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“Fallen Leaves” - (NR; 1 hour, 21 minutes - in Finnish with English subtitles) - Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (“Le Havre,” “The Other Side of Hope”) makes a masterful return with "Fallen Leaves.” This is a timeless, hopeful, and ultimately...

An excerpt from ‘The Life and Times of David Hare: First Secular Educationist of India,’ by Sarojesh Mukherjee.

The directors of The Full Monty, In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton pay tribute to the actor, who died on Saturday, along with David Hare, Richard Eyre, John Madden, Jonathan Pryce, Jay Roach, Justin Theroux, Harriet Walter, Cathy Tyson, Christopher Eccleston, Peter Webber and Marion Bailey

For two decades Tom Wilkinson was a regular and reliable presence on British television screens and on stage, but he was nearly 50 before the viewing public could confidently put a name to the face.

He brought genuine pathos to his role as the former factory foreman struggling to come to terms with redundancy

Versatile stage and screen actor who won a Bafta for his role as Gerald in the hit 1997 film The Full Monty

What a year! I pulled out my notebook over a hundred times and came away, more often not, with a happy heart. Below is a condensed list of the very best - and worst - that I saw.

From The Full Monty to In the Bedroom, Michael Clayton to Eternal Sunshine, the actor – who has died aged 75 – was an intelligent and unshowy delight

Tom Wilkinson, who has died aged 75, was frequently described as “the actor’s actor” – a label usually ascribed to one whose professionalism keeps the show on the road while other, more picturesque, performers bask in the limelight and take the plaudits.

Richard Rampton, KC, who has died aged 82, was widely regarded as one of the greatest defamation lawyers of his generation; a deceptively avuncular yet formidably incisive advocate, he was also a leading authority on libel law as co-author of the seminal textbook on the subject, Duncan and Neill on Defamation.