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  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

    If you are in the market for a custom-built five-necked guitar, a pair of personalised walkie-talkies, or a set of 10 (nine unopened) VHS tapes of Eraserhead, then now is your chance. More than 400 lots of personal effects from the collection of the late David Lynch, the idiosyncratic and hugely influential film-maker who died in January, are going up for auction.

  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

    Few actors make an instant impact on their first major film festival appearance, but Frank Dillane, star of fellow actor Harris Dickinson’s directing debut Urchin, is one of them. Critics are near-unanimous in their praise, with Variety calling his performance “revelatory”, and IndieWire describing it as “magnetic”. Influential film industry publication Deadline said that Dillane “arrived in Cannes a virtual unknown, but Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut has made him a star”.

  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

    Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, who has previously been arrested and jailed and whose films have been banned in Iran on multiple occasions, has said “even my closest friends had given up hope that I would ever make films again”. Panahi was speaking at a press conference before the premiere of his new film A Simple Accident at the Cannes film festival, his first visit in 22 years since bringing Crimson Gold to Cannes in 2003.

  • 2 weeks ago | airmail.news | Andrew Pulver

    “In spite of my democracy / I’ve married the aristocracy / Like a true American girl.” This isn’t a line trilled in the television show Downton Abbey, but it could have been. It’s from a song by George Grossmith, the comedian, composer, and writer (The Diary of a Nobody), whose sketch shows toured England and the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, skewering the antics of the transatlantic upper classes.

  • 3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

    Kristen Stewart has described President Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry as “terrifying” and said that “we should expect the worst”.

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