Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
October 2015
The Observer profile
Ben Whishaw: impish star steals the show, even from James Bond
Vanessa Thorpe
He’s everywhere at the moment. His second turn as Q is only one of many high-profile performances, both on screen and stage, for this compelling but self-effacing actor
November 2009
Trailer park
Film trailer: Bright Star
The story of the romance between 19th century poet John Keats and his muse Fanny Brawne
Bright Star
Jane Campion's marvellous ode to Keats is that rare thing – a biopic about a poet that does full justice to its subject, writes Philip French
Bright Star review – Jane Campion’s subtle and measured film about Keats
Jane Campion's film starring Ben Whishaw as the poet and Abbie Cornish as his lover Fanny Brawne is the best of her career
October 2009
Bright Star: at last a good film about poetry
The great poets' lives are infinitely colourful, so why are films about them so dull? Jane Campion's film about Keats is poetic justice
Rebel Angel
Poverty, talent and early death – Keats's story, with a doomed love affair at its heart, represents an ideal of passion and tragic loss. His biographer Andrew Motion is impressed by Jane Campion's attempt in the film Bright Star to bring the poet's life to the big screen
Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'
The New Zealand-born director of The Piano talks to Peter Conrad about her forthcoming film, Bright Star, a study of John Keats's final days
May 2009
Film talk
Cannes film festival: Bright Star rising, Ben Whishaw
Cannes film festival review: Bright Star is Jane Campion at her best
