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• Cannes 2019: Bong Joon-ho's Parasite wins the Palme d'Or – as it happened

  25-05-2019 23:11
  South Korean director takes home the top prize for his dark thriller, while Antonio Banderas wins best actor for Pain and GloryReaction: sorry they missed you, Tarantino but Cannes was right to celebrate Parasite 10.11pm BST And Bong is whisked away from the press conference, and hopefully towards a bloody big victory party. With that, we’re off too. Congratulations to Bong Joon-ho and all the winners at the 2019 Cannes film festival. And thanks to everyone who followed events at home. See
  
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• Cannes 2019 Winners: South Korean Movie ‘Parasite’ Wins the Palme d’Or

  25-05-2019 22:34 via nytimes.com
  The film by the director Bong Joon-ho is the first South Korean film to win the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival.
  
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• Cannes 2019: Bong Joon-ho's Parasite wins the Palme d'Or – live

  25-05-2019 22:23
  South Korean director takes home the top prize for his dark thriller, while Antonio Banderas wins best actor for Pain and GloryReaction: sorry they missed you, Tarantino but Cannes was right to celebrate Parasite 9.23pm BST Emily Beecham is chatting now about her best actress win, which it seems she was pretty surprised by:“I had a kind of inkling this morning because I had a phone call from a producer. I had to put my stuff in a backpack and get on a plane.”9.22pm BST More praise fo
  
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• Bong Joon-ho's Parasite wins Palme d'Or at Cannes film festival

  25-05-2019 20:19
  Black-comic thriller from South Korean director of Okja and Snowpiercer takes the top honours at the 72nd edition of the festival
  •The awards – live!Bong Joon-ho has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival for his black comic thriller Parasite.The South Korean director is best known for previous films Okja and Snowpiercer, and earned rave reviews for his new film, which is about a poor family who insinuate themselves as servants into a much richer one. The Guardian’
  
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• Cannes 2019: the winner of the Palme d'Or to be announced – live

  25-05-2019 19:56
  Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodóvar are among those competing for the top prize as the film festival draws to a close. Follow all the action as it happensCannes 2019: read Peter Bradshaw’s Palme predictions 6.56pm BST Michael Moore hosting this one. He dabbles in a little French, before taking aim at – yep – Donald Trump. He’s calling for film-makers to rise up and create “art in dark times”, while also nodding to Pablo Picasso.And the winner is ... L
  
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• Another fine mesh: how Game of Thrones chainmail couture is invading the catwalks

  25-05-2019 15:57
  Fashion is embracing a whole new revival of metallic chic inspired by the hit showCall it the Game of Thrones effect. Chainmail, once the preserve of medieval knights, 1990s supermodels and 1960s style icons, has won fashion’s favour this season, roaring back on to the catwalks and dazzling on the red carpets. But beware: it’s not for the faint-hearted.In the past month Tilda Swinton wore a chainmail dress in Cannes, while Sienna Miller and Crazy Rich Asians star Gemma Chan brought t
  
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• Galdem Sugar: can a grime reality show ever work?

  25-05-2019 12:00
  Instead of sipping cocktails and having fights, the female rappers work out in a dog poo-covered park in EdmontonEver wondered what Made in Chelsea would be like if it starred five female grime artists? No? Well here’s that reality series you definitely didn’t ask for: Galdem Sugar (Thursday 30 May, BBC Three, from 10am).The “constructed reality” series follows the rappers – C Cane, Laughta, Cassie Rytz, Madders Tiff and Pre Wavy – as they make a podcast toget
  
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• Jeremy Kyle and human bear baiting: is the age of angry TV over?

  25-05-2019 07:59
  With the rise of feelgood telly and the fall of the ITV talkshow host, antagonistic entertainment is losing its power Modern Toss on Reality TVGet off your backside and get a job!” “Can you even spell father?” “Put something on the end of it!” For 14 years, The Jeremy Kyle Show was a hotbed of insults, poverty porn and lie-detector-facilitated humiliation. A dark jewel in ITV’s daytime crown, it was once described by a judge sentencing a former guest as &ldquo
  
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• TV tonight: are you ready for Britain's Got Talent to take over your life?

  25-05-2019 07:00
  BGT will soon be dominating the whole week, as we kick up to the live semi-finals. Will the Flakefleet kids be alright? Continue reading...
  
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• Geneviève Waïte, 71, Star of the Swinging-’60s Film ‘Joanna,’ Dies

  25-05-2019 01:32 via nytimes.com
  Her role as a waifish art student who has an interracial affair brought her fame and notoriety. But her time in the spotlight proved to be short.
  
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