As a major BFI retrospective celebrates the centenary of Fellini’s birth, we explore some of the themes that made his work such a dazzling highpoint in 20th-century art cinema, here with Philip Kemp on the director’s close family of collaborators.
An immigrant ragman’s son who became the last of Hollywood’s golden age male stars, Douglas – who has died aged 103 – stamped his mark on the screen with a combustive determination and magnetism, writes Lee Server.
A fearless journalist investigates the famine in Ukraine during WWII in this overstretched but nobly intentioned drama directed by Agnieszka Holland, writes Philip Kemp.
Singletons Jack Quaid and Alice Erskine team up to be each other’s wedding dates in a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy that offers only the most predictable of pleasures, writes Violet Lucca.
In Adam Egypt Mortimer’s smart thriller, Miles Robbins plays a traumatised young man and Patrick Schwarzenegger his sadistic, imaginary childhood friend, writes Lou Thomas.
Prize speculation helps to sell tickets, but with a glut of quality films released just in time to qualify for the big awards, the chances of cashing in diminish, writes Charles Gant.
This remarkable film sees a family of have-nots insinuate themselves into a wealthy family’s elegant mansion, whose very structure conceals secrets and illustrates the brutality of the class divide, writes Trevor Johnston.