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See Christopher Nolan’s IMAX-shot, much anticipated new film about the father of the atomic bomb in IMAX 70mm film, as it’s meant to be seen.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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Michael Parkinson obituary: era-defining broadcaster and talkshow host
With his laidback style and down-to-earth humour, Parkinson was an amiable but penetrating interviewer, becoming the British chatshow host against whom all others have been measured.
By Dick Fiddy, Marcus Prince and others
World premiere of Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen to close the 67th BFI London Film Festival
World premiere of Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen to close the 67th BFI London Film Festival10 great films set in the French countryside
By Steph Green
Support your local police movie
By Philip French
Dil Se.. at 25: how a daring political romance became a Bollywood classic
By Soham Gadre
Watchlist: 13 overlooked British films of the 1970s
Watchlist: 13 overlooked British films of the 1970sFalling Stars: creepy, low-budget horror conjures the season of the witch
By John Bleasdale
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The director of Name Me Lawand, a compelling story on the power of language, is joined by the founder and chair of Deaf Kidz International and a deaf artist and activist to talk about the documentary.
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