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Talking about a new generation festivals ditch the heritage acts

Why the rock gods of the past are headlining elsewhere as they are dropped from line-ups at US music events Coachella, the spring rite of passage for tens of thousands of California teenagers, kicks...

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Fyre Festival: social media ‘influencers’ traded posts for lavish perks

Leaked pitch from the doomed festival shows celebrities and models were given flights and tickets for deceptive promotional posts, violating trade law The disastrous Fyre Festival recruited hundreds of...

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Fyre Festival founder to staff: we can’t pay you, but you can ‘stay and help...

Audio from a call revealed Billy McFarland, founder of the catastrophic festival, telling employees theyre not fired but there will be no payroll in the short term Billy McFarland, the founder of the...

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As Cannes turns 70, must cinema adapt to survive in new digital era?

Festival bosses are welcoming TV shows but have banned Netflix films from the Palme dOr Some would call it a mixed message. The glittering Cannes film festival has at last opened up its exclusive,...

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Ismael’s Ghosts review even Marion Cotillard can’t save this silly,...

Despite a classy cast, which includes Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathieu Amalric alongside Cotillard, Arnaud Desplechins Cannes opener is a baffling mess The Cannes film festival has begun with a twirl...

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A Prayer Before Dawn review kickboxing Thai prison epic goes the full...

Based on the true life account by Billy Moore, Jean-Stephane Sauvaires bloody, brutal film follows a British drug addict as he fights for survival Reality-check for anyone who thought that life inside...

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An Inconvenient Sequel review Al Gore’s new climate change film lacks heat

The former vice presidents latest documentary on the threat to the planet, which opened the Sundance festival, is desultory and surprisingly vainglorious Al Gore knows everybody. He can whip out his...

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David Cameron: from prime minister to reluctant festival-goer

Former PMs glum expression in a couples selfie at the Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire indicates it was not to his liking In a possible sign that he had taken inspiration from Labour leader Jeremy...

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George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence and a shrunken Matt Damon: Oscars race...

The Venice film festival kicks off awards-season with star power from George Clooneys Suburbicon to Damon in sci-fi comedy Downsizing as it fights off competition from Telluride, Toronto and Netflix...

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Home invasions, melting glaciers and Humpty Dumpty is VR finally coming into...

The Venice film festival has dedicated a section to cutting edge virtual-reality features, suggesting that the format may be about to take off as mass entertainment Lazzaretto Vecchio is a small ruined...

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Sundance 2018: Keira Knightley and the new wave of progressive costume drama

With Knightley starring as Colette alongside Rupert Everetts Oscar Wilde biopic and Daisy Ridley as Hamlets Ophelia the period drama has never looked so interesting Sundance 2018 Sundance 2018: Keira...

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24 Frames review a mesmeric glimpse into Abbas Kiarostami’s mysterious mind

The Iranian director has produced a posthumous marvel with this bizarre, experimental ghost-film that even puts his hated cinema seats to decent use Cannes 2017 24 Frames review a mesmeric glimpse into...

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Loveless review – eerie thriller of hypnotic, mysterious intensity from...

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev has produced another masterpiece in this apocalyptic study of a failed marriage and the subsequent disappearance of a child Cannes 2017 Loveless review – eerie...

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Utya massacre re-enactment stuns Berlin audiences

Single-take film shot in real time draws praise from survivors of 2011 attack as it premieres at Berlin festival Berlin film festival 2018 Utya massacre re-enactment stuns Berlin audiences Single-take...

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The Young Karl Marx review intelligent communist bromance

Marx and Engels meet cute in this intense, fervent film about the early development of communism from I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck Raoul Peck is the Haitian film-maker who has an Oscar...

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Foxtrot review Samuel Maoz’s fierce nightmare vision of Israel

The Lebanon directors unflinching family tragedy, set in a surreal Israel where loss and pain are randomly distributed, offers an urgent and witty picture of futility Foxtrot, by the Israeli film-maker...

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Fran Lebowitz: ‘You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump’

She loves to talk, hates to fly and wants to make it clear she takes no responsibility for the state of US politics Be grateful you didnt sit next to Fran Lebowitz on the plane from New York to...

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Isle of Dogs review Wes Anderson’s scintillating stop-motion has bite

Marooning a pack of dogs on a dystopian Japanese island, the auteurs new animation is an inspiringly detailed and surprisingly rough-edged treat Its well known that for Wes Anderson, the world is one...

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Cannes in crisis: has the festival learned the lessons of Weinstein?

A sexual harassment helpline has been set up but they have also welcomed Lars von Trier back to the Croisette. And out of 21 films competing this year, only three are directed by women With its outsize...

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Why does cinema struggle to recreate the music festival?

From Terrence Malicks Song to Song to Taking Woodstock, film-makers are often afraid of getting their hands dirty. That cant be said, however, of new film The Festival When it comes to music festivals,...

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