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A Bond a day: Number 6 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

A Bond a day: Number 6 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

Time Out revisits the Bond movies day-by-day

 

Import Export
Rated 4 star(s)

Ugly/beautiful Euro nightmare from Ulrich Seidl

Import Export

How To Lose Friends And...
Rated 2 star(s)

Tame journo Britcom with a plucky Simon Pegg

How To Lose Friends And...

Brideshead Revisited
Rated 3 star(s)

Admirable but flawed Waugh adaptation

Brideshead Revisited

The Fall
Rated 3 star(s)

Striking, country-hopping fantasia from Tarsem

The Fall

Heavy Load
Rated 3 star(s)

Learning disabilities and punk-covers colide

Heavy Load

Fear(s) of the Dark
Rated 3 star(s)

Chilling black-and-white portmanteau of animation

Fear(s) of the Dark
 

Still running

Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill

De Niro. Pacino. Together again at last. Well, you can stop salivating right this minute.

Death Race

Paul WS Anderson’s remake of the classic ’70s exploitationer, with Jason Statham

Appaloosa

Another addition to the nu-Western canon with Viggo Mortensen. Ed Harrs and Renée Zellweger

Tropic Thunder

Cover-all war movie satire with Robert Downey Jr stealing the show as a blacked-up method actor

Pineapple Express

David Gordon Green takes leave from the the American indie drama to make a seventies-style caper comedy

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

A hard-hitting and emotive kids’ movie set during the holocaust

The Women

Yet another movie politely explaining to modern women the benefits of shameless consumerism


Critics' choice

Alexandra

Alexandra

Sukorov's tender, ghostly portrait of an elderly woman casting a distanced eye over the idiosyncrasies of war

I've Loved You So Long

Kristin Scott Thomas delivers a ripping performance in this cerebral jailbreak movie

Unrelated

Highly polished debut from promising Brit director Joanna Hogg

Linha de Passe

Melancholy investigation into teenage ennui from Walter Salles

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

This fine bucolic romance from 88-year-old French director Eric Rohmer may be his swansong

Jar City

Icelandic mystery thriller with some genetics thrown in for good measure

The Duchess

It's back to the 18th Century for Keira Knightley in this quietly subversive period drama


Features

Steve McQueen on 'Hunger'

Steve McQueen on 'Hunger'

Dave Calhoun meets artist Steve McQueen’s whose debut feature film, ‘Hunger’, is the story of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands

Producer Stephen Woolley on ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’

Stephen Woolley, recalls the near catastrophes he had to contend with in bringing Toby Young’s memoir to the screen

Paul Newman: 1925 – 2008

Paul Newman died at his Connecticut home this weekend, at the age of 83. We look back at one of the great movie careers

Forty years of Time Out Film interviews

Over the years Time Out has interviewed the cream of the movie world. Here are a selection of choice observations

Hard hacks to follow

To celebrate the release of 'How To Lose Friends and Alienate People', Time Out pick some of the toughest journalistic gigs in cinema

Time Out at the London Film Festival 2008

As usual, Time Out have got plenty of things going on at this year’s 52nd Times BFI London Film Festival



Feature

Classic Film Club: Pt. 4

Classic Film Club: Pt. 4

Tom Huddleston watches Jean Vigo’s lush dream romance ‘L’Atalante’


Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough: interview

Richard Attenborough: interview

‘Entirely Up to You, Darling’ is the long-awaited autobiography from Sir Richard Attenborough. David Jenkins meets him in his Richmond home


Festival

‘Father of Manga’ Osamu Tezuka at the Barbican

‘Father of Manga’ Osamu Tezuka at the Barbican

Adam Lee Davies assesses the influence of the ‘Father of Manga’, Osamu Tezuka preceding a season at London's Barbican






Features

Free screening: 'Burn After Reading'

Free screening: 'Burn After Reading'

Your chance to win tickets to the Time Out 'Opening Nights' screening of the Coen brother's kooky comedy, 'Burn After Reading'

Competition: 'Hunger'

Competition: 'Hunger'

Win tickets to the Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival gala screening of 'Hunger' and a stay at a top London hotel

Cinema takes on the US elections

Cinema takes on the US elections

Amid the mud-slinging of the ’08 race to the Oval Office, a high turnout of politically motivated movies are vying to make the most of election fever. Ben Walters casts his deciding vote




Features

Juliette Binoche: interview

Juliette Binoche: interview

The great French actress Juliette Binoche discusses film and painting with Dave Calhoun

British film highlights autumn 2008

British film highlights autumn 2008

We take a look forward to the top British movies of the autumn, including the new Bond film ‘Quantum of Solace’


Free screenings

Win a trip to Mongolia

Win a trip to Mongolia

To celebrate the DVD release of ‘Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan’ on September 29 2008, click here for your chance to win a trip to Mongolia