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March 2020

  • Oh no you don’t! Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter.

    Film blog
    From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films

    It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster

August 2018

  • THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR [US 1975] ROBERT REDFORD

    The Sundance Kid to All Is Lost: Robert Redford's greatest roles – in pictures

    Robert Redford has confirmed his retirement from acting, and we look back at the celebrated American actor’s finest screen moments.

July 2017

  • Tom Hanks in Cast Away.

    Film blog
    All by myself: how the greatest solo film performances worked their magic

    With Anne Hathaway set to star in a film that she will carry on her own, we ask: what can she learn from previous high points of single-actor shows

August 2016

  • The Shallows - 2016No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Columbia Pictures/Courtesy/REX/Shutterstock (5738388h) Blake Lively The Shallows - 2016

    Sharks, ravines and volleyballs – the most perilous one-actor movies ever made

    New film The Shallows has Blake Lively’s surfer circled by a shark for 86 terrifying minutes. Scary. But is it more nerve-racking than Tom Hardy talking about concrete for an hour and a half?

January 2015

  • JC Chandor: 'People generally like superheroes or super-villains – I try to ground characters in the

    JC Chandor on A Most Violent Year: ‘There’s more villainy than some people would like to admit’

    JC Chandor’s new drama A Most Violent Year blurs the lines between criminality and capitalism as Oscar Isaac’s immigrant businessman tries to make it in 80s New York. Xan Brooks talks to the director about his own 15-year struggle to get a film career off the ground

June 2014

  • Venice and Toronto 2014 contenders composite

    Film blog
    Film festival smackdown: we predict how Venice, Toronto and Telluride will split the 2014 world premieres

    The Venice and Toronto film festivals start announcing their lineups soon. So which festival will host which big premieres? Or will sandwich-filler Telluride snaffle the key screenings?

April 2014

  • mandela

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Guy Lodge's DVDs and downloads

    A neatly timed Mandela pic is intelligent but fusty, while glittering performances abound in American Hustle, writes Guy Lodge

March 2014

  • Robert Redford All Is Lost

    Flight MH370 and the solace of survivors' stories

    Geoff Dyer explores our thirst for stories of hope in the face of disaster, from the real life tragedy of flight MH370 to literary fiction and the dramas of Hollywood

January 2014

  • Interview by Laura Barnett

    Another view
    A shipwrecked yachtsman on All Is Lost

    Interview by Laura Barnett

    No sailor worth his salt would set sail without the usual safety equipment the way Robert Redford does, says rescued sailor Tony Bullimore

December 2013

  • Battered and sodden’: Robert Redford fights for survival in JC Chandor’s brutally minimalist  All  i

    All is Lost – review

  • Robert Redford in All Is Lost

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    All Is Lost – review

  • All is Lost director JC Chandor

    Film talk
    All is Lost director JC Chandor: 'The film should feel like one long ribbon' - video interview

  • The Guardian Film Show

    The Guardian film show
    The Guardian Film Show: American Hustle, All is Lost, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Anchorman 2 - video reviews

  • Inside Guardian Weekly
    Inside the 6 December edition

  • Robert Redford: 'Something seems to be coming together'

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