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Time marches on for Smith of Derby

Founded in 1856, the company is the survivor of British horology, having absorbed several rivals




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Corporate leaders ride the innovation wave

From heritage to healthcare, via regenerating the city centre, local business is ‘recognising its strengths’




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Derby’s industrious architecture celebrates old and new

Eye-catching locations around the city exemplify its modern ambition




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Buddies — a powerful Aids drama from 1985

Arthur J. Bressan’s re-released film has charm and poignancy




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Motherless Brooklyn — Edward Norton directs and stars in a bloated crime thriller

The actor plays a detective with Tourette’s syndrome in this 1950s-set film




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Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville star in cancer drama Ordinary Love

This hospital saga is gripping, well acted and sometimes harrowing




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The Cave is a blistering documentary about a Syrian hospital

The doctor at the heart of this film shows dauntless compassion




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So Long, My Son is an intricately tragic drama set in China’s one-child era

Wang Xiaoshuai’s wonderfully acted film is an epic of love and loss




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Shia LaBeouf’s childhood is re-enacted in the manic tragicomedy Honey Boy

An autobiographical movie that strips bare the actor’s early years




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Citizen K — Mikhail Khodorkovsky documentary paints the dissident as a saint

Alex Gibney’s film portrays its subject as all but flawless. Can that be right?




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The Kingmaker — up close with Imelda Marcos, spendthrift superdiva

Lauren Greenfield’s documentary about the Philippines’ former First Lady is comic as well as horrific




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Jumanji: The Next Level — Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black go full video game

Drama and substance are peripheral in a movie that’s as lacking in humanity as you might expect




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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is fun and fantastic (in parts)

There’s swashbuckling and explosions, but Adam Driver is the real star of the ninth and final film in the Skywalker saga




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Style triumphs over content in Long Day’s Journey into Night

Chinese film-maker Bi Gan’s movie slips into a beautiful, bewildering netherworld




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Cats lands on its feet with terrific choreography, Judi Dench, James Corden and Taylor Swift

Tom Hooper’s musical adaptation is weird, wonderful and worryingly erotic




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My 50 years as a film critic

In five decades, Nigel Andrews saw every movie and met all the stars. This is what he learnt




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Five decades, 25 films — Nigel Andrews’ favourites

From ‘Raging Bull’ to ‘Spirited Away’, the FT’s outgoing film critic picks his top movies




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Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is vibrant, sardonic and out­rageously gorgeous

Saoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel — with sly feminist subtexts




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La Dolce Vita — a timely return for Fellini’s caustic classic

The director’s satire on consumerist culture shines through in this sparkling new print




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Spies in Disguise — Will Smith and Tom Holland save the planet, if not the movie

Fun though it may be, this collection of out-takes is never quite the sum of its parts




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Best films of 2019

FT film critic Nigel Andrews selects his favourites, from the voluptuous crime-athon ‘The Irishman’ to the harrowing war documentary ‘For Sama’




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Federico Fellini at 100 and the myth of realism

Nigel Andrews on how the Italian auteur abandoned neorealism for something looser and more fantastical




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Terry Jones, actor, writer and director, 1942-2020

The versatile Monty Python star who sided with the underdog




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Kirk Douglas, Hollywood actor, 1916—2020

For a postwar movie generation Kirk Douglas was the definition of ‘macho’




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From Psycho to Parasite: why the basement is cinema’s scariest location

Ever since I was knee-high to Nosferatu, I have loved steps and stairs on screen




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John Boorman: hits, myths and borrowed tales

The brilliance of the director’s early work reflects western cinema’s genius for refashioning primal stories and pulp fiction




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The five best mass-infection movies — and two new odes to endurance

War films 1917 and the upcoming Painted Bird are the latest entries in a sub-genre driven by relentless adversity and survival




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Shopify surges as retailers rush online

Shares at Canadian ecommerce group hit high as revenues jump 47%




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Tech losers can win longer term

Uber cuts 3,700 staff, Libra’s first CEO, Microsoft Surface surfeit




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NHS tracing app in question as experts assess Google-Apple model

Swiss firm hired to test mainstream software despite launch of go-it-alone system




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FT’s legal hackathon races to ease pandemic pressures

Projects under way range from more efficient legal aid to facilitating esignatures




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Twitter failing to curb misinformation ‘superspreaders’, report warns

Posts from high-profile accounts found to be promoting questionable virus therapies and cures




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UKFast founders exit as private equity firm takes control

Inflexion has become majority shareholder following sexual assault allegations against former CEO




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UK starts to build second contact tracing app

NHS team is told to build alternative on system being developed by Apple and Google




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Schools scramble to meet demand for online MBAs

Flexibility and lower fees appeal — but not all providers are competing on price




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Will online MBAs boost diversity in business schools?

Ease of access and (sometimes) greater affordability are attracting a broader demographic




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Decision time: should I study online or on campus?

Would-be students need to consider the trade-off between flexibility and networking




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Mini-courses pave the way to a full MBA

Online learning modules boost students’ academic confidence and business knowhow




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Financial Times Online MBA directory 2020

Find out which schools are offering distance-learning post-graduate business degrees




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Coronavirus accelerates switch to online MBAs

Online courses grow while future of campus-based qualifications is questioned




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Grappling with the high turnover of deans

There is a limited pool of candidates to fill what has become a complex leadership role




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Students flock to study quant finance in record numbers

Enrollees from India and China make up a third of intake




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Education leaders look for students with practical potential and ‘Midlands grit’

Teaching geared to developing ‘ability to use wide range of career skills’




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AI in education will help us understand how we think

Robot teachers are the start of an evolving relationship with artificial intelligence




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Remote teaching becomes vital during virus outbreak

Universities and business schools are facing unprecedented challenges across the world




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Coursera offers help to universities hit by coronavirus

Online learning group grants free access to teaching platform for institutions in lockdown




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How remote study is changing business school life

The coronavirus crisis has created new ways to learn and collaborate




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MBA students demand tuition fee refunds over campus closures

Candidates at Wharton among those protesting over diminished educational experience




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Is now the right time to apply for an MBA?

Top schools offer deadline extensions and more flexible entry requirements for flagship courses




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