Hollywood's pre-code Babylon

Hollywood's pre-code Babylon

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Yorkshire

As a new adaptation of Emily Bronte's Yorkshire-set novel Wuthering Heights hits cinemas, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at how the area known as God's Own Country has been depicted in film and television.Mark speaks to Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker about his love for the 1969 ...  Show more

New Iranian Cinema

For more than six decades, in the face of censorship and even imprisonment, Iranian filmmakers have produced some of the world’s best-loved cinema. And now, with the legendary Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s latest film It Was Just An Accident up for Oscar and BAFTA Awards, Ellen ...  Show more

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