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Sunday, 27 Sep 2020

This week's new film events

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

Images Of Black Women Film Festival | London Palestine Film Festival | Marcel L'Herbier: Fabricating Dreams

Images Of Black Women Film Festival, London

This festival has a clear mission: to promote women of African descent, in front of and behind the camera. The result is a spread of films from around the globe that you're unlikely to see anywhere...

British politics: She came, she saw, she conquered

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

What a good show

Margaret Thatcher—The Authorised Biography, Volume I: From Grantham to the Falklands. By Charles Moore. Knopf; 896 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk

IT HELPS to be lucky if you are a politician and Margaret Thatcher was luckier than most: lucky that she came to power when the old order was crumbling and

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Technology and the future: Feel the force

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. By Evgeny Morozov. PublicAffairs; 415 pages; $28.99. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk

Who Owns the Future? By Jaron Lanier. Simon and Schuster; 397 pages; $28. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of

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I'm So Excited, The Eye Of The Storm, Gimme The Loot: what to see at the cinema this week

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

I'm So Excited (15)
(Pedro Almodóvar, 2012, Spa) Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Areces. 90 mins

Almodóvar responds to his country's economic woes...

New fiction: Fatty issue

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

Big Brother. By Lionel Shriver. HarperCollins; 373 pages; £16.99. To be published in America next month by Harper; $26.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk

LIONEL SHRIVER knows the drawbacks of using her own family in her fiction. Famous for the bestselling “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, which won the Orange prize for fiction in 2005, she once lam

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Digestion: Down the hatch

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. By Mary Roach. Norton; 352 pages; $26.95. OneWorld; £11.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk

LITTLE mattered more to Horace Fletcher than the thorough mastication of food. For one-fifth of an ounce of the midway section of a shallot, Fletcher, an American health-food nut, championed 722 chomps. In 1912

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Next week's radio: from Tweet Of The Day to The First Time

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

Tweet Of The Day | The Gatsby Factor | NPR's American Icons | Counterpoint | The First Time

All 256 two-minute episodes of new birdsong programme Tweet Of The Day (weekdays, 5.58am, Radio 4)will be kept online forever. This is the way all broadcasting is going, whether the programme-makers like it or not. You wonder how the above title will play 10...

New art: Gallagher’s ghosts

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

Rational exuberance

ELLEN GALLAGHER was born in 1965 in Rhode Island, the daughter of an African-American father with ties to Cape Verde in West Africa and an American-Irish mother. Now she divides her time between New York and Rotterdam. Ms Gallagher mines sci-fi, marine biology and black history for her art, variously making use of cut-up paper,

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Richard Williams: the master animator

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Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:50

Richard Williams was a pioneer of hand-drawn animation, working on films such as The Pink Panther and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. But perhaps his most enduring work is his masterclass, The Animator's Survival Kit

When the animator Richard Williams celebrated his 80th birthday last month he was the subject of widespread and heartfelt acclaim as one of...

This week's new film events

Images Of Black Women Film Festival, London

British politics: She came, she saw, she conquered

Technology and the future: Feel the force

I'm So Excited, The Eye Of The Storm, Gimme The Loot: what to see at the cinema this week

I'm So Excited (15)
(Pedro Almodóvar, 2012, Spa) Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Areces. 90 mins

New fiction: Fatty issue

Digestion: Down the hatch

Next week's radio: from Tweet Of The Day to The First Time

New art: Gallagher’s ghosts

Richard Williams: the master animator

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(Pedro Almodóvar, 2012, Spa) Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Areces. 90 mins