Film

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

Quo Vadis is fun but Rossellini's neorealism showed us Rome as it was

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

The Third Man turns 75

The Italian will be forever remembered for a wordless walk in a Viennese cemetery

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

Both Welles and Frank Capra were masters of portraying the crooked side of the American Dream

You Are Not Alone, a powerful new documentary, follows the horrific attack that gripped Spain

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

Joe gave women agency, even if they were wearing an apron; even if they were frightened about losing a man

The actor – reliably excellent as the singer’s father, Mitch, in Back to Black – on addiction, social media rage and antisemitism

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

One shot tells you everything about this immortal cinematographer

The main takeaway I took from Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is different from the one the director intended

Over seven weeks in Almería Lennon worked tirelessly on arguably his greatest, and most personal, Beatles composition, Strawberry Fields Forever