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Bros to Casablanca: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Why not try a delicious and hilarious queer rom-com, or let Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman sweep you away in one of the greatest romances of all time

The Guardian - UK

Pssst! Wanna buy an Oscar? The mysterious case of the missing Academy Awards

An Oscar can only, officially, be sold for $1 – but that hasn’t stopped a small but lucrative black market. Where are all those that have disappeared?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: is this David Attenborough’s last ever nature series?

Wild Isles is a wonderful celebration of the natural riches of the British Isles. Plus: a cuttingly funny takes on Molière’s classic play, Tartuffe. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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To Leslie and Moneyshot: the Pornhub Story – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Andrea Riseborough will blow you away in the film she is Oscar-nominated for, and a fascinating documentary about whether the internet will ever be free of pornography

The Guardian - UK

Spies in the sky blowin' in the wind

The current "balloon" wars have been quite entertaining in a weird sort of way with a strange mix of espionage, propaganda and porky pies that are just enough to capture the public's imagination. Perhaps secretly we would like one of these unidentified flying objects (UFO) to be something a bit…

Bangkok Post

The Covert War on Christmas

Friday A/V Club: That time Orson Welles tried to assassinate St. Nick

Reason

‘There was an explosion, and I had to close my eyes’: how TV left 12,000 children needing a doctor

The Japanese government held an emergency meeting and share prices crashed after a Pokémon broadcast. For years, its effects went unexplained – until researchers started digging …

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TV tonight: Cormoran Strike is back – and he’s cracking his first cold case

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger reunite for a fifth series of the hit detective series. Plus: Tom Hardy narrates a nature documentary. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

What sort of country are we? That’s the question implicit in Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey

For Australian media, this case is important – it asks whether anyone is free to publish in the public interest a hyperbolic remark about a wealthy media baron

The Guardian - AU

Emancipation to The Amazing Maurice: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Will Smith is impressively fierce in a thriller based on the true life of a Louisiana slave, while Terry Pratchett’s retelling of the Pied Piper story is a quick-witted delight

The Guardian - UK

The 'greatest film of all time': Chantal Akerman's win shows a generational shift is taking place among critics and filmmakers

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman’s 1975 hypnotic study of a mother performing domestic chores in microscopic detail – has just been crowned the “greatest film of all time” in Sight and Sound’s prestigious poll.

The Conversation

British Film Institute releases latest top 100 film list of all time, but why should you care?

The British Film Institute's once-a-decade Sight & Sound poll has named the greatest movie of all time, but with so many other top 100 film lists kicking about, ABC Radio film critic Matt Neal conducts a data crunch to determine which, if any, is the definitive list, and why they…

ABC News

Chantal Akerman first woman to top Sight and Sound’s greatest all-time films poll

Film-maker’s 1976 feature Jeanne Dielman pushes Vertigo into second place and Citizen Kane into third

The Guardian - UK

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time poll: The 2022 results are in – and there’s a new winner

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ was pushed into second place

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Creepy and morbid, ‘The Malignant Ampersands’ is ultimately just too confusing

“The Malignant Ampersands,” is a new play by Brett Neveu that A Red Orchid Theatre describes as a “very unofficial sequel” to Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons.” But is it really?

The Guardian - UK

‘High octane visions’: the blurred, distorted genius of photographer William Klein

He captured the energy of New York’s streets, revolutionised fashion photography, then made savage, censored films about the west. His scope, imagination and influence were simply immense

The Guardian - UK

The most memorable moments in film, as picked by readers in 2000

The shower scene in Psycho featured on the Observer readers’ list, but only in second place. By Chris Hall

The Guardian - UK

Leslie Megahey obituary

Director of arts documentaries whose subjects ranged from Orson Welles to 17th-century painters

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The Guardian - UK

‘The real life of Athens is here’ – hidden gems beyond and beneath the Acropolis

The Acropolis Museum’s underground lab, the ancient Hadrian aqueduct and an arts festival in an old factory offer a more personal view of the Greek capital

The Guardian - UK

What links The Lord of the Rings to Lenny Henry and the Beatles?

As Middle-earth buffs get ready for the new Rings of Power extravaganza, we follow Tolkien down the rabbit hole and find Orson Welles, Michael Gambon and the Fab Four

The Guardian - US

The Magnificent Ambersons at 80: Orson Welles’ powerful but cursed drama

The multi-hyphenate’s follow-up to Citizen Kane was a nightmare production and a box office disappointment but remains a fascinating film about America

Sports Illustrated

The Rise and Rebirth of the Most Notorious Fake News Outlet in Sports

Ballsack Sports never pretended to be real. (Look at the name!) That hasn’t stopped fans—and media outlets—from treating its posts as gospel.

Salon

11 "History Of The World, Part I" facts

According to Mel Brooks, the Moses scene was a last-minute addition

The Independent UK

20 best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

France 24

Cannes 2022: Festival hosts gala ceremony to mark its 75th anniversary

At the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, prizewinners, jury presidents and the great and the good of world cinema gathered on the red carpet to celebrate the 75th edition of the event. Olivia Salazar-Winspear tells us more about that gala ceremony and we take a look back at the history…

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