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Frank Capra

March 2024

  • Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert on the set of It Happened One Night (1934).

    Sure, Frank Capra made great movies – but he relied on Robert Riskin’s brilliant scripts

    Letters: Riskin’s magic makes It Happened One Night – and many of the director’s ‘Capra-corn’ classics, writes Bruce Henstell

February 2024

  • Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night.

    It Happened One Night at 90: the greatest romantic comedy ever made?

    Frank Capra’s 1934 charmer helped to set the foundation for the genre with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert bickering and flirting their way into film history

January 2024

  • US Marines at the Top Gun: Maverick premiere in 2022.

    In 1924, cinema was hailed as an agent of world peace. Has it failed?

    A century ago, the new artform was welcomed as an harbinger of universal harmony. Although it’s been pressed into service for darker aims since, some of that utopian spirit survives

January 2022

  • Mr Smith Goes to Washington.

    Cultural prescription
    Vote with your feet: film, music, art and more to engage you politically

    From the heroic Mr Smith using political institutions to clear his name to Naomi Klein’s exposé of the sharp end of globalisation, our critics choose political cultural works that inspire

December 2021

  • It’s a Wonderful Life

    Books and films censored under Franco still circulating in Spain

    Dictator who died in 1975 stamped out mention of Spanish civil war, sexuality and anti-Catholic views

October 2021

  • Arsenic and Old LAce

    Cultural prescription
    Want horror for Halloween? Critics pick music, books, games and more to help

    From a creepy Hollywood comedy to trick or treat for gamers, Guardian critics suggest their cultural classics

November 2020

  • James Stewart with Karolyn Grimes in Frank Capra’s 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life.

    Why do artists like the Pogues and Frank Capra have a special Christmas pedestal?

    Rick Burin
    Fairytale of New York and It’s a Wonderful Life evoke a unique and persistent magic, says writer Rick Burin

July 2019

  • Paul McCartney, and James Stewart with Donna Reed in It’s A Wonderful Life.

    Paul McCartney writes first musical, stage version of It's a Wonderful Life

    Former Beatle is to write songs for Frank Capra’s ‘universal story’, working with Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot

January 2019

  • Barbara Stanwyck c1945.

    From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention

    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

December 2018

  • It’s a Wonderful Life.

    It’s a Wonderful Life review – Capra's Christmas cracker shines anew

    A crisis in housing, a racist ruling class and a struggle against a hideous ego-plutocrat who names everything after himself – this 1946 classic still resonates

January 2018

  • Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time?

    Who is the best Oscar-winning director of all time?

    Capra? Coppola? Bigelow? Our chief film critic crowns one of five nominees the Oscar of Oscars champion – and reveals who you picked as your winner

September 2017

  • Castell Dolbadarn, Llanberis, Gwynedd

    Brief letters
    Post-Brexit passport-free access to language and culture

    Brief letters: Wales | Specs scenes | Obscure ingredients | Hyperemesis gravidarum | Theresa May

February 2016

  • 2015, BROOKLYN<br>DOMHNALL GLEESON & SAOIRSE RONAN Character(s): Jim Farrell, Eilis Lacey Film 'BROOKLYN' (2015) Directed By JOHN CROWLEY 26 January 2015 SAM49557 Allstar/LIONSGATE (IRL/UK/CAN 2015) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of LIONSGATE and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To LIONSGATE is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Entertainment Orientation Landscape half body, Halbportrait

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    Brooklyn; James White; Suffragette; He Named Me Malala; The Intern; Burnt; It Happened One Night – review

    Saoirse Ronan shines in a fairytale of New York, Bradley Cooper lays it on a plate – and why the unfancied James White deserves a second look

December 2014

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    Film blog
    It’s a Wonderful Life: my most overrated Christmas film

    Frank Capra’s classic movie is a celebration of picket-fence smugness. Boring Bedford Falls would have been better had George Bailey never lived, writes Andrew Gilchrist

March 2014

  • Five Came Back review – great Hollywood directors and the second world war

    Mark Harris's study of the interwoven war careers of Ford, Wyler, Capra, Stevens and Huston impresses Philip French

October 2013

  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

    Film blog
    Top 10 family movies

    Time for some wholesome fun – what are the best movies for the whole family to enjoy? From Bambi to Spirited Away, here are the Guardian and Observer critics' top 10

November 2011

  • It's a Wonderful Life.

    It's a Wonderful Life tops favourite Christmas film poll

    Frank Capra's 1946 classic starring James Stewart is voted the nation's favourite festive film … along with Die Hard

June 2011

  • US Actor Peter Falk dies aged 83

    Peter Falk obituary

    US actor whose success as the scruffy TV detective Columbo was complemented by a wide range of stage and screen roles

December 2010

  • Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life

    Frank Capra at the BFI - review

  • A Charlie Brown Christmas

    Christmas film seasons and special screenings

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