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Bad Apples: Saoirse Ronan is this black comedy’s secret weapon
Ronan stars as a teacher who kidnaps a troublesome pupil to save her school’s Ofsted inspection and her job in this wicked little drama from Jonatan Etzler.
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The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol
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Bucking Fastard: Herzog’s tale of two sisters who speak in unison is his best fiction feature in years
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Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger: Fan-service rockumentary is very much the Gallagher brothers’ show
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My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile: documentary sequel exposing Russian media censorship is every bit as gripping as its first instalment
By Carmen Gray
Possible Love: Lee Chang-Dong’s sober exploration of economic disparity is filled with quiet revelations
By Jonathan Romney
Everybody Digs Bill Evans: a gentle sonata of loss
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The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol
With BFI Southbank’s Claude Chabrol retrospective Elements of Crime in full swing and La Femme infidèle (1970) re-released in cinemas this week, we revisit an interview with the prolific French filmmaker from our Winter 1970/71 issue.
By Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi
“He is the blockbuster given human form”: J. Hoberman on Arnold Schwarzenegger
By J. Hoberman
“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting
By Geoffrey Macnab
Of monsters and men: Peter Wollen on Jurassic Park
By Peter Wollen
Darkest hour: the first ever film of a solar eclipse
By Bryony Dixon
“It earns every hair it stiffens”: Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others
By Nick James
“He was a giant for work”: Michal Leszczylowski, editor of The Sacrifice, on Andrei Tarkovsky
By Michal Leszczylowski
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