Film

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

The remarkable Alice Rohrwacher on buried treasure and directing without a safety net

The film festival is now about making deals, but in its early days it was about making stars, as young Europeans mixed with Hollywood’s elite

He arrived in America pretending to be the son of an Austrian count but became one of early cinema’s most adventurous and meticulous directors

Fred Zinnemann’s classic Western is full of tired, scared, cynical people. In that, it is like a Godard or a Cassavetes

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

This could be a turning point in how the country treats questionable men

Why are we fascinated by talking horses and chatty cats in fiction?

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

There was always something vulnerable about her, something half-said, the rest buried somewhere deep and inaccessible

Is crying such a bad thing? I’ve been doing a lot of it recently, for reasons regular readers will be aware of, and it never ceases to help

His great contemporaries are gone, but the director is still shaking his fists – and miraculously, his films are getting even better