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John Waters on restoring Hairspray and Desperate Living: “The mistakes are part of the charm”
His biggest popular success and one of his darkest comedies are arriving in the Criterion Collection at the same time. We spoke to Waters to hear why “The very fact that Desperate Living is in 4K is funny.”
By Blake Simons
Tony Rayns (1948 to 2026)
By Sam Wigley
Lonesome tonight: Tony Rayns and Edward Yang on A Brighter Summer Day
By Tony Rayns
How to train a kestrel: the original notes from the making of Kes
By Melanie Williams
Three weeks, two lovers, one shelved film: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s forgotten blackmail drama 21 Days
By Josephine Botting
Sumitra Peries’s The Girls: how a landmark Sri Lankan film captures the agony of girlhood
By Uditha Devapriya
The Last One for the Road: a leisurely Beckettian bender through northeastern Italy
By Philip Concannon
Events
The creators of Free Nelson Mandela bring the story of Mandela’s extraordinary release to BFI Southbank.
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