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Alan Rickman

June 2024

  • Arifa Akbar

    If you want to know how free a society is, look at what’s happening in its theatres

    Arifa Akbar
    Political art helps to debate and confront the challenges in our lives. It is also a record we must return to again and again, says Guardian theatre critic Arifa Akbar

May 2023

  • Dexter Fletcher

    The reader interview
    Dexter Fletcher: ‘I sat on Diana Dors’s knee and she said: “Aren’t you lovely!”’

    The actor and director on getting shouted at by Ken Russell, keeping it real for Elton John and when Jodie Foster made a moustache out of his hair

October 2022

  • Tom Burke leaning on a weathered wall

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Tom Burke: ‘Alan Rickman was like family, really’

  • 1988, DIE HARD<br>ALAN RICKMAN Character(s): Hans Gruber Film 'DIE HARD' (1988) Directed By JOHN MCTIERNAN 12 July 1988 AFA2478 Allstar/20TH CENTURY FOX (USA 1988) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of 20TH CENTURY FOX and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To 20TH CENTURY FOX is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries review – great actor, keen shopper, sharp wit

  • Alan Rickman

    Book of the day
    Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries review – inside the actor’s world

  • Kevin Smith

    The reader interview
    Kevin Smith: ‘How are you going to get laid if you look like an old person?’

September 2022

  • Iconic villain … as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

    ‘He got our tortoise a part in Taming of the Shrew’: Alan Rickman remembered by Emma Thompson, Eddie Izzard and more

  • Alan Rickman in 2011.

    Alan Rickman’s diaries: ‘Ang seems nervous. He probably needs a hug. Like Hugh Grant’

  • Alan Rickman, the film critic.

    ‘An unbelievable Die Hard rip-off’: two decades of Alan Rickman’s withering film reviews

  • Alan Rickman portrait

    Alan Rickman’s secret showbiz diaries: the late actor on Harry Potter, politics and what he really thought of his co-stars

August 2022

  • Die Hard

    From Die Hard to The Raid: Guardian writers on their favourite action movies

    As Brad Pitt’s new thriller Bullet Train arrives in cinemas, Guardian writers have picked their most exciting action films of all time

October 2021

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone review – 20 years on, it’s a nostalgic spectacular

    The first film in the franchise is re-released into a very different world – but it’s as entertaining and exhilarating as ever

June 2021

  • 1991, ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES<br>KEVIN COSTNER Character(s): Robin Hood Film ‘ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES’ (1991) Directed By KEVIN REYNOLDS 14 June 1991 CTL38978 Allstar/WARNER BROS. (USA 1991) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves at 30: a joyless hit that should stay in the 90s

    Kevin Costner made for a charmless and embarrassingly miscast local legend in a dark and chaotic mess that audiences in 1991 adored

November 2020

  • Alan Rickman, who died in 2016.

    Alan Rickman's 27 volumes of diaries to be published as one book

    The Diaries of Alan Rickman, written by the actor until his death with the intention of one day publishing them, will be released in autumn 2022

August 2020

  • Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) in the RSC’s 1992 production at the Barbican in London.

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Method and madness: Branagh, Rylance and Rickman as Hamlet – in pictures

    In a new series, we delve into Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s amazing archive of stage photos. This week: Hamlet, as played by actors including Damian Lewis, Paapa Essiedu and Michelle Terry

March 2020

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    I grew up watching disaster movies. Here’s what I’ve learned

    Hadley Freeman
    From Armageddon to Outbreak, there’s something reassuring about their predictability, now more than ever

August 2019

  • Tom Burke, 2019

    'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke

    The actor is best known as the TV detective Strike, but there’s something about his deeply troubling lead film role in The Souvenir that suits him down to the ground

February 2019

  • Alan Rickman in Tango at the End of Winter, 1991, Piccadilly Theatre, London © Ivan Kyncl. Courtesy of the V&amp;A, London

    Views of the gods: Alan Rickman, Cate Blanchett and more theatre legends – in pictures

    Ivan Kyncl: In the Minute, an exhibition celebrating the atmospheric work of the Czech-born theatre photographer, is at the V&A in London until 7 July

January 2019

  • Richard E Grant wrote to Barbra Streisand when he was a boy

    Shortcuts
    Letters from the teenage fan club

    Richard E Grant was 14 when he invited Barbra Streisand to stay with his family in Africa. His is just one of many pieces of fanmail written by people who went on to become famous

November 2018

  • DIE HARD, 1988<br>BRUCE WILLIS & BONNIE BEDELIA Film 'DIE HARD' (1988) Directed By JOHN MCTIERNAN 15 July 1988

    Die Hard review – Bruce Willis Christmas classic is still a blast

    The deafening shootouts, the uproarious explosions and the killer catchphrase remain gloriously intact as the festive face-off gets a 30th anniversary rerelease
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