The forgotten brilliance of Britain’s postwar cinema
As a new film season at the BFI shows, we can read the character of a battered nation and its…
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The very British brutality of Kind Hearts and Coronets
The 1949 inspiration for How to Make a Killing remains a tantalising fantasy of class war
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Laura Mulvey returns to the male gaze
The phrase coined 50 years ago by the filmmaker and theorist has itself been subject to forceful scrutiny
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Celine Song’s Materialists makes a business of love
The question posed by Song’s latest film is far more interesting than its schmaltzy answer.
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In Andor’s universe, real history doesn’t work like the movies
The Star Wars spin-off series pieces together a world far more familiar to our own.
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The Prince Charles Cinema and the death of the West End
No city has as flagrant a disregard for its own culture as London.
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Bridget Jones’s hollow feminism
The novels portrayed the working woman of the Nineties as a hot mess. By laughing at her, we laughed at…
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About Dry Grasses is quintessential slow cinema
This Turkish film is deeply challenging, even boring at times. But it is pretty much a masterpiece.
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Robbie Robertson’s sounds of America
In the Sixties, the Canadian musician defined Americana. On his score for Killers of the Flower Moon, he blew it…
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The Scala was a place with no boundaries, our teenage sanctuary
A film about the cult all-night cinema and a memoir by my friend take me back: how motivated we all…
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Killers of the Flower Moon is Martin Scorsese at his best
This late, great Western is a powerful study of greed, betrayal and evil.
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Why Barbenheimer won’t save cinema
July’s blockbusters made box office records – but the industry’s crisis is only deepening.
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How Jurassic Park invented the CGI blockbuster
With Jurassic Park, which turns 30 this month, Steven Spielberg proved that imagination did not need to be limited by what was…
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Remembering Glenda Jackson – the unstarry star of cinema and politics
The Oscar-winning actor and Labour firebrand, who has died aged 87, had an extraordinary career. In person, she was defiantly,…
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The erotic thriller has lost its sex appeal
Recent attempts to revive the genre, from Netflix’s Obsession to Paramount’s Fatal Attraction, are neither erotic nor thrilling.
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A Thousand and One understands the effects of gentrification
In this sensitive debut about a mother who steals her son from care, AV Rockwell maps the contours of a…
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The rise of Mia Goth mania
In the horror films Pearl and Infinity Pool, the 29-year-old actor delivers two pleasingly unhinged performances.
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How Jean-Luc Godard changed cinema
The pioneering French New Wave director has died at the age of 91. It is impossible to overestimate the breadth,…
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From Top Gun to Jurassic World: blockbuster cinema is back!
The films of the summer season used to seem formulaic and tedious. This year, everything has changed.
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How Leon Vitali became Stanley Kubrick’s representative on earth
The Filmworker uncovers the less than glamorous life of a filmmaker’s right-hand man.
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