The Haunting at 60: is it still one of the scariest films ever made?
Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg count the slow-burn 1963 horror as one of the greatest of all time but it wasn’t always seen as a classic
April 2021
Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
A new biography ‘unveils’ Philip Roth as a misogynist. Tell me something I don’t know
Hadley Freeman
The campaign to cancel the author is typical of today’s all-or-nothing approach, where if you don’t like everything about a public figure, you can’t like anything
February 2021
Claire Bloom at 90: a phenomenal actor with poise, spirit and steel
Claire Bloom at 90: the star's stage and screen career – in pictures
May 2018
‘I did the best I could with what I had…’: writers on the Philip Roth they knew
A daring explorer of ego is remembered by Robert McCrum, David Hare and Hannah Beckerman
Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral author dies at 85
Chronicler of American politics, Jewishness and male sexual desire was widely regarded as one of greatest novelists of the 20th century
Philip Roth obituary
Poignantly humane novelist set on emancipating American literature from respectability
December 2016
Screen gods, guilt and glamour: actor Claire Bloom on her life in the limelight
She was given her big break by Charlie Chaplin and worked with Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier. Claire Bloom talks about her rise to fame and reading her ex-husband Philip Roth’s work
September 2016
First look review
Max Rose review – scant few laughs in Jerry Lewis' lacklustre last hurrah
The comedy veteran does his best with the material, playing a grieving widower who discovers his wife’s secret affair, but it’s hard to dress up a turkey
October 2015
80,000 Suspects: a clip from the cult British 1960s outbreak thriller – video
A clip from 80,000 Suspects, a tense 1963 thriller about an epidemic sweeping south-west England, directed by British thriller maestro Val Guest
May 2014
Bye-bye ... Philip Roth talks of fame, sex and growing old in last interview
Great US novelist insists he is quitting public life as he reflects on his many literary identities
January 2014
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Claudia Roth Pierpont – review
Roth Unbound by Claudia Roth Pierpont – review
April 2011
Philip French's classic DVD
Limelight
Charlie Chaplin's valedictory movie, Limelight is rarely funny but often deeply affecting, writes Philip French
March 2011
This week's new film events
Bradford Film Festival | The Beat Generation: Hip-Hop On Screen | Tongues On Fire | Rendez-Vous With French Cinema
September 2008
The story of my lives: Philip Roth on why his next book will be his last
As he celebrates his 75th birthday, novelist Philip Roth talks to Robert McCrum about losing friends, living alone and why the next book will be his last