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Film

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Review
    Six films to watch this week

    Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ revisits classic vampire horror; Alice Lowe’s ‘Timestalker’ goes in search of her dream man through the centuries; ‘In Restless Dreams’ reappraises the music of Paul Simon; ‘A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things’ depicts the artistic vision of painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga star in ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’; ‘A Different Man’ tells a story of facial disfigurement — reviews by Jonathan Romney and Danny Leigh

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon — an appraisal of a songwriting titan

    From Garfunkel to ‘Graceland’, Alex Gibney’s sprawling documentary makes you want to revisit the star’s best work

    A black-and-white photo of Paul Simon seated in a bath playing guitar
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things — mesmeric portrait of a singular painter

    Mark Cousins depicts the artistic vision of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, with her words read by Tilda Swinton

    In a sun-baked rocky landscape, a woman sits drawing or painting on a board resting on her lap and held upright with one hand
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Salem’s Lot — Stephen King chiller is as creaky as a coffin lid but oddly gratifying

    Postmodernism is vanquished in this wholehearted vampire story

    A boy and a bearded man stare with wide eyes into a space containing bottles and shiny objects
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Timestalker — oddball comedy of reincarnation from Alice Lowe

    The actor-writer-director plays a woman who encounters her dream man in the 17th century — and the 18th, 19th, 20th . . .

    A woman wearing an enormous 17th-century wig sits looking glum; next to her a man attired in 17th-century clothing looks anxious
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Interview
    The wild inside story of Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice

    Screenwriter Gabriel Sherman’s film was bankrolled by a billionaire Trump donor, hit with legal threats — and had Hollywood running scared

    A blond man in suit and tie sits at a desk, a phone to his ear. There are papers and a small Stars and Stripes flag on his desk
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    How anime took over the world

    The global footprint of the animated sub-genre is growing inexorably

    María Hergueta illustration of a Japanese anime character standing on top of the world
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    Cate Blanchett enlivens Alfonso Cuarón’s self-indulgent TV psychodrama Disclaimer

    The aftermath of a fleeting affair is traced in an Apple TV+ show also starring Sacha Baron-Cohen and Kevin Kline

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    ReviewArts
    Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o tells wild and moving stories in podcast Mind your Own

    The series is tightly edited and has a clear objective: to be a repository of tales by and for the African diaspora

    A portrait of a woman dressed in an orange top and blazer, her hair styled in braids, and illuminated by soft lighting that casts colorful shadows in red and teal on the wall behind her
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast20 min listen
    In the age of AI, what counts as art?

    Our innovation editor John Thornhill on seeing the new film ‘Eno’, which presents the musician’s life in a new sequence each time the movie is shown

  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    InterviewTelevision
    Actor Adeel Akhtar on following his instincts and ‘not being a minority in a room’

    The Bafta-winner and star of ‘Sherwood’ and ‘Showtrial’ discusses the twists and turns of his acting career

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Meta Platforms
    Meta debuts AI filmmaker in challenge to OpenAI’s Sora

    Instagram and Facebook owner says new tools trump rivals’ but will not be widely available until next year at the earliest

    Still from a Meta AI Audio Generation video
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    HTSI
    John and Bob Crowley, brothers in arts

    The theatre designer and the film director have become two of the most established voices in the worlds of stage and screen. What’s the secret to their creative DNA?

    The brothers sit either side of a painting by Howard Hodgkin
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    A Different Man — a bravura tale of boy meets girl meets doppelgänger

    This jagged, grimly funny psychodrama examines questions of identity

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    My Old Ass — Aubrey Plaza meets her younger self in slyly charming comedy

    Maisy Stella stars as a teenager spending her last summer at home

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    The Battle for Laikipia — when Kenyan herders and white landowners clash

    Sober documentary chronicles the blocking of age-old migration routes of semi-nomadic tribes

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Is Joker: Folie à Deux creatively audacious — or trolling us?

    Lady Gaga lends her star power to this curious musical follow-up to ‘Joker’

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    FT Series
    HTSI special: the art of intimacy

    Our autumn arts special features Rebecca Hall, Andrew O’Hagan, the Rohrwacher sisters and many more

    Midnight swim (all the blue in the world), 2023, by Christopher Hartmann
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Residential
    Fantasy Home: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a magical portal into my childhood

    Though in my youth I never found any doors into other worlds, as an adult my dreams are providing more than I can possibly open

    A young girl in a dimly lit room pulling a large, flowing curtain away to reveal a tall, ornate wooden wardrobe
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    ObituaryArts
    Maggie Smith, actor, 1934-2024

    Versatile star whose work across eight decades spanned crowd-pleasing comedy, Shakespearean tragedy and wizardry

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI special: the art of intimacy
    HTSI editor’s letter: the art of intimacy

    Rebecca Hall, Arooj Aftab, Louis Fratino, and Alba and Alice Rohrwacher lead a meditative autumn arts special

    Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Hotel Locarno, Rome
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Maggie Smith, star of Downton Abbey and Harry Potter, dies at 89

    Oscar-winning actor was renowned for her acerbic wit and ‘formidable talent’

    Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    FT SeriesDon’t miss – HTSI’s most popular stories
    Rebecca Hall is ready to show us her secret project

    The actress and filmmaker has conquered Shakespeare, Hollywood, motherhood and mourning. Now she’s flexing a new artistic muscle

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Review
    Will & Harper film review — Will Ferrell and Harper Steele are two old friends on a road trip

    Gentle documentary addresses questions around Steele’s decision to come out as a trans woman

    A man and a trans woman sit in the front of a car, laughing
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Review
    Wolfs — George Clooney and Brad Pitt are rival crime cleaners in blackly comic soufflé

    High-concept movie is a star vehicle for two slick personas

    Two men stand in an apartment aggressively, holding one holding a chair with menace, looking down at a person cowering on a bed
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