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Film round-up: September 26, 2024
Decline and fall of the US empire, rehab in Orkney, the younger self, and lone wolves
RICHARD CLARKE recommends a hugely valuable text for those seeking theoretical analysis and practical action to defend public services
JOHN HAWKINS is moved by an oral history that examines five black families pushed into homelessness in the US
BOB NEWLAND recommends an outstanding study of how images have shaped narratives of identity, resistance and power in South Africa
While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID
In an exhibition of the graphic art of Lorna Miller, MATT KERR takes a lungful of the oxygen of dissent
The Star's critics review The Sinking Of The Lisbon Maru, Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other, American Dreamer, When Autumn Falls, and Flow
Megalopolis (15)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
★★
ONE of the greatest film-makers of our time, Francis Ford Coppola returns with his most ambitious passion project: a Roman epic, which was at least 40 years in the making, and which proves to be a glorious, baffling mess of visuals and ideas.
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