Film

A new documentary about the former Arsenal manager reveals a man still in love with the club, but also still heartbroken by it.

WILL SELF on confirmation bias and its role in culture and society.

Romanian director Radu Jude didn't let Covid get in the way of making his latest film. In fact, he turned it to his advantage.

The film adaptation of Nella Larsen's novel is a sumptuous and seductive tale of segregation.

Cinema audiences, used to sweet romantic movies and unchallenging fare, were in for a shock in late 1971 when a raft of violent and controversial films hit British screens

Before he got to Hollywood the filmmaker worked as a journalist in his native Europe. A new book tries to draw the links between his two careers.

WILL SELF on the latest production of the James Bond franchise.

Retired from comics and fired up after Brexit, the great Alan Moore returns with a film he’s finally happy with... possibly because it’s set in his Northampton home town.

The story carefully, and cleverly, portrays domestic abuse, making it one of the more worthwhile Netflix originals of late

The films of Wes Anderson always boast highly detailed retro design. Now fans can put themselves directly into scenes from his new release, The French Dispatch.

JASON SOLOMONS wraps up the best of the London Film Festival.

A lost avant-garde masterpiece, supressed by the Nazis, stuns the London Film Festival and captivates JASON SOLOMONS

Barbara Broccoli on film, family and Daniel Craig's farewell in No Time To Die.

Fancy a trip to the continent now the pandemic is easing? JOHN RAIN looks back at some exotic European locations James Bond has been to, and who he killed there

As The Many Saints Of Newark revisits the world of The Sopranos, RICHARD LUCK remembers the day the screen’s favourite mobster prematurely cut to black…

From France comes a giant leap in tales about life on housing estates.

As his new book of celebrity encounters is launched, TIM WALKER remembers some memorable interviews with those on both sides of the EU divide

The UK arrival of a European broadcasting and filmmaking powerhouse should be welcomed with open arms

It's impossible to think of European cinema without Jean-Paul Belmondo

The Venice Film Festival brings the return of huge movies... but JASON SOLOMONS prefers European masters and a Soho surprise

The pioneering Chinese-American actor who fled early Hollywood for Europe to escape her stereotyping as a tragic Butterfly or treacherous Dragon Lady.

EMMA LUCK on how tax breaks, pandemic management and ambitious studio plans are helping Spain film its way to recovery in the shadow of Covid-10.

It was the show that began RICHARD LUCK’s love of cinema. Now he talks with host Alex Cox about BBC2’s Sunday night cult film strand Moviedrome

Death In Venice made him one of the most recognisable faces on the planet. "That was when the madness started," says Bjorn Andresen today

The daughter of a Tiller Girl from Oldham, Jeanne Moreau came to be considered "the greatest actress in the world"

The film festival defies the pandemic with plenty of touching, flesh and sex

Some surprise choices - and some usual suspects missing - as JASON SOLOMONS selects the 50 greatest European movies

Mads Mikkelsen's drinking comedy Another Round is set for a Hollywood remake after winning the Oscar for Best International Film

In the 1970s, Italian film-makers forgot spaghetti westerns and made Poliziotteschi – violent detective thrillers that echoed the likes of Dirty Harry.., and their own crisis at home Here is a hypothesis for you: if you’re looking for art that explains the mood of times past, you should look not at the acclaimed, serious-minded and […]

From The Ladykillers to The Elephant Man, Jason Solomons celebrates some of the best movies set in London When the pandemic stopped cinema in their tracks and the flow of new movies became an online trickle, many film fans took the time to look back and catch up on classics. In the UK, one of […]

Celebrating a dreamlike cult British take on the American road movie… with German influences We begin in a flat in London. We end on a train to nowhere somewhere in the south west. In between times, a man half-heartedly investigates his brother’s suicide, listens to some very good music, takes a detour with a nice […]

King of TV commercials, Roy Andersson is also the auteur behind a series of bizarre, playful full-length masterpieces.  There are a good many film directors who got their start making commercials. Which would be fine if most of them didn’t make it so blindingly obvious, with their flashy-yet-vacuous imagery and pointlessly fast cutting.  Let’s not […]