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Friday, 30 December, 2022

Film
How Akira Kurosawa conquered the west — and gave back
A BFI season celebrates a master film-maker who drew on European and American culture as well as Japanese traditions
Tuesday, 13 September, 2022

ObituaryJean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard, film-maker, 1930-2022
The director revolutionised cinema with New Wave films such as ‘Breathless’
Tuesday, 5 April, 2022

Film
Nosferatu at 100: why the vampire movie masterpiece still has bite
FW Murnau’s daylight horror made its mark with countless genre tropes that stalk the screen to this day
Friday, 18 March, 2022

ObituaryFilm
William Hurt, actor, 1950-2022
A brooding star who brought a sombre glitter to the side-currents of mainstream Hollywood
Wednesday, 12 January, 2022

Theatre
A critic plays King Lear: ‘Enough dishing it out, it’s time to face the music myself’
After almost 50 years of judging others, former FT film critic Nigel Andrews is preparing for the role of a lifetime — with some trepidation
Friday, 7 January, 2022

ObituaryFilm
Sidney Poitier, actor, 1927-2022
Oscar-winner was a Hollywood icon who broke racial barriers in the film industry
Thursday, 30 December, 2021

Film
Singin’ in the Rain remembered by its makers — and still reignin’ 70 years on
Nigel Andrews revisits his interviews with Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen and Debbie Reynolds to tell the story of how they created Hollywood’s most enduring musical
Tuesday, 21 September, 2021

Film
Still blown away by Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece was released 20 years ago. The FT’s former film critic was smitten then — and is now
Thursday, 22 July, 2021

Film
Bette Davis at the BFI — the eyes have it
Hollywood’s queen of mean remains so magnetic, you barely notice her co-star drones — as an upcoming film season reminds us
Tuesday, 11 May, 2021

Film
Robert Altman: America’s master of nutty radicalism
A season at the BFI Southbank and re-release of ‘Nashville’ offers the chance to rediscover the films of a director who remade cinema
Saturday, 6 February, 2021

Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer: star of stage and screen
Spellbinding actor who could swagger while standing still shot to fame for a role he claimed to despise
Monday, 25 January, 2021

Film
The Truman show: Capote and the movies
He wrote and inspired some memorable films and is the subject of a new bio-doc — but what is his cinematic legacy?
Monday, 2 November, 2020

Film
Godard’s Breathless at 60 — is it any kind of masterpiece?
Nigel Andrews analyses the enduring appeal and influence of the movie that launched the New Wave
Saturday, 31 October, 2020

ObituarySean Connery
Sean Connery, actor, 1930-2020
Catapulted to fame as the first James Bond, he became one of the UK’s most durable stars
Sunday, 26 July, 2020

ObituaryFilm
Olivia de Havilland, actress, 1916-2020
‘Gone with the Wind’ star of cinema’s ‘Golden Age’ who challenged Hollywood’s studio system
Friday, 5 June, 2020

Film
Past dramas take on new meaning in a cabin-fevered time
‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ and ‘Gogglebox’ seem like a pre-echo of lockdown living
Friday, 3 April, 2020

Film
The five best mass-infection movies — and two new odes to endurance
War films 1917 and the upcoming Painted Bird are the latest entries in a sub-genre driven by relentless adversity and survival
Monday, 9 March, 2020

ObituaryMax von Sydow
Max von Sydow, actor, 1929-2020
Master of high miserabilism who starred in ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Seventh Seal’
Friday, 6 March, 2020

Film
John Boorman: hits, myths and borrowed tales
The brilliance of the director’s early work reflects western cinema’s genius for refashioning primal stories and pulp fiction
Friday, 7 February, 2020

Film
From Psycho to Parasite: why the basement is cinema’s scariest location
Ever since I was knee-high to Nosferatu, I have loved steps and stairs on screen
Thursday, 6 February, 2020

ObituaryKirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas, Hollywood actor, 1916—2020
For a postwar movie generation Kirk Douglas was the definition of ‘macho’
Thursday, 23 January, 2020

ObituaryTerry Jones
Terry Jones, actor, writer and director, 1942-2020
The versatile Monty Python star who sided with the underdog
Friday, 17 January, 2020

Film
Federico Fellini at 100 and the myth of realism
Nigel Andrews on how the Italian auteur abandoned neorealism for something looser and more fantastical
Monday, 23 December, 2019

Film
Best films of 2019
FT film critic Nigel Andrews selects his favourites, from the voluptuous crime-athon ‘The Irishman’ to the harrowing war documentary ‘For Sama’
Monday, 23 December, 2019

ReviewFilm
Spies in Disguise — Will Smith and Tom Holland save the planet, if not the movie
Fun though it may be, this collection of out-takes is never quite the sum of its parts