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<p>Kristen Stewart at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Chronology of Water’ this month</p>

Inside Film

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is pretentious but magnificent

The one-time teen idol has never taken the easy route in her stardom, and her first feature film behind the camera – next month’s ‘The Chronology of Water’ – is an appropriately awkward, non-commercial and impressionistic affair. We need more of this kind of thing, insists Xan Brooks

<p>‘I thought that I would live the rest of my life making movies for a small minority of people in Korea’</p>

Interview

Oldboy’s Park Chan Wook: ‘Korean film is in a state of great danger’

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>

Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

<p>Paying homage: Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’</p>

In Focus

How Nouvelle Vague recaptures Breathless and its role in a revolution

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<p>Ian McKellen in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’</p>

Inside Film

How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?

Elon Musk, JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni have all described JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels as fundamental to their respective world views – but it’d be too easy to claim they’ve simply misunderstood the text, writes Xan Brooks

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Timothée Supreme: How Chalamet finally escaped boy-next-door purgatory

The ‘Dune’ star’s new, Golden Globe-winning role as ping-pong prodigy Marty Mauser is a watershed moment for an actor whose ascendant career has not been without its teething issues, writes Xan Brooks