Film noir was first identified at a distance. In 1946, Italian-born French critic Nino Frank coined the term to describe a cycle of coolly cynical
Category: Films
‘We didn’t worry about a few dirty laughs!’ The Carry On women on playing nags, bra-burners and ‘crumpet’
I’m watching a clip from the 1969 film Carry on Camping with Valerie Leon. As in, I’m with Leon, in her house in west London,
Maldoror review – true-crime serial killer procedural induces stomach-turning horror
Fabrice Du Welz began the century as a master of Belgian gothic, riding the wave of Euro-extreme cinema. Calvaire, or The Ordeal, from 2005, was
Queer review – Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama
Queer is a story of lost love and last love and mad-about-the-boy obsession, featuring an excellent performance from Daniel Craig – needy, horny, moody, like
‘We never went down the Aardman route’: how the Brothers Quay rocked the animation world
The Brothers Quay, identical twins, make marvellous, mystifying films in which eerie stop-motion puppets outnumber the few live performers. These films might be set in
The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar spins a gorgeous, fragile tale of life and death
Pedro Almodóvar’s death-struck new melodrama – the great director’s 23rd feature but his first in the English language – is a hothouse Spanish shrub transplanted
Pedro Almodóvar: ‘There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world’
The acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has called for euthanasia to be legalised worldwide. Almodóvar was speaking ahead of the world premiere of his first
‘Let them kick the crap out of the songs’: how we recreated the Beatles to make Backbeat
Iain Softley, director I was working at Granada in the 1980s when I came across a photograph of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe while going
Fitting In review – rare biological condition gets thrown into typical teen movie mix
Older viewers may feel, well, erm, old, to see that this film comes prefaced with a wise statement – handed down as if ’twere written
Fragile Memory review – a personal tribute to a prolific Soviet film-maker
A labour of love, Ihor Ivanko’s documentary pays tribute to his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a prolific Ukrainian cinematographer during the golden days of Soviet cinema.