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Alan Bates

June 2018

  • King of Hearts - film still

    King of Hearts review – boisterously Rabelaisian anti-war satire

    Set during the first world war, Philippe de Broca’s drama imagines a French town booby-trapped by fleeing German forces

July 2016

  • ‘Indecently chiselled’: Jeremy Irvine (foreground) in Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Stonewall; Holding the Man; Mapplethorpe; Batman v Superman; Hardcore Henry; A Kind of Loving; Film4 downloads – review

    Queer cinema exposes a soft centre, caped crusaders meet in a cinematic Spaghetti Junction and Film4 releases a fine haul
  • A Kind of Loving (1962 film)

    A Kind of Loving: Alan Bates in a clip from John Schlesinger's classic – video

    An exclusive clip from one of the seminal kitchen sink dramas of post-war British cinema
  • Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film of The Silence of the Lambs.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about deranged killers

    From Norman Bates to Hannibal Lecter, murderous bogeymen exercise an enduring grip on readers’ imaginations. These are some of the best, and most frightening

March 2016

  • 'Annie' at the Palace Theatre, Victoria, London - 01 Sep 1998<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Alastair Muir/REX (765280a) 'Annie' the musical 'Annie' at the Palace Theatre, Victoria, London - 01 Sep 1998

    Martin Charnin: he wrote Annie, but he is forever a Jet

    The legendary lyricist and director has had the opposite of a hard-knock life in theatre, starting in West Side Story and writing one of the biggest musicals

January 2016

  • Brian Bedford in 1966.

    Brian Bedford obituary

  • Still from Mad Max: Fury Road

    Critics' Choice awards: Mad Max: Fury Road sweeps the ceremony

September 2015

  • Joanna Vanderham as Marian in the BBC adaptation of The Go-Between

    My highlight
    My highlight: The Go-Between by Jenny Turner

    Less arty than the 1971 film, the new BBC version lets the tensions within LP Hartley’s novel emerge: land, money, war and revolution as well as sex

August 2015

  • Jack Gold directing John Hurt, right, in The Naked Servant Civil Servant, 1975.

    Jack Gold obituary

    Award-winning film and TV director known for Aces High and The Naked Civil Servant

June 2015

  • John Bate

    Other lives
    John Bate obituary

    Other lives: Poet and librarian whose home became a hub for Catholic thinkers

April 2015

  • FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (2015)

    Far from the Madding Crowd – does the film live up to Hardy's novel?

    Far from the Madding Crowd might be Hardy’s sunniest novel, but it is also subversive and unsettling. Thomas Vinterberg’s new film adaptation creates a Bathsheba for the modern audience, but does it capture the book’s strangeness and erotic energy?

March 2015

  • Angry young man … Kenneth Haigh (right) as Jimmy Porter, with Helena Hughes, Alan Bates and Mary Ure

    Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language

    Jimmy Porter takes on class, religion, politics and the press in Osborne’s classic 1956 play – but its real revolution lay in its thrilling linguistic exuberance
  • X+Y

    This week's new films
    X+Y, Suite Française, Run All Night: this week’s new films

    X+Y | Suite Française | Run All Night | Lou! | My Name Is Salt | Far From The Madding Crowd | Elle L’Adore

    • What you should watch this week
      Why Far From the Madding Crowd is the one film you should watch this week - video

    • Far from the Madding Crowd review – seductive swordplay, psychedelic cows

    • Film blog
      Far From The Madding Crowd: still seductive and shocking

February 2015

  • 'A Challenge for Robin Hood' film stills - 1967

    Barrie Ingham obituary

    Stage and screen actor versed in Shakespeare, musical theatre and television

January 2015

  • Boyhood

    Golden Globe Awards 2015 winners: full list

  • Rosamund Pike in Vera Wang a tthe Golden Globes.

    2015 Golden Globes: full list of nominations

November 2014

  • liam neeson

    30 minutes with …
    Liam Neeson: ‘I've never been more nervous than when singing in front of Julie Andrews’

    Stuart Heritage: Liam Neeson on his amateur boxing glories, acting into his 90s and leaving voicemail messages on his son’s phone
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