Film

Textured and monumental, Blitz is the work of a great British director at the height of his powers

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

Thomas Vinterberg founded Dogma 95 and changed the movie industry for ever. Is another revolution possible – and what would it look like?

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

Joker: Folie à Deux takes music and makes it a medium for deception, pain and lethal misunderstanding

The male film director who puts powerful females first

Francis Ford Coppola’s hell-for-leather sci-fi epic was 40 years in the making and is an extraordinary film that defies convention

The surprising origins of The Prisoner of Zenda, the ultimate swashbuckling tale of derring-do

The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, tackles alcoholism, sobriety and an outsider’s search for the soul of Europe

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

The trailblazing French actress defied Hollywood’s ageism to win an Academy Award for Room at the Top

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

The rise and fall of the spaghetti western

The Frenchman relished each project with its opportunity for reinvention, presenting a new challenge each time

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, books and cinema

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema and books

Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival

A raucous, funny movie about controversial Northern Irish rap group Kneecap turns out to be an impassioned cry for the power of indigenous language

The director emerged from a well-trodden European emigration narrative to become a Zelig-like figure in the early history of modern popular culture

One Bad Guy denouement makes me think of the Republican Party’s candidate for POTUS

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, books and music

As cinema shows, the coach has a kind of sacred space in American life

The exotic world of James Bond was also that of his creator, Ian Fleming

The brilliant, troubling Alain Delon was at his most electric when doing nothing other than staring blankly back at us

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema and books

Hollywood vintage has produced films of varying quality about hillbilly people. Its masterpiece, of course, is John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, streaming and books

Women presidents in film get into all kinds of trouble, mainly because they’re not at home taking care of their kids and cooking for their husbands

It is a great virtue, and a great gift as well, to know when to stop. Especially when you’re at the top

‘The Gay Girl from Gaul’ had a brief, traumatic – and wet – experience of stardom

The cinema looks at the clash of realities that is the US – and makes movies out of it

A remarkable new documentary sees the son of commandant Rudolph Höss meet a survivor of his father’s murder factory