From Do the Right Thing to Now and Then, Guardian writers pick the film that reminds them most of the warmest months

The Strictly dancers do Sicily. Plus: Line of Duty pals Neil Morrissey and Adrian Dunbar explore their DNA. Here’s what to watch this evening

The director’s newly translated writings reveal how his life as a penniless reporter shaped his hit movies

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of the 1950 film is smartly staged by Leicester’s Curve, starring Ria Jones and Danny Mac

A young woman finds herself on the set of Billy Wilder’s 1978 film Fedora, in Coe’s love letter to the spirit of cinema

Sunset Boulevard showed the damage wrought by fame. Seventy years on, popular culture is more obsessed than ever with being seen

The writer-director’s humane and often surprisingly dark romantic comedy shows him at his finest with two charming leads in Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine

The actor, who died last week, will go down in history as Spartacus, but his powerful performance in Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole should not be overlooked

Her versatility made her a star of Hollywood’s golden age, but Stanwyck’s best characters were always fighters who, like herself, had tasted life’s bitterness

The decade that invented teenagers and giant radioactive lizards also gave birth to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk, the wry satires of Billy Wilder and saw Hitchcock at his finest

Dunkirk spirit falters on the home front, Alain Gomis brings the streets of Kinshasa to sensual life, and a Billy Wilder classic sparkles on 4K

16 May 1959: A funny film with an odd flavour of humour

Concluding our series of Guardian writers’ all-time Academy picks, Benjamin Lee explains why this 1946 film is one of the most vital about alcoholism ever made

A survey of postwar Germany as seen by writers and artists shows the complex nature of attitudes to the defeated nation