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<p>Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in ‘A Room With A View’ </p>

We all experienced the triumph and loss of the Merchant Ivory years

It is 40 years since ‘A Room with a View’ made James Ivory and Ismail Merchant into household names and their work a byword for cinematic elegance. Here, Sarah Sands reflects on the halcyon years when her then husband Julian Sands and her brother were both at the centre of a world of luscious longing and tenderness

<p>Denzel Washington plays Macrinus in 'Gladiator II’</p>

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Gladiator II’s queer villains are a trope that we need to move past

<p>Rotten Roman: Paul Mescal in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II’ </p>

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Gladiator 2 is awful – no wonder it made Russell Crowe uncomfortable

<p>A pop-culture-infused catechism: Linda Fiorentino, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Rock on the poster art for ‘Dogma’ </p>

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How the outrageous comedy Dogma became practically impossible to see

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<p>Desperate measures: Frances McDormand in ‘Blood Simple’</p>

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Blood Simple was ‘too sleazy’ for Hollywood – but it changed cinema

As Joel and Ethan Coen’s grisly noir debut turns 40, Geoffrey Macnab looks at the making of a film that influenced everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Danny Boyle

<p>Edward Fox in ‘The Day of the Jackal’ </p>

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Why remake it? Day of the Jackal’s 1973 movie is a perfect adaptation

With Frederick Forsyth’s cat-and-mouse assassin novel now being adapted into a new series starring Eddie Redmayne, Geoffrey Macnab looks at the making of the 1973 classic that first brought the story to life

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<p>TV advert lighting: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in ‘Wicked’</p>

Wicked is fun and well-acted – but why does it look so terrible?

Miscast: Selena Gomez in ‘Emilia Pérez'

Selena Gomez is miscast in the vapid Oscar frontrunner Emilia Pérez

Interviews

<p>‘You go from being a guy writing jokes in your apartment to being in 10 or 15 million homes every week’ </p>

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Paul Reiser: ‘Thanks to Stranger Things, kids don’t know I’m funny’

<p>Andrea Arnold: ‘American TV is almost like a holiday from the struggles of my own films’ </p>

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Andrea Arnold on her new drama Bird: ‘The film is its own explanation’

<p>‘My job as director is to be a captain of a boat and the boat needs to not be hitting an iceberg!’ </p>

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Mélanie Laurent: ‘I’ve had bad experiences with actors, not actresses’

<p>Sophie Thatcher: ‘I’m sick of looking at myself on screen looking scared’ </p>

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Heretic’s Sophie Thatcher on Hugh Grant: ‘There is no sugar-coating with him’

<p>‘I was very young, and I had thought that it was two of us, me and Cillian, do or die. And that we would, of course, play it. I didn’t really know the business’</p>

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Eileen Walsh on Small Things Like These: ‘In any religion, it’s the women who’ll be controlled’

<p>‘Sometimes the most torturous thing isn’t just the disrespect or mistreatment, but the fact that everyone’s acting like it’s not happening’ </p>

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Anna Kendrick: ‘I was being forced into dishonesty in my private life’

<p>‘Risky Business wasn’t about lusty teen boys. It was elegant’ </p>

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Risky Business star Rebecca De Mornay: ‘There are violent predators I wouldn’t work with’

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My Old Ass star Maisy Stella: ‘Justin Bieber had to approve my scene’

Features

<p>A Bond from the blue: Daniel Craig as 007 in ‘No Time to Die’</p>

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Daniel Craig doesn’t care about the next Bond – by now, who does?

<p>Terrible two: Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans in ‘Red One’ </p>

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Chris Evans is squandering his movie stardom with films like Red One

<p>Clockwise from centre: ‘Legend’, ‘Showgirls’, ‘A Sound of Thunder’, ‘Hudson Hawk’, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ and ‘Waterworld’ are among Hollywood’s biggest flops</p>

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How I learnt to love the box-office flop

<p>The man with no name: Clint Eastwood pictured in 2015</p>

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Clint Eastwood is ‘overrated’? That couldn’t be further from the truth

Flashbacks

<p>Best offence: The tiny stars of the ribald 2004 comedy ‘Team America: World Police’ </p>

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How Team America shocked the world (and outraged Sean Penn)

<p>Happy anniversary: Rachel Griffiths (left) and Toni Collette in ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ </p>

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Muriel’s Wedding and its flawed, brilliant heroine at 30

<p>Doing hard time: Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in the celebrated ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ </p>

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Shawshank at 30: How a box office flop became a cinematic classic

<p>‘Get away from her you b****!’: Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in ‘Aliens’ </p>

Aliens: How James Cameron made the greatest sequel in sci-fi history

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