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The most remarkable thing about the first days after Alan died was the number of actors, poets, musicians, playwrights and directors who wanted to express […]

Three weeks after Ben Roberts began a new job as chief executive of the British Film Institute – so becoming one of the most powerful […]

I was viscerally spellbound – hairs on end, eyes wide, mouth agog – by Macedonian-Australian writer/director Goran Stolevski’s feature film debut: a shockingly great horror […]

In a poetic piece made for the BBC in 1998 about the work of British artist Richard Devereux, David Bowie confronted “a deep and formidable […]

When French soldiers tried to colonise the west African kingdom of Dahomey, they encountered a foe unlike any they had faced before. The Agojie were […]

Costa-Gavras’s children were his greatest production; weaned on the classics, schooled in the arthouse. The renowned Greek director forbade trash entertainment and would instead treat […]

“Write what you know” is one of the hoariest adages around, and for film-makers it means making movies about a subject of endless fascination and […]

To crudely summarise how the My Brother the Devil director Sally El Hosaini has chosen to adapt the story of Syrian refugee turned Olympic swimmer […]

The “love letter to the movies” is a tricky genre, teetering on maudlin industry indulgence; my own rule is that any film, on any subject, […]