John Schlesinger
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5 out of 5 stars.Fifty years on, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman’s squabbling amid the squalor of low-rent New York remains a heartbreaking triumph
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The unlikely buddy drama, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, remains a compelling study of poverty and loneliness
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Simon Booker recalls his unconventional upbringing with his mother who was a glamorous film publicist in the Mad Men era
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In the year the actor’s celebrity went stratospheric, Julie Christie could be found looking bored at the checkout
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He completely recut Midnight Cowboy, won an Oscar for The Killing Fields and worked on James Bond. William Boyd remembers the film editor they called Dr Clark, because he could make sick movies well again
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Black, who won the best original screenplay prize in 2009 for Milk, has berated Smith for claiming to be the first opening gay Oscar winner – and told him to stop contacting his fiance
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As the capital’s busiest railway station struggles to cope with soaring passenger demands, a classic 1961 documentary transports us to a very different city
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Actor and screenwriter who took Hollywood by storm with the 1981 film Chariots of Fire
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Socialist, royalist, show-off, shy ... in life and in his fiction, Alan Bennett is a bundle of contradictions. He talks about the ‘totalitarian’ Tories, why he doesn’t go to the theatre, and a lifetime of being contrary
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The four Beatles were among the starry signatories of a plea to screenwriter Terry Southern
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As ex-Labour MP returns to acting, she expresses her dismay as to why women still can’t get the best roles
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4 out of 5 stars.Thomas Vinterburg’s adaptation of the Hardy classic is handsome and well played but could do with a little less polish
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3 out of 5 stars.This good-looking version of Thomas Hardy’s romance had a hard act to follow after John Schlesinger’s 1967 film classic, and is heartfelt but flawed
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Far from the Madding Crowd might be Hardy’s sunniest novel, but it is also subversive and unsettling. Thomas Vinterberg’s new film adaptation creates a Bathsheba for the modern audience, but does it capture the book’s strangeness and erotic energy?
Notebook Fifty years on, this film is still the Sunday Bloody Sunday best