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...Damon Albarn rates The Ballad of Darren as the first “legit” Blur album since 13 came out in 1999....
...There was prolonged cheering as Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree took to the stage....
...To see Damon, Alex, Graham and Dave on a stage again? That really would be a miracle. jo.ellison@ft.com...
...But one of the best films of the festival was the gentlest, a wonderful low-fi British comedy called Brian and Charles....
...Demon Copperhead is a retelling of David Copperfield, Charles Dickens’ epic on childhood poverty, but staged in Appalachia at the start of the opioid crisis....
...These things are brand new,” said Charles Whitehead, professor at Cornell Law School....
...Perpetrators include “Chinese government attackers”, according to Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer of cyber company Mandiant....
...I’m often compared to Charles Dickens. I’ve never even read Dickens.”...
...This year’s curtainraiser was a bold one, and, though it proved divisive, Leos Carax’s Annette was a very good choice, writes critic Damon Wise....
...In the real world, Tate has come to embody the end of the flower-power era, having met a violent death at the hands of Charles Manson’s followers in 1969....
...The likeness is heightened by the dual presence of Damon Herriman, the fine-tuned actor who, having twice played Charles Manson this year in Netflix series Mindhunter and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A...
...“The Great Wall tried to fit Matt Damon’s character into a Chinese film and that created a backlash in the US,” says Prof Kokas....
...In 2012, the company replaced Mr Waterston with Matt Damon, star of the Bourne movie franchise....
...In the 2015 film The Martian, China’s space programme saves Matt Damon; in Transformers 4 China’s Communist party is portrayed as a smoothly working, decisive organisation compared with the bumbling US government...
...Mr Damon responded that he did not take the role away from a Chinese actor....
...The movie stars Matt Damon as an English mercenary in medieval China and was panned by critics, but it has nonetheless turned a modest profit....
...The film has also been criticised for, among other things, casting a white actor (Damon) as the lead in a Chinese film....
...Meanwhile, the Chinese film with the biggest-ever budget, The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon, made its $150m production cost back but was panned by critics and failed to generate much interest abroad....
...The film, starring big-name stars like Matt Damon, was released in China as a flagship production for the new Chinese orientation of Legendary....
...“Reasons to be cheerful,” Blur’s singer Damon Albarn announced from the main Pyramid Stage, wearing a mourning black armband around his bomber jacket. “It’s not raining.”...
...Legendary has been working with state-owned China Film Company on a fantasy epic Great Wall, starring Matt Damon and the largest film yet to be shot in China for global distribution....
...Sports stars Joey Barton and Damon Hill have sweated over their laptops. Ed Balls and Nick Clegg have had the chance to settle political scores with tales of life not quite at the top....
...She evokes gardens that urbanites such as Charles Dickens or Henry James once loved....
...Secret Passions is the latest in a series focusing on collectors held in the Tripostal: previous shows featured Charles Saatchi, François Pinault and the dealer Emmanuel Perrotin....
...Matt Damon narrates, an excellent music score but a slightly weak ending. ● Citizen Kane (1941): for many fans the best film ever. Orson Welles directed, co-wrote and starred as Kane....
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