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...Life was easier in Notting Hill. Here, star Jessie Buckley has a tougher route to happiness....
...Unfolding in the hills of rural Galicia, the story concerns an escalating feud between a local family and a French couple arrived to become organic farmers....
...A vast spherical bomb rolls down a Roman hill, like a scene from a lost silent classic....
...From there, the company just kept making hits: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Billy Elliot, Fargo, Notting Hill, Senna, Shaun of the Dead. The list goes on, but we all have busy lives....
...You would guess that was how Antoine (Denis Ménochet) felt on arriving in this dusting of smallholdings in the rich Galician hills....
..., the sugared comedy of heartache from Notting Hill’s fabled producers Working Title. That this is a romcom for a different age is never clearer than where it unfolds....
...The Warners of the 1930s and ’40s was talked of as a kingdom, and Jack the autocratic king; his palace a neo-Georgian Beverly Hills mansion larger than that of any other mogul....
...In the opening scene of the callow, glittery Babylon, a large pachyderm is conveyed on a small truck up a Hollywood hill. It is 1926....
...Gladney’s “College-on-the-Hill” still feels like the academic hub of Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on a hill”....
...The most popular patch of Jurassic Coast for second-home owners is the Isle of Purbeck, according to Danny Rowland....
...Early on, the child that was Norma Jeane (Lily Fisher) is driven by her schizophrenic mother into a wildfire in the Los Angeles hills. Flames lick the H of the Hollywood sign....
...The director is Ol Parker, but more relevant still is producer Working Title, the veteran British romcom makers who once defined the genre — not least via the much-loved Notting Hill....
...August 24 to 26; further information and tickets here Notting Hill Carnival Each year over the August bank holiday, revellers descend on Notting Hill for the much-loved Caribbean carnival dating back to...
...Director Olivia Newman doesn’t hurry or over-compress — she just spends two hours prettily framing Edgar-Jones (charismatic, if never quite shaking off Muswell Hill) while writer Lucy Alibar wheels paper-thin...
...One meticulously scales a large fish head; another slices a small hill of spring onions into tiny rounds....
...In efforts to divert rain from the hills above the cave, farmers are told those paddies must be flooded, their crops sacrificed to spare the children. But Howard needs to keep things moving....
...Then the young woman hiking in the Los Angeles hills decides she simply has better things to do....
...But the novel is also bound up with a clash of cultures: the gulfs large and small between New York and Notting Hill, American Judaism and an English whiff of anti-Semitism....
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...(Website; Directions) Danny Leigh is the FT’s film critic Do you have a favourite London cinema? Tell us in the comments Follow FT Globetrotter on Instagram at @FTGlobetrotter...
...In precis, the son of Windrush-era Jamaican parents grows up a bright but disengaged Brixton schoolboy; later comes a westward drift to Notting Hill, constant harassment from the police offset by the power...
...Take Buddy (Jude Hill), the boy hero who acts as proxy for the young Branagh — his chipper air might have come from a cereal ad. Buddy is the darling of his unnamed family....
...This unfolds in a scene of rural isolation, a spartan doll’s house of a sheep farm set among mist-cloaked hills, worked by a married couple. (They are played by Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason.)...
...“When we were doing Rage, a guy that Groove grew up with called Danny was on the dance floor . . . ” “He used to have a bag of weed,” cuts in Grooverider, born Raymond Bingham....
...Witness Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, the city introduced in sly comic style with a gonzo montage of a Pearly King and Queen frolicking through Trafalgar Square....
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