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Film-maker Marshall Curry pulls back the curtain on the beloved institution in a revealing and celebratory new film When young film-makers ask Marshall Curry what makes a documentary idea, he tells them: “There are some stories that make great New Yorker articles, but they’re not movies.” It was onl...
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New novels from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ian McEwan, plus the return of Slow Horses and Margaret Atwood looks back … Guardian critics pick the must-read titles of 2025The Guardian’s fiction editor picks the best of the year, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count to Thomas Pynchon’s return,...
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The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and eleganceBy the time I was cast in Rock’n’Roll in 2006 I had been following Tom for years. I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead when it came to London in 196...
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This documentary on the musician interviews everyone from Flea to … Rowan Williams. It’s a thoughtful take on his songs and ChristianityDevouring the new Nick Cave documentary on Sky, I am reminded how critics go wild for arty musicians who constantly change direction and dabble in everything. This...
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Irvine Welsh, Bella Freud and Florence Welsh explore Cave’s intoxicating work. Plus: a charming Aardman animation about a little bird. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky Arts Continue reading...
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Die Hard isn’t a Christmas film, claims the British public. But Pillion reminds us that the finest festive films reflect the complexities of the seasonCan Die Hard – the 1988 action movie starring Bruce Willis as an NYPD detective hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife on Christmas Eve – be cal...
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The diminutive Derry Girls star isn’t afraid to speak her mind, even if it costs her fans and followersBack in 2008, when Nicola Coughlan was at drama school, a guy in her class swaggered over and, with all the brimming confidence of young men in the noughties, asked her, “Do the Irish think the Eng...
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Residents across the city will be given new food waste containers in the coming months
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The Railway Inn in Hatton is one of just two pubs remaining in Hatton and is 160 years old
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Plans to regenerate the former Belper Mills complex in the heart of the World Heritage Site have been stalled for eight years
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Derbyshire Police says certain people will only be allowed in their homes briefly to recover items