The 1953 romantic comedy may lack heft but the Oscar-winner’s charming lead turn makes it an escape worth taking again When Roman Holiday was released, 70 summers ago, the monarchy was having a fashionable moment. Two months before, the world had watch...
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The French star of Blue Is the Warmest Colour and new film Passages talks *** scenes, avoiding Hollywood and eating Toblerones in Jane Birkin’s bathFor Adèle Exarchopoulos, her first taste of film stardom was the literal taste of Toblerone. Then 13 yea...
On the eve of the actor’s 80th birthday, delve into his epic back catalogue, which runs the gamut from Taxi Driver and Meet the Parents to Falling in LoveA brief flurry of tabloid interest surged around Robert De Niro a few months ago, after the news t...
The notoriously overpriced biopic, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, carried an infamous legacy but is it any good?As I prepared to write on the 60th anniversary of Cleopatra, I asked a few friends and relatives if they had ever seen it. So...
Coverage of this year’s Cannes premieres has been dominated by how many minutes attendees are on their feet but the results are often meaninglessArt isn’t maths, on that we can all agree: there’s no scientific way to quantify its ambitions or its succe...
Guilty of endlessly checking the menu and flipping channels? Stop and commit to a show that catches your eye, don’t binge and be cautious when sharing your streaming accountWatching television used to be relatively simple: there was a fixed schedule of...
The Italian director’s knotty drama remains a provocation, a film filled with lyrical beauty but also repulsive crueltyRevisiting films on the occasion of major anniversaries can be a disorienting reminder of time’s too-swift passage: that film is now ...
While Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell continue to rack up awards, as we edge towards the Oscars, there are other actors who deserve to be includedFor those who follow the annual sport and silliness of the Oscar race, this year’s competition has been d...
David Lean’s epic is still an astonishing visual achievement but there are far richer and darker themes at playGrowing up in the 90s as a young child who was really into film, I was told two things about Lawrence of Arabia by my elders, usually in tand...
From Nosferatu to A Nightmare on Elm Street, LGBTQ+ viewers have long detected a ***** undertone in many horror films. Now the genre is bringing its *** subtext to the surfaceAustralian director Jennifer Kent didn’t set out to make a ***** classic when...