Film

Spielberg, Mendes and a year of film nostalgia

His was acting of remarkable subtlety and nuance, especially when sharing the screen with some of cinema’s most magnetic women

The Dane had a reputation as a vamp but in truth was as fragile as a gazelle

Why Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's novel remains a story for all eras

Jeanne Dielman, directed by Chantal Akerman in 1975, beats Citizen Kane to be voted the best movie ever in Sight and Sound magazine poll

Eric Cantona took to the screens in his second act. But even if his films are one day forgotten, the footage of his greatest role – as a footballer – will be replayed for a long, long time

What attracts French film-makers to the DH Lawrence novel that scandalised Britain?

A new documentary explores the interlocking lives, work and collection of film-makers Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová

A transfixing reflection on the plight of asylum seekers should be at the top of Suella Braverman’s watch list

A collage exposing the dark heart of the British countryside gets a musical makeover. But what will the Europeans make of it?

A combination of Covid, Hindu nationalism and low standards have caused a slump in the Indian film industry, prompting an exodus of stars and producers. Can Bollywood survive?

The UK Jewish film festival forces us to confront the past, no matter how agonising

Florence Pugh excels in the tale of a 19th-century Irish miracle that comes with a very modern subtext

A new Italian heist movie toys, Tarantino–style, with the story of Mussolini's treasure

It's a period film. It's a monster movie. It's a martial arts picture. It's Brotherhood Of The Wolf and its improbable global cult status is long overdue

For all Fellini is held up as the ultimate chronicler of Rome in the 20th century, it’s Rimini that made him and Rimini that inhabits his films

Triumph at Cannes has been followed by tragedy for Ruben Östlund’s satire of the super-rich at play, Triangle of Sadness

Wim Wenders's classic film premiered in West Berlin 35 years ago. Today it stands apart from both his and everyone else’s work

The one-time middleweight Greco-Roman wrestling champion of Europe was a a surprisingly nuanced screen presence

Dame Angela Lansbury was a true genius and stage animal. The world has lost a real presence

She Said stands out and a French drama also shines at the London Film Festival

From the very beginning, Sylvia Kristel’s life thrummed with an undercurrent of impermanence

For all the remarkable events and achievements of his life, Brynner was always content for mythologies to propagate around him

The city of light always looks lovely in films like Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.. but the truth about the French capital is a little different

It isn’t easy getting Charlotte Rampling to let anyone in, be they real people or imagined characters on a script page

The visionary French-Swiss film director and giant of the French New Wave left us breathless with his films. He's how he did it

At the height of his fame, the star of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day called time on his movie career. Why? So he could study philosophy at the Sorbonne

Look past the Irish clichés in Colin Farrell’s Venice award-winner and you’ll find a beautiful, bleakly comic movie

Broad Peak explores the life story of Maciej Berbeka, the Polish mountaineer who returned to the summit of his obsession and, sadly, never left

There was far more to Anna Maria Pierangeli than what cinema-goers saw on the screen and friends saw off it

The big presence at the Venice Film Festival's 90th birthday party was the streaming giant

He baffled and fascinated his critics, but the actor somehow became the absolute personification of insouciant cool