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Director Gavin Hood boldly tackles the gruesome details of 'extraordinary rendition' and torture. But when it comes to questions of justice, he tiptoes, says Peter Bradshaw. Here's the first mainstream Hollywood film about the CIA's practice of "extraordinary rendition": that is, kidnapping terrorist suspects and flying them to states that tolerate extreme interrogation amounting to torture.
Industry mourns champion of British film who excelled at opera and TV as well as winning Hollywood acclaim writes Mark Brown and Charlotte Higgins. Anthony Minghella, a central figure of the British film industry and one of the most renowned filmmakers the country has produced, died last week aged 54 from a haemorrhage in hospital - days after an operation was judged to have gone well.
