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...Selma, her 2014 portrait of Martin Luther King, was powerful; her 2018 fantasy A Wrinkle in Time a botch....
...Much of the intellectual heavy-lifting for Oppenheimer was done by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherman’s biography American Prometheus....
...Gerwig and Robbie aside, the closest thing to a snub this year might be the Academy’s response to another Best Picture nominee, Martin Scorsese’s historical crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon....
...And so we come to The Zone of Interest, the Oscar-nominated new film from British writer-director Jonathan Glazer, loosely adapting Martin Amis’s 2014 novel....
...“Martin has been banging the table on the M&A front again,” said one person close to Tencent, referring to the group’s president Martin Lau, who is in charge of its overseas expansion....
...Chief among the brand-name directors to release new work in 2023 was Martin Scorsese, now 81, with his historical true-crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon....
...A new project from Martin Scorsese too is a diary moment for film lovers, the director anointed as the last high priest of upper-case Cinema. The surrounding small print can be ironic....
...Kim Bodnia went on to play deadpan cop Martin Rohde in The Bridge; Sofie Gråbøl became the driven Sarah Lund in The Killing; and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau left Denmark to play the troubled Jaime Lannister in...
...“I had sex with a woman last night,” Tomas announces, while Martin tries to finish breakfast. “Can I tell you about it?” Ah, enlightenment. Again, not exactly....
...The hitmen of Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges spent their time in Belgium glumly sightseeing....
...The running time of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer sat at the shorter end of that spectrum; between them, the latest movies from Martin Scorsese and Steve McQueen will fill a working day....
...(Johansson played Psycho’s Janet Leigh in the broad-strokes 2012 biopic Hitchcock.) Women directors too are dealing with the knots of admiring Hitchcock now....
...But the source is a book: a credit given to Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin for their 2005 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer. All to the good....
...No scene in Martin’s Scorsese’s portrait of savage Bronx middleweight Jake LaMotta made clearer his loathing of boxing itself, a notable detail in what is technically a sports movie....
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...In Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese made him Tammany Hall scoundrel William “Boss” Tweed. For Luhrmann, he was svengali Harold Zidler, owner of the Moulin Rouge....
...In Ascension by Martin MacInnes, Atlantic Books £17.99, 512 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The “Tiffany brand” of American film, it has been called: home of Stanley Kubrick and Humphrey Bogart, the money behind Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, the Harry Potter films, The Matrix, Bonnie and Clyde,...
...Chief economics commentator Martin Wolf says the country needs a broader transformation. A case in point is the war on poverty....
...Here, the status quo is defended by cartoonish industry veteran Martin Rapaport....
...In recent years, the company has sought Oscar recognition with big-name directors such as Martin Scorsese and David Fincher....
...I think I enjoyed it even more than Danny Leigh, whose review you can read here....
...In tandem too is that film’s writer and director, Martin McDonagh, who in between made the much-admired Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. But the clock spins back far past 2008....
...“Probably not” was Martin Wolf’s verdict in his column earlier this week. Your verdict on Jeremy Hunt’s Mansion House speech and whether the proposals go far enough to deliver UK growth?...
...Martin De SaullesTunbridge Wells, Kent, UK...
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