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Features

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Festivals

Claire Denis and David Cronenberg headline the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

by David Jenkins

This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.
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Incoming

Kristen Stewart may or may not get swole for Rose Glass’ bodybuilding movie

by Charles Bramesco

She’s only been cast as the lover of Love Lies Bleeding’s musclebound protagonist… but still.
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Sponsored

How Paul Verhoeven defies genre trappings with Benedetta

by Charles Bramesco

‘Nunspoiltation’ doesn’t quite cut it when it comes to the work of this fiendishly talented auteur.
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Incoming

The Assistant director Kitty Green will take to the Outback for her next film

by Charles Bramesco

The Royal Hotel reunites Green with star Julia Garner, who finds herself on the receiving end of toxic masculinity once again.
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Interviews

Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I’ve always nurtured this dream of looking at a great epic Viking movie’

by Hannah Strong

As he prepares to unleash hell in The Northman, we profile the Swedish actor who realises his lifelong dream with this Scandanavian epic.
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Interviews

Robert Eggers: ‘This is me trying to do Conan the Barbarian by way of Andrei Rublev’

by Charles Bramesco

The visionary director of The Northman talks scaling up production, his love of Viking culture, and the perils of working with a flock of birds.
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In Praise Of

Why I love Robert Mitchum’s performance in Cape Fear

by Adam Scovell

Sixty years after its release, the acting great’s unnerving performance as vengeful convict Max Cady still packs a punch.
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Interviews

Paul Verhoeven: ‘I identify far more with the “female” part of my brain’

by Justine Smith

The Dutch provocateur chats lesbian nuns, alternate realities and his undying love for Quentin Tarantino.
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In Praise Of

In praise of Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

by Nick Joyner

Over 30 years later, Todd Haynes’ experimental documentary remains a visionary look at female celebrity.
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Not Movies

Severance and the myth of work-life balance

by Emily Maskell

Apple TV+’s intriguing workplace drama sets a new, sinister precedent for office culture.