James Dean auction offers unseen items showing new side to star
Nearly 400 items, including personal letters, provide insight into the life of the actor who died at the age of 24
February 2022
The rumba radio station, the DJ … and 110,000 albums looking for a noisy new home
The unique Gladys Palmera archive may cross the Atlantic from Madrid to secure a permanent base
November 2019
Names in the news
The Mona Lisa: even masterpieces should be knocked off their easels
Rebecca Nicholson
Lost in showbiz
Sorry, James Dean, you're better off dead than digitally alive
Reanimating James Dean is a monstrous, legacy-destroying idea
Stuart Heritage
James Dean to be 'resurrected' for new Vietnam war drama
September 2019
California Trip: how Dennis Stock caught the darkness beyond the hippy dream
His iconic portraits of James Dean in a wintry New York won him fame. But it was his travels in the west coast that brought out his true genius, as he captured the cracks in the 60s counterculture
April 2019
Other lives
John Howlett obituary
Other lives: Novelist, scriptwriter and biographer
July 2018
Tab Hunter: how Hollywood's boy next door became a gay icon
The actor, who died on Sunday at the age of 86, kept his sexuality a secret at a time when the industry wasn’t ready for an openly gay heartthrob
April 2018
My favourite film decade
From Godzilla to Some Like it Hot – why the 1950s is my favourite film decade
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
June 2016
'I never knew how much I'd write crying': Peter Bradshaw on film star deaths
Following the loss of actor Anton Yelchin, our movie critic reflects on how reporting celebrity deaths occupies a greater part of his work in the digital age, and what that tells us of society, grief and stardom
April 2016
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn are no Brando and Dean
Letters: In the 50s, manly dress, was a made-to-measure, two- or three-piece suit, complete with collar and tie. Casual dress was a sports jacket or blazer
January 2016
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Macbeth; Sicario; The Walk; Irrational Man; Life; Miss You Already and more – review
Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender are on fire in a searing Macbeth for our times
December 2015
That's me in the picture
That’s me in the picture: Marcus Winslow plays with his cousin, James Dean, at home in Fairmount, Indiana, 1955
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs that stick it to the man
October 2015
Rise of ‘athleisure’ threatens to put jeans out of fashion
Luke Davies on 'mischievous' James Dean and the myth of a broody youth
September 2015
Life review – the iconic made humdrum
Anton Corbijn’s biopic of photographer Dennis Stock hanging out with James Dean is eye-catching but fails to deliver
Life – video review
Peter Bradshaw and Xan Brooks review Anton Corbijn’s biopic of the friendship between film star James Dean and magazine photographer Dennis Stock
James Dean: style lessons, as celebrated in the new film Life
A new film about James Dean’s relationship with photographer, Dennis Stock, is the perfect excuse to revel in the actor’s classic style
