Section: Film and TV
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Venice film festival: the movies that matter are those that refuse to look away
Our columnist picks the top films by Muslim directors at an event where cinema collides with politics
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Rahul Kohli knows exactly how to command a screen
Rahul Kohli teams up again with frequent collaborator Mike Flanagan in The Life of Chuck, as our columnist celebrates the actor’s career.
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Sholay at 50
Ramesh Sippy’s seminal masala western is one of the most popular films of all time. Here, its writer and some of the movie’s biggest fans discuss its appeal
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My Beautiful Laundrette: restoration returns with renewed immediacy
Forty years after it was first released, Hanif Kureishi’s screenplay remains a shining beacon of British cinema
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The summer blockbuster wants to appeal to everyone but needs to deliver on its promise of including them too
When movies get it right — such as Mahershala Ali in Jurassic World: Rebirth — they remind us just how joyous representation can be
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Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers — a reckoning with the narratives Britain chose not to hear
The Netflix documentary traces the social and political aftershocks of the violence that still ripple across society and reshaped the place of Muslims within it
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Hind Meddeb on her devastating documentary Sudan, Remember Us
The director’s new film is a powerful and urgent reminder of the Sudanese revolution now eclipsed by brutal conflict
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Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius — Muslim director from Bradford reclaims the regency rebel
Ali Naushahi’s direction of the BBC series shows how the writer’s legacy lives in the imaginations of all marginalised women
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Wes Anderson turns his talents to existential crises in the Middle East with The Phoenician Scheme
Underneath gorgeously composed absurdities lies a film reckoning with legacy, morality and what it means to be powerful in a world already bought and sold
