Film

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

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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

King Vidor’s film helped put Labour into government

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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?

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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

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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