CULTURE

11 of the Winter Olympics’ most striking images

7. Mass and motionGetty ImagesTransformed by a photographer's lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated push of…

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Why critics scorned Beryl Cook’s ‘saucy’ paintings

Jolly, kitsch and bawdy, Beryl Cook's paintings were loved by the British public but derided by the art establishment. One…

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A moving, tragic biopic of a tortured jazz great ★★★★☆

Bill Evans was a boundary-breaking US pianist who contended with multiple personal tragedies, and a serious drug problem. This new…

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The Addams Family to St Elmo’s Fire: 12 of the best alternative romantic films

AlamyJulie & Julia (2009)Nora Ephron wrote When Harry Met Sally and she wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, so you…

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This bold reinvention of Emily Brontë’s novel is ‘sexy, dramatic and swoonily romantic’

Robbie turns up in the first of many bright red-and-white dresses, and her performance is magnificent, making Cathy wild and…

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How Wuthering Heights became this year’s most divisive film

In the trailer, Robbie is seen doing some highly suggestive breadmaking, her cheeks flushed and her bodice heaving, as she…

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Why ‘masterpiece’ Wuthering Heights is so misunderstood

Heathcliff lives a life of torment and uncontainable grief, but inflicts that suffering on everyone around him and feels no…

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10 of the best films to watch this February

Universal Pictures9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in ConcertWhen Baz Luhrmann was researching his Elvis biopic, he unearthed dozens of boxes of…

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‘Sweet and tender’ or ‘like abuse’? Why gay BDSM ‘romcom’ Pillion is dividing opinion

Though Bisbey praises Pillion as "one of the most authentic depictions of a leather relationship I've seen on screen", she…

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Why this Robert Burns classic is a masterpiece

Nannie and her cohorts aren't pleased to hear it: Tam has to flee on horseback with a crowd of screeching…

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