Monday, April 10th, 2023
Steven Spielberg used to make us feel good about aliens. To him they were super-intelligent and supremely benign; just a little misunderstood. ET was the kid trapped in his Halloween costume; the more sophisticated extra-terrestrials of Close Encounters of the Third Kind almost godlike, their colourful machines emitting heavenly music, while they invited their human
Saturday, February 6th, 2021
In honour of the ever-greater Christopher Plummer, who has just died
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Richard Burton gives one of his finest performances as a shrink confronting his own demons
Monday, July 27th, 2020
A rewarding return to five early short films by an American master
Monday, July 25th, 2016
As Trainspotting celebrates its 20th anniversary, Danny Boyle and his original cast are preparing a new dose of Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud
Monday, March 21st, 2016
Charlie Kaufman's surreal and sad account of a man's uniquely expressed obsession with mortality
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
It's the centenary of Orson Welles' birth – what better time to recall his first masterpiece
Friday, February 13th, 2015
'My, she was yar'. Grant, Hepburn and Stewart add Golden Age star power to Cukor's effervescent romantic comedy, which pokes fun at all sides in the class war
Saturday, January 31st, 2015
Part moral maze, part house of mirrors, Caché (Hidden) is concerned not only with what you can’t see, but not knowing what it is you’re looking at
Friday, January 2nd, 2015
A hood with aspirations to be a concert pianist is the novel premise for this outstanding French thriller
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
TERENCE Stamp has drolly recalled being over the moon when the Catholic church attacked Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema, in which he starred, on its release in 1968. “It was a very obscure movie – it was going...
Monday, October 27th, 2014
This is my favourite by the French comic genius Jacques Tati, because of its marvellous take on modern architecture and living. Tati used his anachronistic alter-ego, Monsieur Hulot, with his old-world manners and eccentricity, as a counterpoint...
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