Brokeback Mountain

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Brokeback Mountain review – perfectly pitched staging of the heartbreaking love story
The desolately poignant tale is brought into stark relief in Jonathan Butterell’s production through Eddi Reader’s beautiful vocals and a compelling cast

Arifa Akbar

19, May, 2023 @12:34 PM

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The cuddling cowboys ride again! Saddle up as Brokeback Mountain is staged with songs
As the two hard-loving herders from the 2005 Oscar-winner get back on their horses, the team behind a new musical version talk about fear, regret – and the tragic power of forbidden desire

Ryan Gilbey

09, May, 2023 @1:52 PM

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Willie Nelson’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!
As the 90-year-old country icon releases a new album, I Don’t Know a Thing About Love, we look back on the outlaw’s best tracks

Garth Cartwright

27, Apr, 2023 @1:33 PM

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Larry McMurtry obituary
American novelist who wrote Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain

Michael Carlson

31, Mar, 2021 @4:27 PM

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Lonesome Dove author and Brokeback Mountain screenwriter Larry McMurtry dies at 84
The Pulitzer-winning author of novels including Terms of Endearment and The Last Picture Show, and Oscar-winning screenwriter, examined the American west

Alison Flood

26, Mar, 2021 @6:06 PM

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Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest
With the release of Noah Baumbach’s crushing divorce saga Marriage Story, Guardian writers have reminisced over their most memorable big screen breakups

Gretchen Smail , Peter Bradshaw, Charles Bramesco, André Wheeler , Benjamin Lee, Adrian Horton, Pamela Hutchinson, Andrew Pulver, Guy Lodge, Jordan Hoffman and Catherine Shoard

07, Nov, 2019 @6:00 AM

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Ang Lee: 'I know I'm gonna get beat up. But I have to keep trying'
The celebrated film-maker’s new film pits Will Smith against his much-younger clone – a reverie on the ageing of both the star and the director

Ryan Gilbey

03, Oct, 2019 @2:04 PM

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The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

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Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio turned down Brokeback Mountain
Original director Gus Van Sant has revealed that multiple A-listers turned down the chance to star in the gay romance

Catherine Shoard

19, Jul, 2018 @10:29 AM

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How gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future
A wave of quietly revolutionary films are taking a thoughtful and celebratory look at queer identity – and reaping the rewards at the box office

Guy Lodge

15, Jun, 2018 @11:40 AM

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'Absolutely kills me': you pick your saddest movie scenes
Our writers picked their peaks of cinematic sadness and you responded with animated elephants, Christmas melancholy and emotional reunions

Guardian readers

19, May, 2018 @9:00 AM

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Cher is Meryl Streep's mum – and five more age-impossible casting choices
There are just three years between the two stars of Mamma Mia 2, yet one apparently gave birth to the other. Cinema has a proud history of credulity-challenging families

Stuart Heritage

01, May, 2018 @11:45 AM

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