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<p>‘The blood started to run in my veins again’: Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell on the set of ‘The King of Comedy’ </p>

How Scorsese helped rescue two of our best filmmakers from anonymity

The legendary director’s long-time editor Thelma Schoonmaker speaks to James Mottram about their three-decade mission to restore the works of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger – visual geniuses whose Technicolor fantasias were once at risk of being forgotten

<p>Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn in ‘The Phantom Menace’</p>

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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace has finally proved the haters wrong

<p>‘I learnt about classism from a very young age – that my circumstances weren’t good enough for some people’</p>

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Hilary Swank: ‘I take the high road on a lot of things, but not that’

<p>Desk becomes her: Daisy Ridley as office worker Fran in ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying'</p>

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Has Daisy Ridley beaten the Star Wars curse?

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<p>Dunaway as Bonnie Parker, the role that made her famous around the world </p>

Faye Dunaway, the screen star punished for her independent spirit

Ahead of a new film about Dunaway premiering in Cannes, Geoffrey Macnab looks at how the ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ actor went from the A-list to appearing in B-movies – a cautionary tale of how Hollywood often marginalises strong women

<p>‘Women in Love’ stars left to right: Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden and Eleanor Bron</p>

Why Women in Love is one of Britain’s most misunderstood masterpieces

A newly restored version of the 1969 romantic drama arrives at the BFI this week. Geoffrey Macnab looks back at a film that was as profound as it was provocative, by a maverick director who was never given his due...

Reviews

<p>One of the apes of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’, as played by Eka Darville</p>

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has great apes, but stale humans

<p>Josh O’Connor in ‘La Chimera’ </p>

Josh O’Connor embarks on a treasure hunt in the dreamy La Chimera

Interviews

<p>‘In those moments, you’re so heated up’ – Tatiana Maslany reflects on calling Disney CEO Bob Iger ‘out of touch’ </p>

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She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany on Marvel, Mark Ruffalo and child acting

<p>Billie Piper stars in ‘Scoop’, about the BBC’s quest to interview Prince Andrew: ‘I realised, Oh my God, there are these unsung women behind the story’ </p>

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Scoop’s Billie Piper: ‘Any abuse of power makes me feel sick and furious’

<p>‘I have a soapbox to stand on and something worth saying’ </p>

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Olivia Williams on playing Queen Camilla and her ‘harrowing’ time on Friends

<p>‘We’ve seen the celebration of being gay, of gay marriage, of having children and all of those wonderful things, but not so much the splitting up’ </p>

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Luke Evans on fashion, marriage and body image: ‘I wasn’t pretty or flawless – I looked like a bloke’

<p>Ernie Hudson: ‘We can say it’s a racial thing, but I think if Eddie Murphy had played the role I played, he would have been paid very well’ </p>

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Ernie Hudson on the new Ghostbusters sequel and the ‘disappointing’ 2016 reboot

<p>‘The most important thing for me in my career was to have arrived playing someone like that – a free woman’</p>

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The White Lotus’s Simona Tabasco on fame, sex scenes and being buried alive for her new film

<p>Scream queen: Caroline Munro in the classic Hammer horror film ‘Dracula AD 1972’ </p>

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Hammer Horror icon Caroline Munro on sex, violence and 007

<p>Viswanathan: ‘I have such a baby face... you can dress me up, dress me down, do whatever you want’</p>

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Drive-Away Dolls’s Geraldine Viswanathan wants to be your next romcom queen

Features

<p>‘There was no way I was going to get into anything that was scandal-based or disrespectful’: Marisa Abela and Jack O’Connell as Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil in ‘Back to Black’ </p>

‘Approval from the family? That wouldn’t work for me’: Inside the making of Back to Black

<p>Hinata Hiiragi and Sōya Kurokawa in the award-winning Japanese drama ‘Monster’</p>

Inside Monster, the groundbreaking new film exploring queer childhood

<p>The title screen for the cult 1992 video game ‘Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis’</p>

How a revolutionary video game rescued Dune from obscurity

<p>Smiling evil: Sandra Hüller as Hedwig in ‘The Zone of Interest’</p>

The Zone of Interest and the making of a radical Holocaust film

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<p>Dark side of the moon: Sofia Boutella portrays the troubled rebel Kora </p>

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Rebel Moon is a Star Wars rip-off that breaks George Lucas’s rules

<p>Don’t call it a comeback: Mel Gibson in ‘The Beaver’, Johnny Depp in ‘Jeanne du Barry’ and Lindsay Lohan in ‘The Canyons’ </p>

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Johnny Depp and the rich history of the shambolic comeback film

<p>Once upon a time in southern France: Quentin Tarantino at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023</p>

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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘10 films’ rule will ultimately damage his legacy

<p>Bored, games: Margot Robbie has announced she is developing a film adaptation of Monopoly</p>

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Margot Robbie’s Monopoly movie is a very depressing idea

Flashbacks

<p>Gorgeous, willowy and insouciant: Anna May Wong in ‘Island of Lost Men’ </p>

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Anna May Wong and the mystery of Hollywood’s first Chinese-American star

<p>Nineties greats: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair lead the cast of ‘Cruel Intentions’</p>

How Cruel Intentions compiled the best soundtrack in teen movie history

<p>Lead duo Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, neither of whom were the first choice for their roles </p>

Blazing Saddles at 50: The story of the wackiest western ever made

<p>Fond of your face: Bridget Fonda at a premiere in 1999, and in films ‘Single White Female’, ‘Scandal’ and ‘Jackie Brown’</p>

Bridget Fonda at 60: the Nineties great who vanished without a trace

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