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January 2022

  • Andrea Arnold: ‘I can’t bear seeing people be cruel or violent’

    ‘I kept saying – don’t worry Luma, we see you’: Andrea Arnold on her four years filming a cow

    The Oscar-winning director’s new documentary explores warmth, joy and anger through the eyes of a farmyard animal. She reveals what it taught her about life

October 2019

  • From left: This Is England; Sorry We Missed You; Ray & Liz

    Steve Rose on film
    Beyond Ken Loach: where have the social-realists in cinema gone?

    The director has unleashed his latest broadside against Broken Britain. But with escapist cinema on the rise, can the genre survive?

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

    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

November 2017

  • An Instagram feed from fame … The Florida Project star Bria Vinaite, left, with Brooklynn Prince.

    Film blog
    Cage fights, chat shows, train platforms: the strangest places films have found their stars

    Looking to cast a new film sensation? Then visit a prison, look at Instagram or head to a station. Because that’s where these future stars were hanging out

October 2016

  • Andrea Arnold photographed in Oxleas Woods in London

    Andrea Arnold: ‘I always aim to get under the belly of a place’

    Director Andrea Arnold talks about her new movie, American Honey, which stars Shia LaBeouf and explores the US phenomenon of ‘mag crews’ – rootless young outsiders who rove the midwest selling magazine subscriptions

February 2015

  • Sameena Jabeen Ahmed in Catch Me Daddy

    Catch Me Daddy: Robbie Ryan on capturing Yorkshire's beauty and brutality

    One of the finest cinematographers working in British film talks to us about his latest project, the gripping Yorkshire-Asian noir Catch Me Daddy

November 2014

  • Katie Jarvis in film Fish Tank, in 2009.

    Clip joint
    Clip joint: housing estates

    Join Guardian reader Charles Graham-Dixon and suggest your picks of the best film scenes set on housing estates

February 2010

  • Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis at Evening Standard film awards 2010

    Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis triumph at Evening Standard film awards

    Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis carry off acting prizes as Fish Tank wins best film at the Evening Standard film awards

September 2009

  • Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank

    A vision of hope for Essex

    Sam Tarry

    Sam Tarry: Andrea Arnold's film Fish Tank, which was shot where I grew up, carries a social message that bears repeating

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    Andrea Arnold's latest offering is a bleak glimpse of life on a housing estate. Still, hope – and the fine performances – shine through, says Philip French

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    • Trailer park
      Film trailer: Fish Tank

    • Katie Jarvis – from the school steps to the red carpet

August 2009

  • Andrea Arnold, London, 2009

    Real life in the Fish Tank

    With Red Road, and her acclaimed new film, Fish Tank, the Oscar and Cannes winner is fast becoming one of Britain's most respected directors. She talksabout her time as a Top of the Pops dancer, the lack of female film-makers, and why her latest film, though brutally unsentimental, made her cry

May 2009

  • Fish Tank (2009)

    Cannes film festival review: Fish Tank hooks you in

  • Fish Tank (2009)

    How row set in train life-changing offer for Fish Tank star

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