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...Here, while Robbie was in contention for best actress, that prize was instead won by Emma Stone for her turn in the Promethean fantasy Poor Things....
...As Stone and Ruffalo perform a mad, broken-doll jig on a lavish cruise ship, you may find yourself clapping along like an excited toddler....
...Offbeat period comedy Poor Things received 11, including Best Picture, Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos and Best Actress for Emma Stone....
...In movies such as Drifting Clouds or The Man Without a Past, the Finnish auteur has spent 40 years as a byword for stone-faced deadpan....
...“I always want to know what’s in the stones of a city.” (Since making Occupied City, McQueen has returned to London, though remaining with the second world war, for the forthcoming epic Blitz.)...
...Links (all FT links get you past the paywall): – Poor Things is in theatres now – You can read the FT’s three-star review of Poor Things, by film critic Danny Leigh here: https://on.ft.com/480VjMg –...
...The star of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, here he more clearly channels Clint Eastwood, stone face marked by a single tear. His charisma keeps the movie ticking....
...Instead, the film sets out to translate in cinematic form what it presents as stoicism of the hardest core: implacable will extended into stone-faced comedy....
...In Santiago, the police fire rubber bullets; paving stones are broken up and hurled back. But if Guzmán admires the young protesters, he never revels in the violence....
...And Bob Dylan, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and, once you factor in who they inspired in turn, well, yes, “everything” is pretty much the size of it....
...He decided on an electric oven, with a rotating stone inside to cook the pizza evenly....
...Having just about persuaded consumers to forget its grisly history in African war zones, the existential threat to the trade these days is “synthetics”: lab-grown stones impossible to tell from the real...
...Buildings stand on the mushroom-shaped stone stilts that defended stores against rodents....
...But the BoardEx data suggests these functions have not historically been a stepping stone to the top job....
...Small stones, which he suspects were rust fragments from the cooking pots, were obscured in the rice and broke his teeth, which haven’t yet been properly fixed....
...Danny Leigh had a rather better impression of it, though: read his review here, and his selection of the six best films of the year so far here....
...therefore lies in the sheer carefree air of stars Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, two highly skilled professionals clearly having a blast channelling — of all things — the 1984 adventure Romancing the Stone...
...One of the most dubious moments in the career of any major living director came in 2017, with Oliver Stone’s jarringly polite The Putin Interviews....
...Stone being Stone, all is instantly conclusive. As usual too, the distinction is not always clear between declassified papers and assorted, malevolent stuff....
...“I’m nearly two stone heavier than I was when I was doing 2:22. I think I did have an unhealthy relationship with food then....
...that followed are celebrated, including but not limited to Henson (arriving as a business-savvy hipster), producer Joan Ganz Cooney, larger-than-life composer Joe Raposo and ursine writer-director Jon Stone...
...But the film shot back then of a firmament of black music stars on goosebump-inducing form — Sly Stone, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, more — only fully surfaced this year....
...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....
...— that might kill the whole shebang stone dead. And this, a caption points out, is only Monday. Nicole Kidman is Ball; Javier Bardem plays Desi Arnaz, her husband on air and in real life....
...critic part-based on polymath James Baldwin, plunged into a gastronomic crime caper.Among the stampede of actors are flashbulb moments of visual wit: del Toro’s fellow prisoners burst en masse through a stone...
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