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The idea of a non-linear time-spanning look at a marriage is not new. The absolute pinnacle of the idea still to me is director Stanley Donen’s and writer Fredric Raphael’s wonderfully sophisticated 1967 comedy Two For the Road, in which Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney flip back and forth in the course of their 12-year marriage. It was so ahead of its time, not just with the idea but in the editing technique used throughout. An absolute classic that didn’t get its full due in its day.

Now the latest in this subgenre is We Live In Time, the romantic comedy from director John Crowley and writer Nick Payne, which attempts to chronicle the decade-old relationship and marriage between Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield). The style isn’t as tricky as Two For the Road’s, but what it undeniably shares in common...

French president Emmanuel Macron has led the tributes to Jean-Luc Godard, after the revered filmmaker died at the age of 91.

News of Godard’s death was first reported by the French newspaper Liberation. It has since been confirmed by his lawyer that the director ended his life by assisted death.

Patrick Jeanneret told Afp that due to being “stricken with ‘multiple incapacitating illnesses’”, Godard “had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure”.

Godard was known for directing a run of radical, medium-changing films throughout the 1960s, including his feature debut Breathless and Alphaville.

Along with contemporaries such as Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and François Truffaut, the Paris-born Godard was a central figure in the Nouvelle Vague, an experimental film movement that emerged in France in the late 1950s.

Several of his films are frequently cited among the best movies ever made.

Alongside a black and white photograph of the “iconoclastic” Godard,...

French president Emmanuel Macron has led the tributes to Jean-Luc Godard, after the revered filmmaker died at the age of 91.

News of Godard’s death was first reported by the French newspaper Liberation.

Godard was known for directing a run of radical, medium-changing films throughout the 1960s, including his feature debut Breathless and Alphaville.

Along with contemporaries such as Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and François Truffaut, the Paris-born Godard was a central figure in the Nouvelle Vague, an experimental film movement that emerged in France in the late 1950s.

Several of his films are frequently cited among the best movies ever made.

Alongside a black and white photograph of the “iconoclastic” Godard, Macron’s tribute read: “It was like an apparition in French cinema. Then he became a master.

“Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We have lost a national treasure,...

Exclusive: UK thriller comes from writer-director Mike Doxford, Achilles Entertainments.

Metrodome Distribution has struck a deal for all UK and Ireland rights – including a limited theatrical release – to Pleasure Island, Achilles Entertainments’ second feature written and directed by Mike Doxford.

Coffee & Cigarettes brokered the deal, which will include a limited theatrical run.

Pleasure Island follows army veteran Dean (Ian Sharp) who returns to his hometown of Grimsby to find unexpected animosity and threats. When the life of his childhood friend Jess (Gina Bramhill) is threatened he will do all it takes to make sure she is safe.

Conner Chapman (The Selfish Giant), Rick Warden (Indian Summers) and Samuel Anderson (Doctor Who) co-star. Matt Kennard co-produces.

Doxford said: “I was drawn to the setting. It’s a region rarely explored on camera, rich with stories and fascinating people. The film found its voice by shooting on location, amidst the local culture and starkly beautiful scenery, revealing a unique...

Freight

UK DVD

Directed by Stuart St. Paul

Starring Billy Murray, Danny Midwinter, Craig Fairbrass, Stephen Uppal, Matt Kennard, Sam Kennard, Laura Aikman, Natalie Anderson

Released April 18, 2011

British cinema has long been associated with crime dramas. It is a long tradition which stretches from gritty gangster fares such as Get Carter and The Krays through to more recent underworld flicks like Gangster No1 and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Thanks to the success of these, the latest generation of British filmmakers has produced a constant reel of new British crime films in recent years.

These films, it has to be said, are of varying quality. Often they are films full of enthusiasm but slightly rough-around-the-edges and sometimes just downright boring. So I was slightly apprehensive when I came to watch the latest genre effort to make it on to DVD, Freight, the sixth film written and directed by ex-stunt coordinator Stuart St. Paul.

Digital Spy presents the full winners' list from this year's British Soap Awards. Viewer-Voted Categories: Sexiest Male (Last year’s winner was Rob James Collier, Coronation Street)

Coronation Street:

Chris Gascoyne (Peter Barlow)

Gray O'Brien (Tony Gordon)

Ryan Thomas (Jason Grimshaw) Doctors:

Matthew Chambers (Dr Daniel Granger)

Matt Kennard (Archie Hallam)

Adrian Lewis Morgan (Dr Jimmi Clay) EastEnders:

Robert Kazinsky (Sean Slater)

Scott Maslen (Jack Branning) - Winner!

John Partridge (Christian Clarke) Emmerdale:

Kelvin Fletcher (Andy Sugden)

Tom Lister (Carl King)

Matthew Wolfenden (David Metcalfe) Hollyoaks:

Chris Fountain (Justin Burton)

Barry Sloane (Niall Rafferty)

Ricky Whittle (Calvin Valentine) Sexiest Female (Last year’s winner was Roxanne McKee, Hollyoaks)

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Digital Spy presents the full winners list from this year's British Soap Awards.

Viewer Voted Categories:

Sexiest Male

Coronation Street:

Rob James-Collier (Liam Connor) - Winner

Ryan Thomas (Jason Grimshaw)

Gray O’Brien (Tony Gordon)

Doctors:

Matthew Chambers (Dr Daniel Granger)

Matt Kennard (Nurse Archie Hallam)

Michael McKell (Dr Nick West)

EastEnders:

Robert Kazinsky (Sean Slater)

Stephen Lord (Jase Dyer)

Scott Maslen (Jack Branning)

Emmerdale:

Tom Lister (Carl King)

Joseph Gilgun (Eli Dingle)

Matthew Wolfenden (David Metcalfe)

Hollyoaks:

Ricky Whittle (Calvin Valentine)

Jamie Lomas (Warren Fox)

James Sutton (John Paul McQueen)

Sexiest Female

Coronation Street:

Samia Smith (Maria Sutherland) . . .