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Hollywood, memory and family: how The Fabelmans and Babylon both use music to evoke nostalgia

This year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of…

The Conversation

Escape to the English seaside and sink into the red velvet seats of Empire of Light

With cinematography by Roger Deakins and performances from Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward, Empire of Light captures the vintage splendour of England’s past

The Guardian - AU

Character study almost succeeds

The film follows Hilary (Olivia Colman), the duty manager at a seaside cinema in the south-west of England in the early 1980s.

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The new films and shows out on Disney+ this weekend – March 3

Disney Plus has some great new content dropping this week

Manchester Evening News

Empire of Light, Sam Mendes's homage to cinema, remains lifeless despite moving performances from Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward

In Empire of Light, Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917; Skyfall) draws on his mother's experiences to craft an unusual love story and ode to cinema, set against the backdrop of Thatcherism.

ABC News

'Empire of Light': Sam Mendes takes us on nostalgic trip to the cinema

British director Sam Mendes takes a stroll down memory lane, conjuring up the magic of cinema and the healing power of friendship in "Empire of Light", starring actress Olivia Coleman. Film critic Emma Jones tells us why the film deserved more attention at the awards ceremonies. We also discuss Michael…

France 24

Sam Mendes's latest film, Empire of Light, is about the power of cinema and the stigma of mental illness

The COVID pandemic gave a lot of people time to think and reflect. Some made sourdough, some learned to knit. Director Sam Mendes wrote his first film.

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New on DVD: 'Empire of Light' celebrates power of cinema, friendship

An ode to the hallowed movie theater itself tops the DVD releases for the week of Feb. 21.

Tribune News Service

The week in theatre: The Tempest; Linck & Mülhahn; The Lehman Trilogy – review

Alex Kingston’s fine Prospero weathers an RSC concept storm; the 21st century erupts into a tale of 18th century gender subversion; and illusion captivates in a revival of Sam Mendes’s banking saga

The Guardian - UK

Kate Winslet says filming sex scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio in front of husband was 'weird'

Kate Winslet speaks to the Mirror about her sweet friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio, describing it as one of those 'rare Hollywood friendships' that she feels 'very blessed' to have

Daily Mirror

The Lehman Trilogy review – Sam Mendes’ banking saga returns with dividends

Hadley Fraser, Nigel Lindsay and Michael Balogun are astonishing as the 18th-century bankers who helped to define the American dream

The Guardian - UK

The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre review – the new cast shines in this tour de force production

This story charting 160 years of US capitalism still feels horribly relevant

Evening Standard

From She Said to Devotion: this season’s ignored Oscarbait movies

While Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin lead, the season saw other films with all the requisite ingredients fail to score

The Guardian - US

The Fabelmans will never be fought over like Tár, but it has far more to say about the joy of art

Dark obsession dominates in films about music. By contrast Spielberg captures the playfulness of cinema and storytelling, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

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Dis Life: 'Education decision makers focus on attendance rather than roots of absence'

School, especially secondary school, is often the worst environment in which the 1.5 million kids with disabilities and mental health distress can thrive and learn

The Independent UK

Tom Hanks says ‘no one’ talks about one of his most important films

‘For one reason or another, no one references it,’ he said

The Independent UK

Tom Hanks says ‘no one’ talks about one of his most important films

‘For one reason or another, no one references it,’ he said

The Independent UK

Tom Hanks questions why ‘no one’ talks about one of his most ‘incredibly important’ films

‘For one reason or another, no one references it,’ he said

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The Guardian - UK

‘Artists are moving here from Brooklyn’: Empire of Light puts Margate’s magic in the picture

The east Kent seaside setting for Sam Mendes’ latest film is now home to stylish restaurants and bars, and world-class artists

The Independent UK

Empire of Light review: Sam Mendes strands Olivia Colman in an oddly impersonal love affair

There’s tender care in each frame, but this limp weepie is narratively ice cold

Evening Standard

Sam Mendes says gender-neutral Oscar categories are ‘inevitable’

It comes after The Crown’s Emma Corrin called for gender-neutral categories at film awards.

Daily Mirror

Olivia Colman says affair with younger man was most 'terrifying' part of new film

Olivia Colman plays a lonely cinema worker having an affair with two men, including a younger colleague, in her new movie, Empire of Light, which she describes as the "most terrifying" part

Wales Online

Oscars to have gender neutral award categories, Sir Sam Mendes predicts

Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar in 1999 for American Beauty, has said he has 'total sympathy' with the idea

The Guardian - UK

From Empire of Light to Hunters: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Between Sam Mendes’s love letter to cinema and Al Pacino hunting Hitler, our critics unpack all the culture you need to keep going for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

‘She’s breaking the walls down!’ Olivia Colman and Sam Mendes on mothers, mental illness and the movies

Empire of Light is Mendes’ most personal film to date. He and its stars, including Colman, Micheal Ward and Toby Jones, talk medication, escapism and kicking down sandcastles

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