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  Behind the scenes: Touch of Evil

  Rare images showing Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and her husband Tony Curtis relaxing between takes during the production of film noir classic Touch of Evil in Venice, California in 1957.

  Monday 20 July 2015

  Features

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  Adventures with UK audiences: taking two films by Josephine Decker on tour

  Described as ‘the unholy marriage of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch’, two films by New York indie director Josephine Decker are coming over for a tour of the UK. With Decker herself on stage at Q&As across the country, it’s an innovative release strategy tailor-made to get new audiences excited about a bold young filmmaker.

  Simran Hans
  Monday 20 July 2015

  Features

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  Film of the week: The Wonders

  Alice Rohwacher’s second feature conjures a teenager’s delights and desires against the waning of a less than Arcadian way of life, says Violet Lucca.

  Violet Lucca
  Saturday 18 July 2015

  Reviews and recommendations

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  Celluloid haven: Close Up Cinema

  In the second of our video reports about London’s 2015 batch of cinema initiatives, Edward Lawrenson sees and hears a valorous defence of celluloid film projection from Close Up Cinema’s Damien Sanville.

  Edward Lawrenson
  Friday 17 July 2015

  Video

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  Donald Sutherland: 10 essential films

  We look back at some of the crowning achievements of one of the most brilliant actors of his generation.

  Mike Sutton
  Friday 17 July 2015

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  A culture preserved in Amber

  Wearsider Neil Young hymns the work of Amber, North East England’s finest film collective.

  Neil Young
  Friday 17 July 2015

  Features

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  Gallery: five new London cinemas

  Photographs by Etienne Gilfillan of London ’s 2015 batch of new cinema initiatives, including the Picturehouse Central and Curzon Bloomsbury arthouse-circuit flagships, and the independent Regent Street, Deptford and Close Up cinemas.

  Etienne Gilfillan
  Friday 17 July 2015

  The pictures

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  Building a small cinema in Liverpool

  Anthony Killick embeds himself with a crack troupe of volunteer cinema refitters remaking a former Liverpool magistrates court as a cooperative picturehouse.

  Anthony Killick
  Friday 17 July 2015

  Video

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  Where to begin with Wong Kar-wai

  Your next obsession: the films of Wong Kar-wai.

  Ann Lee
  Friday 17 July 2015

  Features

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  Deptford Cinema: one for all!

  In the first of our video reports about new London cinemas, Edward Lawrenson speaks to Deptford Cinema’s Edwin Mingard about volunteer-run exhibition in the high-rent city, and the virtues of community-led programming.

  Edward Lawrenson
  Friday 17 July 2015

  Video

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