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Ben Whishaw: the 21st century Tom Courtenay?

You might want to get your tickets now for the MCC Theater production of “The Pride” that starts performances off-Broadway next Wednesday. The show will mark the U.S. stage debut of 29-year-old English...

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The angry, sexy books that inspired two landmark films

The paperback publisher Vintage has reissued two volumes by Alan Sillitoe — “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” and “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” — that have strong connections to movie...

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‘Long Distance Runner’ returns via Warner Archive

The French New Wave of the early 1960s is still written about endlessly because the key directors of that movement, Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, had such a major influence on Hollywood and...

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‘Our Mother’s House’: the return of a gothic gem

British director Jack Clayton was a major force in changing the direction of British filmmaking with his 1959 hit “Room at the Top.” The movie starring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret was blunter...

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When British movies changed everything

Manhattan’s indispensable Film Forum is launching another of its terrific special events on March 22, a two-week festival of 1960s era films from England that had a tremendous impact on Hollywood. “The...

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