the revival treatment
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life review - a complex portrait of a complex man
Occasionally reverential documentary about the British neurologist
Gagarine review - hazy cosmic jive in a Paris banlieue
Cité of dreams: Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh's glowing debut feature
The Ballad of Billy McCrae review - beware the quarryman's beautiful daughter
Welsh neo-noir packs a nasty punch but falls short
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