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Need zing in your Zoom? Let Warhol and the avant-garde vamp up your video conferences

It’s hard to make much of a mark in the strange, static world of video-conferencing. But we could all learn a trick or two from famous arthouse film-makers, from Jim Jarmusch to Andy Warhol

‘People opened up because I’m the Beavis and Butt-head guy’: Mike Judge on his new funk direction

The writer-director’s comedies – from Office Space to Silicon Valley – always sum up the spirit of their times. So why has he made an LSD-soaked cartoon about George Clinton and Bootsy Collins?

From Arnold Schwarzenegger to Naomi Campbell: the best of celebrity quaran-TV

With stars holed up at home during the coronavirus crisis, web series are back on trend. Here’s our pick of the savviest and the silliest, from model hang-outs to Arnie’s reality show

What I’m really watching: tool restoration videos

Continuing our series on viewing habits in self-isolation, one writer finds peace is restored by online restoration videos. Roll on the barn find oil lamp!

Is this the future of film? How to finish a shoot when the coronavirus strikes

When the pandemic halted his war thriller, Timur Bekmambetov popped his leading actor inside a video game and completed the shoot from 1,200km away. Will movies now have to be made this way?

What I’m really watching: instructional knitting videos

Continuing our series on viewing habits in self-isolation, one writer has a ball getting lost in cabling and colourwork

James Bond gun collection stolen in London raid

Pistols from Die Another Day, Walther PPK from A View to a Kill and special chrome Magnum from Live and Let Die among items taken in burglary

Have dog actors had their last on-screen bark?

Dog training is a complex, time-consuming art – and now that CGI can replace them, the canine characters are increasingly outsourced. At what cost?

Cunningham review – powerful 3D documentary about a dance pioneer

This highbrow study is fascinating less for its fancy 3D footsteps than for its insight into choreographer Merce Cunningham’s life and work

Now in 3D! Merce Cunningham’s mind-blowing dance

A superb documentary immerses you in the choreographer’s creations and shows off his own wild and weightless performances

Apple does not ‘let bad guys use iPhones on screen’

Director Rian Johnson lifts lid on brand’s controlling use of product placement, which saw it ensure villains used PCs

Subscribers to multiple streaming services more likely to also be online pirates: survey

Lobby group says those paying for three or more streaming services are the most likely to illegally download content

BFI accused of stealing concept of Thirst Aid Kit podcast

New film season called Thirst covers same themes as podcast and has similar artwork

YouTube at 15: what happened to some of the platform’s biggest early stars?

As YouTube celebrates its 15th birthday, we talk to five early adopters about how the all-singing all-dancing platform has evolved

Musical notes: Scorsese, Madonna, and the awfulness of millennium pop

In our new monthly roundup of our music critics’ musings, we explore a forgotten corner of middle-class post-Britpop angst, and a book that argues for pop’s intrinsic magic

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