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Fierce stabs of sexuality and violence cut through the stoic calm of Chadian film-maker Mahamat-Saleh Harouns urgent drama of survival Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is the Chadian film-maker whose 2002 movie Abouna my favourite of his has a claim to classic status. Now he returns with a film that is recognisably a part of African

The 70th annual Met Ball was themed Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Guardian staff Tue 8 May 2018 05.53EDT First published on Mon 7 May 2018 23.40EDT Photograph: Dia Dipasupil/WireImage

Nineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history Until recently, my girlfriend and I lived in a steam-heated apartment in Manhattan. A creaky former tenement building, it had no radiators, just scalding-hot cast iron pipes that punched through the units like fire poles.

Sally Gray, who has died aged 90, was among a group of popular British film star beauties of the 1930s and 40s. But unlike Margaret Lockwood, Jean Kent and Patricia Roc, all of whom attempted careers in Hollywood, albeit unsuccessfully, the blonde with the seductive voice turned down a lucrative RKO contract, preferring to stay

Some novels never quite recover from the brilliance of their opening chapters. The screenwriter Attica Locke's debut is one of them, but it's still a powerful and skilfully constructed conspiracy thriller Chinatown without the air of despairing fatalism.