of communications under president trump and lord kim darroch, former british ambassador to the us. first, the latest headlines. joe biden and volodymyr zelensky have signed a landmark us ukraine security deal, with the us president warning russia that kyiv s allies are not backing down . mr biden said the bilateral agreement, plus a g7 deal for a $50 billion loan for ukraine using frozen russian funds, collectively showed mr putin that he cannot wait us out. hezbollah has fired a fresh barrage of rockets and drones from lebanon into israel in retaliation for the killing of a senior commander on tuesday. israel said a number of projectiles were intercepted by air defences, although some hit open areas, igniting fires. russian prosecutors say the american journalist, evan gershkovich, will go on trial for espionage at a court in the urals, but no date has been given. mr gershkovich was reporting for the wall streetjournal when he was accused of spying. he denies the charge
To mark 120 years since the great director’s birth, we revisit this 1950 interview, in which Ophüls candidly appraises his talents as a filmmaker – and actor.
The unsettling close of Kim Ki-young’s delightfully unhinged 1960 film, a key work from the golden age of South Korean filmmaking, offers a subversive riposte to Hollywood norms.
Ingmar Bergman’s devastating 1969 portrait of the faltering love affair between a haunted widow and a recent divorcé strips back the layers until nothing is left but solitude.