Tag: Film

If film is to survive, we must stop lamenting the loss of a golden era

The year's best movies explored masculinity, old age, and even geology and philosophy

Humphrey Jennings was a unique filmmaker whose personal and innovative work captured the spirit of the home front. So why isn’t he a household name?

Lars von Trier’s behaviour at Cannes overshadowed his powerful new film, argues Matthew Sweet, who finds contemporary depictions of dystopia harsher than those of the last century

In writing Howl, Allen Ginsberg was following poetic tradition rather than establishing it. Yet no one has ever done anything quite like it

Writer-director Joanna Hogg’s second feature will try the patience of its audience. And it shows how British film-making has lost its way

The controversial Danish film director Lars von Trier rarely gives interviews, but he allowed me into his remote bunker

I went to see a franchise horror movie hoping for mind-emptying mayhem. What I got was a shoddy dig at US domestic politics

Six things to do this month

Too many opera directors display contempt for audiences and composers in their eccentric adaptations. We need more powerful intendants

Charles Drazin puts Britain's current film renaissance into historical perspective

The novel, the stage play and screenplay allow the writer sharply differing levels of artistic control over the work. David Lodge, who has had experience of all three, describes some of the pleasures and frustrations of adapting a play and…