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Billy Elliot

January 2023

  • Brian Tufano in the 1990s, the decade in which he came into his own in cinematic work.

    Brian Tufano obituary

    Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

July 2022

  • Fabulously ballsy … Samuel Newby as Billy.

    Billy Elliot the Musical review – the boy who just wants to dance is back in an electric new production

    Nikolai Foster’s new version is more like a play with dance and songs, giving ideas around love and loss, community and isolation, passion and violence room to breathe

October 2019

  • BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL AUSTRALIA 2019-20: Jamie Rogers, River Mardesic, Omar Abiad, Wade Neilse

    Billy Elliot the Musical review – the sweetest spots are still the strongest

    Sydney Lyric theatre
    Dance is the rightful soul of a show that reminds us we’re stronger, and better, when we look out for each other

June 2018

  • Fifteen performances of Billy Elliot in Budapest have been cancelled.

    Billy Elliot musical axes dates in Hungary amid claims it could 'turn children gay’

    Ticket sales fall after media outlets close to PM say show promotes ‘deviant way of life’

May 2018

  • Composite sad films: Man on Fire, Love Actually, Dumbo and Whale Rider

    'Absolutely kills me': you pick your saddest movie scenes

    Our writers picked their peaks of cinematic sadness and you responded with animated elephants, Christmas melancholy and emotional reunions

November 2017

  • 'Filmstars Don't Die in Liverpool' film photocall, Los Angeles, USA - 17 Oct 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sundholm Magnus/action press/REX/Shutterstock (9141941ag) Jamie Bell 'Filmstars Don't Die in Liverpool' film photocall, Los Angeles, USA - 17 Oct 2017

    30 minutes with …
    Jamie Bell on 6 Days: 'I was terrified – they were firing guns at me'

    The one-time child actor talks about box-office disasters and training to play the leader of a crack SAS team in the new thriller 6 Days, about the 1980 Iranian embassy siege

July 2017

  • Max Minghella.

    La La Land meets Isle of Wight in Minghella Jr’s debut as a director

    Max Minghella follows in father Anthony’s footsteps as a screenwriter and director

January 2016

  • Shifting from male to female … Ching-Ying Chien and Akram Khan in Until the Lions.

    Akram Khan talks to Danny Boyle: 'Everything has to serve the body'

    Film and theatre director Danny Boyle discusses inspirations and ambitions with Until the Lions choreographer and dancer Akram Khan

November 2015

  • Romeo Beckham takes centre stage in the ad

    Burberry Christmas campaign celebrates Billy Elliot

    Fashion company recruits celebrities including Romeo Beckham, James Corden and Naomi Campbell to recreate the film’s opening scene

September 2014

  • Billy Elliot the Musical in Easington

    Village shares its Billy Elliot stories at live screening of West End show

  • Zoe Williams

    The battle between capital and labour is still raging on film

    Zoe Williams

June 2004

  • Billy Elliot proves hit on TV too

    The British film industry's campaign for more TV showings for British-made films was given a major fillip yesterday when it was revealed that Billy Elliot was the most popular film screened on terrestrial channels last year.

February 2003

  • Guardian interviews at the BFI
    'Nothing is the hardest thing to do'

    Stephen Daldry has followed up an acclaimed first film, Billy Elliot, with the even more fancied The Hours. The day after The Hours was nominated for nine Oscars, Daldry spoke to the Guardian's theatre critic Michael Billington about the film, awards and his love for theatre

November 2001

  • The trouble with screenwriting

    After writing the hit film Billy Elliot, Lee Hall thought he would have some sway over his next project, Gabriel & Me. Big mistake. He reveals a worrying trend in homegrown films

February 2001

  • London film critics honour Billy Elliot

    Plus: Warner Bros goes global on the Internet; Miramax takes a piece of the Onion

November 2000

  • Billy Elliot heads European Film Awards nominations

    Plus: Paul Thomas Anderson and Adam Sandler collaborate in love story, Julia Roberts confirms mysterious project, Julia Ormond in disaster epic and Mario Van Peebles marks X in Muhammad Ali biopic

October 2000

  • The hit man

  • Blockbuster trumps ballet

  • What next for Billy?

  • 'It is like electricity, like magic'

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