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  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Review
    Mediha — Yazidi teenager tells her story in a compelling documentary

    Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad records her everyday life and talks about her time as an Isis captive in Hasan Oswald’s film

    A close-up image of a young woman shows her with her hands covering her ears
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Review
    Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy — marketing tricks and their effect on the planet exposed

    Former Amazon, Unilever and Adidas execs lift the lid on a vicious circle of excessive production and addictive consumption

    Women in a store pile their trolleys high and clutch armfuls of boxed colourful products
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Review
    The Piano Lesson — superb performances lift August Wilson adaptation

    John David Washington and Danielle Deadwyler excel in story of a man trying to buy the land where his ancestors were slaves

    In a scene set in the 1930s, a man and a woman stand confronting each other; in the background two men sit at a table, looking on
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Review
    Wicked — Cynthia Erivo excels and Ariana Grande steals scenes in zesty return to Oz

    The green-faced witch gets a sympathetic origin story in a musical of endless glittering pizzazz

  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Interview
    Cannes prizewinner Payal Kapadia: ‘In India identity comes in the way of a lot of things’

    The director of ‘All We Imagine as Light’ discusses big city lives, urban migration and Mumbai’s violent gentrification

    Kani Kusruti (centre) as Prabha, a nurse, in the film
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Review
    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat — dizzying history of colonialism, murder and jazz in the Congo

    The 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba is at the core of a fiercely intelligent, freewheeling documentary

    A man runs away from an open-topped car holding aloft a sheathed sword; in the car are two men viewed from behind, one wearing white military uniform and saluting; bystanders look on and photographers take pictures
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Review
    Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point — a sprawling and original winter warmer

    Four generations make merry on Long Island in a bewildering and charming ensemble comedy-drama

    A large group of people of all ages are squeezed around a long table laden with food; Christmas decorations hang in the background and candles are placed along the table
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Review
    Joy — Bill Nighy gets borderline spiky as obstetrician who pioneered IVF

    Thomasin McKenzie and James Norton also star in 1960s-set Netflix film about the first ‘test tube baby’

    Two men and a woman wearing medical scrubs stand together, smiling gently; one of the men is holding a baby
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
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    Fortress seizes control of art house cinema chain Curzon

    Private equity group scooped up chain for $5mn following dispute with US real estate billionaire Charles Cohen

    People wait outside the Curzon Soho cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue in London
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Review
    Gladiator II — more pulpy, loopy and fun than the original

    Ridley Scott cranks up the barbarism in a swaggering sequel starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington

  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    InterviewTelevision
    Director Janicza Bravo: ‘I’m into bad vibes, things that are rotting’

    Her BBC series ‘The Listeners’ turns an eye for the uncanny on the story of a woman plagued by a mysterious hum

    A woman in plaid trousers, dark top and baseball cap sits on a metal garden chair, leaning forward and looking intently into the camera
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    FT Series
    HTSI meets the arts stars of the AW24 season

    The shows are on and you’ve read the reviews; now revisit our interviews with the people transforming stage and screen this season

    Cillian Murphy
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Interview
    Actor John David Washington on living up to the family name

    The star of ‘Tenet’ and ‘BlacKkKlansman’ discusses taking on ‘The Piano Lesson’ and why his father Denzel is a tough act to follow

    A man in denim shirt and jeans sits on a white stool
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Review
    Paddington in Peru — Ben Whishaw’s ursine hero gets another star turn

    The marmalade-sweet decency of the first two films endures but we have now reached cinematic childcare

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Review
    Bird — modern fable of a tough 12-year-old and a cryptic stranger

    Andrea Arnold directs Nykiya Adams and Franz Rogowski in a social-realist drama with an avian twist

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Review
    No Other Land — stark account of destruction in the West Bank

    Documentary made by Palestinians and Israelis shows rural homes razed and fragile cross-border kinship imperilled

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Review
    Piece By Piece — Pharrell Williams’ life and musical legacy made in Lego

    The hitmaker is profiled in a documentary that is as polished and smoothed as its chosen medium

  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    The Monday Interview with Matthew Garrahan
    Mattel CEO: Barbie film was about breaking convention, not ‘selling more toys’

    After the success of ‘Barbie’, Ynon Kreiz plans to turn the company’s toy brands into a ‘playground’ for filmmakers

    A middle-aged man in a suit poses for a photograph
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Interview
    Steve McQueen on his second world war epic ‘Blitz’: ‘I just wanted to tell the truth’

    His blockbuster shows wartime London in a new light — and might be his most personal film yet

    A Black man sits on a sofa with his arms in his lap. There is a tapestry on the wall behind him
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Elaine Moore
    Man vs machinima: can video games ever be art?

    The uncanny semi-reality of computer-generated worlds is producing a new form of filmmaking

    A still from Grand Theft Hamlet
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    How Hollywood ran shy of geopolitics

    Film distributors are increasingly wary of anything that might prove controversial

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Donald Trump struggling to keep open a movie clacket so it won’t crush him
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI meets the arts stars of the AW24 season
    Franz Rogowski is ready to soar

    With his latest film, Bird, the German actor is in full flight

    Franz Rogowski wears Emporio Armani wool-mix jacket, £970, cotton poplin shirt, £270, wool-mix wide-leg trousers, £650, and leather derby shoes, £390. Cartier gold and sapphire-crystal Tank Américaine watch, £16,100
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    The Day of the Jackal — Eddie Redmayne is a steely hitman in gripping cat-and-mouse yarn

    New 10-part Sky series is a slick contemporary take on the assassination-plot premise

    Eddie Redmayne in a dark polo neck peers through a sniper scope with a steely, dispassionate expression
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Review
    Anora — energy fizzes through Sean Baker’s anti-Cinderella film

    Mikey Madison is an Oscar shoo-in with her bristlingly real performance as a strip-club dancer

    A young woman dances and smiles amid other dancers in a nightclub
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Review
    Blitz — a bravura wartime epic from Steve McQueen

    The director tells the story of bomb-struck London through the eyes of a family — and a child in particular

    A blonde young woman in 1940-style clothes sits watching her son, who stands back to the camera, mostly out of shot
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