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Polaroids from Michael Powell’s unmade Kensington romance
The Loving Eye was to be a voyeuristic romance starring Paul Scofield and Moira Shearer. These bittersweet pre-production images ”make me laugh and weep at one and the same time,” wrote Powell.
By Sam Wigley
The Imaginary: a safe but enjoyable flight of fancy from Studio Ponoc
By Alex Dudok de Wit
A Quiet Place: Day One: gimmicky prequel has little to say
By Adam Nayman
The uncomfortable Cassavetes: 50 years of A Woman Under the Influence
By Chloe Walker
The Nature of Love: an overworked but thoughtful rumination on romance
By Kate Stables
World premiere of Apple Original Films’ Blitz to open the 68th BFI London Film Festival
World premiere of Apple Original Films’ Blitz to open the 68th BFI London Film Festival“VHS tapes from the 1990s opened the door to another world”: Lina Soualem on her Palestinian family memoir Bye Bye Tiberias
By Elhum Shakerifar
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The stars of a new ITV drama about cancel culture join writer Steven Moffat, director Ben Palmer and executive producer Sue Vertue to talk about their four-part series Douglas Is Cancelled.
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