Film

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

King Vidor’s film helped put Labour into government

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

Liliana Cavani's pitch-black tale of a Nazi and a camp survivor bound together enraged almost everybody on its original release. Half a century on, has the tide turned?

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

It was so dull that Churchill made his excuses and went to bed in the middle of it – even though it was screened especially for him

The advent of sound signalled the end of the silent movie star's career

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

Received Pronunciation was the epicentre of how you had to talk in British plays. Then a play called Look Back in Anger by John Osborne arrived

A new movie role shows there is much more to Sofie Gråbøl than that chunky jumper she wore as Sarah Lund in the classic Scandi noir drama

The late French actor’s enigmatic beauty came to symbolise bohemian style and feminism across Europe

A person considered to be a kind of sexual demon vis-a-vis his actors male and female can also make beautiful, great films

Iain Softley’s cult 1994 directorial debut chronicles the Beatles’ wild early days in Hamburg’s red-light district

Ingrid Bergman said the German possessed more charm in his little finger than most men had in their whole body

Hepburn had come to know early on that delicate thread between life and death. And that she had survived

A new book tells the story of a German film-maker who tried to break with the country’s past

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

The cinematographer not only understood what a camera is meant to do, he visually understood what cinema should do

Many actors, in real life, are the opposite of who they portray or seem to be

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

Just when cinema really needs a bit of sunshine and uplift, along comes a Megaflopolis

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

In her elusive beauty and skill, Arletty was the rival to Garbo

In 1968, three films caught the times in different ways. And they all starred women