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Cock is a prickly tale of sexual confusion

19.11.09
The title of Mike Bartlett's new play, Cock, may excite your inner punster, but the piece itself is far from being a trawl through tawdriness.... more

A captivating love story in Bright Star

06.11.09
Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan... more

Provocative play keeps theatre on roll

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Bright Star is a touching tale of Keats' brief love

19.10.09
Though by no means old-fashioned and in some ways thoroughly modern, Bright Star is a telling of a tragic story that doesn't play too many tricks with history... more

Opening in London this week

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The Hoerengracht exhibition opens at the National Gallery with The Habit of Art at the National Theatre.... more

British movie heaven - the Brit flicks heading our way

18.09.09
John Lennon, Charles Darwin, John Keats and Heath Ledger are all coming soon in a bumper crop of homegrown releases... more

Hot tickets: The London Film Festival

17.09.09
The first wave of the BFI's ever-complicated booking system opens for next month's London Film Festival, which has one of its best-ever line-ups... more

Rachel Hurd-Wood: a modern gothic starlet

21.08.09
To date, Rachel Hurd-Wood's bodice has been ripped by Ben Whishaw, Ben Barnes and James Purefoy, and she's still only 19. Hettie Harvey meets costume drama's newest discovery... ... more

Is a New Women's Cinema emerging?

17.07.09
Female film-makers are making a big impact at the movies. Does this mean, asks Courtney Hunt, director of Oscar-nominated Frozen River, that we are seeing a New Women's Cinema emerge?... more

Sam Taylor-Wood in Cannes with her new actor boyfriend, aged 19

18.05.09
The artist turned film director Sam Taylor-Wood is dating a teenage actor 23 years her junior.... more

Keats casts spell on Cannes star

15.05.09
Rising star Ben Whishaw has described falling in love with the poetry of John Keats as he prepared for his new movie, a contender for the Palme d’Or prize at Cannes... more

Jane Campion makes Bright Star a thing of beauty

15.05.09
Jane Campion has made a beautiful film out of the sad story of John Keats’s hopeless romance with Fanny Brawne.... more

The Cannes crew

20.04.09
We won’t know who’s made it until Thursday but for now here’s our own dream line-up... more

Sachs is cross as Ross is up for Bafta

24.03.09
Andrew Sachs has spoken of his surprise as Jonathan Ross was nominated for a Bafta... more

A winning year for leading lights of the London stage

25.11.08
A 100-year History Cycle and an Othello reinvented, a vivacious newcomer and a brace of best actresses — our judges explain why they chose the winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Brideshead is hurriedly revisited

30.09.08
After more than 60 years, Brideshead Revisited has finally made it to the big screen in a thoughtful and handsomely mounted adaptation. ... more

25 events to raise your spirits this autumn

24.09.08
Something might be rotten in the City but in London’s arts world there’s plenty to be upbeat about. Here’s our pick of must-sees to brighten up longer nights... more

Revisited Brideshead is no match for TV ancestor

07.08.08
Much-anticipated new interpretation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited becomes consumed with nostalgia for the Granada series.... more

Here's a prince for our time

06.08.08
David Tennant is sensational as a manic-depressive and authentic Hamlet but the play is lacking something, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Whishaw caught in portrayal of betrayal

31.07.08
Katie Mitchell's latest production, ...some trace of her, leaves Nicholas de Jongh bemused, confused and deeply unenthused.... more

Brides-ted Resuscitated - reprieve as Aloysius the bear is set to appear in £10million movie adaptation of classic English novel

18.05.08
To purists, he was an essential part of that classic English novel Brideshead Revisited. So they were aghast when it was revealed Aloysius the teddy bear would not feature in the £10million movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's upper-class saga. However, as our picture reveals, Lord Sebastian Flyte's furry companion has been granted a reprieve – even if he has lost rather a lot of weight since last seen in the 1981 TV version ... more

Indy’s going to Cannes – but where are all the Brits?

24.04.08
Among the 19 names revealed for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival only two directors are flying Union Jacks.... more

Can the Doctor conquer Hamlet?

04.01.08
Shakespeare has never been more popular, but in the first of three major productions of the Danish tragedy, David Tennant has a fight on his hands.... more

Bob's not there, but Cate is ...

20.12.07
Six actors portray Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, with one of them, Cate Blanchett, almost certain to get an Oscar nomination.... more

Too dark to shed light

10.05.07
Philip Ridley's latest work Leaves of Glass, which deals with sexual and psychic damage done in childhood, offers few illuminating insights into paedophilia, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

The Bafta nominations in full

12.01.07
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Bond girl Eva up for Bafta

08.01.07
Casino Royale Bond girl Eva Green is one of five young film stars who have been nominated for Bafta's Orange Rising Star Award.... more

Scent and sensibility

27.12.06
A 16-year-old Londoner is the star of Perfume, the film of the cult novel. But she's determined not to follow Peaches Geldof on the celebrity circuit.... more

The sweet smell of success

01.09.06
It has taken 20 years to bring the 'unfilmable' bestseller Perfume to the screen. The Standard has had an exclusive preview and here we tell the intriguing story of how it was made.... more

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