Film
Michael Moore: Q+A
The documentary-maker on capitalism, Obama and why Britain is about to get punished
An Education (12A)/Taking Woodstock (15)
It’s hard to avoid cliché in such a well-visited era
Seduction line
“What a tremendous eye he has,” said David Bowie of the film-maker Nagisa Oshima after working with him on Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Ryan Gilbey celebrates the Japanese director’s eroticism and wicked sense of humour
Fish Tank (15)
A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands
Back to mine
From Yorkshire to Somerset, the coal industry once employed a million men and was the lifeblood of hundreds of communities. A new season of films preserve the memory of a lost era
Big River Man (15) and Bustin’ Down the Door (15)
Two waterborne documentaries leave several questions floating
Broken Embraces (15)
The once searingly original Spanish auteur stoops to self-parody
Inglourious Basterds (18)
Nazi hunters mix with cinema buffs in a return to form for Tarantino
Sin nombre (15)
This immigrant tale is a flimsy but entertaining gangland thriller
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (15)
There’s life yet in the French gangster movie genre
Kambakkht Ishq (12A)
There’s no need for Bollywood to appeal to Middle England – it’s a success already
Books
Paul Auster
Interview
Alain de Botton
Pop art
The end of irony?
Film review
Bright Star
Classical music
Alfred Schnittke
Will Self
On Oscar Wilde
Jason Cowley
On Philip Roth
Slavoj Žižek
Lenin was right
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