Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny and James Dean’s jeans: a day inside the Warner Bros top-secret archive
To celebrate 100 years, the studio is letting reporters into a protected vault of movie treasures. Just don’t try and find it on Google maps
November 2022
Casablanca at 80: a golden age classic that remains impossible to resist
The involving and affecting romantic thriller is a sterling example of collaboration and how the studio system can often excel
August 2020
Filmmakers told to ditch sex scenes to protect actors from coronavirus
Updated guidance suggests directors take inspiration from classic films made when sex on screen was prohibited
March 2020
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
April 2019
Cinematic smackers: the most significant kisses in film history
From rapture in Casablanca to a Corleone death sentence, here are the movies’ key lip-locks ahead of international kissing day
February 2019
The nine greatest best picture winners at the Oscars
As the awards celebrate their ninth decade, we look back on the times the Academy got it right when it came to the biggest prize
January 2018
From the Guardian archive
Casablanca reviewed: 'a lively film, bulging with acting talent' – archive, 1943
15 January 1943 Humphrey Bogart stars as an American café owner in the politically entangled town of Casablanca
November 2016
A complacent Hollywood ignored rightwing radicalism – now movies need to tell the truth
Paul Mason
Blockbuster superheroes and cartoons won’t save us – we need real stories on screen
May 2016
Casablanca actor Madeleine LeBeau dies in Spain aged 92
French film star fled Nazis with husband Marcel Dalio, who co-starred with her in famous 1942 movie set in occupied Morocco
February 2016
We’ll always have Leicester (as Bogart nearly said to Bergman)
Peter Bradshaw
Never mind Jane Austen and her sensitive romantic dialogue. My favourite love scenes are where ordinary lines are drenched in love – and part of an affair
December 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs that stick it to the man
Whether about rebels or rebellious in style, lyrics or subject, the only request here is to suggest songs that challenge authority in the workplace or beyond
July 2015
Cinema Ritrovato: Hudson, Bergman, Keaton – a feast of film under Italian skies
Film blog
Don't look away now: the crucial movie moments you can't afford to miss
January 2015
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Wizard of Oz is most influential Hollywood film
Judy Garland’s 1939 musical tops academic study’s list of films of cultural significance, with Star Wars in second and Psycho in third
December 2014
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs about leaving or being left behind
Passionate endings, fond farewells, sad separations or stimulating solitude, name songs that capture or reflect on a moment when two or more people are parted, says Peter Kimpton
September 2014
The 10 best ...
The 10 best quotable films
… to mark the return of Withnail and I to the big screen. By Kathryn Bromwich
July 2014
Buy it, Sam: Casablanca piano goes up for auction
The piano from Rick's Cafe in the classic romance Casablanca will be auctioned at Bonhams this autumn
April 2013
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
Blood On Satan's Claw | Casablanca | Louie: The Complete First Season | Knightriders | George And Mildred: The Complete Series
March 2013
What makes a great screenplay?
From Casablanca to The Killing – the elements of a great script are essentially the same. John Yorke – reveals how and why the best screenwriting works
December 2012
Casablanca sequel: here's looking at you, kid
Observer editorial: Do we really need to know what became of Rick and Ilsa and their son?
