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March 2024

  • Gary Oldman as Cary Grant in North by Northwest

    Stars in disguise: behind the scenes with Gary Oldman, Jennifer Lopez and Jerry Lewis – in pictures

    Gary Oldman as Cary Grant, J-Lo doing the tango … The photographs of Funny Bones director Peter Chelsom capture his actors in a different light

February 2023

  • Robert De Niro in The King of Comedy.

    The King of Comedy at 40: Martin Scorsese’s painful ode to the wannabe

    In the dark, dry comedy, Robert De Niro plays a scheming comedian whose mediocrity doesn’t dampen his ambition

August 2022

  • Leslie Grace as Batgirl in the cancelled DC Comics film.

    The Batgirl you’ll never see: why some films disappear for ever

  • Still in Davy Jones’ locker … Empires of the Deep.

    3D mermaids, CobraGator and Louis CK: the never-released films Batgirl will join in Hollywood’s vault of shame

February 2022

  • Jerry Lewis.

    Jerry Lewis co-stars accuse late star of sexual abuse

    Vanity Fair investigation finds a string of fellow actors who describe harassment and assaults in the 60s when Lewis was at the height of his fame

April 2018

  • Standup films, clockwise from bottom left: Man on the Moon, Obvious Child, The King of Comedy, Festival, Funny Bones.

    The best films about standup: from King of Comedy to Funny Bones

    As Maxine Peake takes the mic to play a club comic in Funny Cow, here are five movies that capture the lacerating, soul-baring world of live comedy

March 2018

  • Jerry Lewis, Roger Moore, Sridevi

    Roger Moore, Jerry Lewis and Sridevi remembered at Oscars 2018 ceremony

    The Academy Awards made its annual tribute to the luminaries of the film industry who are no longer with us

September 2017

  • A still from the film Superman, with CHRISTOPHER REEVE as the titular man of steel.

    Film blog
    New edits and director's cuts: are they lost gems or simply second best?

    A three-hour extended cut of Superman: The Movie is being released for the first time, but can alternate versions of classics ever be more than poor relations?
  • There’s comedy and there’s acting, but there’s no ‘comedy acting’ … Jerry Lewis, snapped by Peter Chelsom at St Anne’s pier.

    'He embraced the fish, the chips – all of it': my time with Jerry Lewis in Blackpool

    The late comedy star came to the seaside town in the 90s to star in my film Funny Bones. Working with him was a masterclass in comic acting – and in charm
  • THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (US1963) JERRY LEWIS PICTURE FROM THE RONALD GRANT ARCHIVE MAD SCIENTIST

    Martin Scorsese on Jerry Lewis: 'It was like watching a virtuoso pianist at the keyboard'

    He was the anarchic funnyman who went from comedies with Dean Martin to inspired cinematic brilliance with The Nutty Professor. Martin Scorsese pays tribute to his King of Comedy star
  • (FILE) Comedian Jerry Lewis Dies At 91 Martin And Lewis<br>FILE - 20 AUGUST 2017: Comedian Jerry Lewis, 91, has died. American actor and singer Dean Martin (1917 - 1995, left) with his screen partner, comedian Jerry Lewis, circa 1955. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

    Film blog
    Jerry Lewis: the knockabout clown with a dark and melancholy inner life

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    Life and times of Jerry Lewis, the 'king of comedy' – video obituary

  • Jerry Lewis, left, with long-time collaborator Dean Martin.

    Film blog
    Jerry Lewis: from Cinderfella to King of Comedy – a career in clips

  • Jerry Lewis, right, with Dean Martin: in their double act, Martin took the role of worldly philanderer, and Lewis was the gormless hanger-on.

    Jerry Lewis obituary

  • Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor

    Jerry Lewis: a life in pictures

  • Jerry Lewis in 1959.

    Jerry Lewis, king of comedy, dies at 91

December 2016

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    Jerry Lewis proves continued vitality with wildly difficult interview

    The 90-year-old comedian took part in the Hollywood Reporter’s edition on nonagenarians still working in the industry with a withering seven-minute video

October 2016

  • 1965, YOYO ; YO YO<br>PIERRE ETAIX Film 'YOYO ; YO YO' (1965) Directed By PIERRE ETAIX 18 May 1965 SSN54111 Allstar Collection/MAGNA **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use.

    Pierre Etaix obituary

    Film director and actor who kept the tradition of slapstick alive

September 2016

  • Film Still: Jerry Lewis and Kerry Bishe in Max Rose

    First look review
    Max Rose review – scant few laughs in Jerry Lewis' lacklustre last hurrah

    The comedy veteran does his best with the material, playing a grieving widower who discovers his wife’s secret affair, but it’s hard to dress up a turkey

October 2015

  • Jerry Lewis and Martin Scorsese

    Jerry Lewis talks to Martin Scorsese in New York: 'Comedy comes out of pain'

    Martin Scorsese welcomed the 89-year-old comedian into the Comedy Hall of Fame at a New York film festival gala, where they talked clowning, calling the shots as director and working with the biggest stars in Hollywood. But it wasn’t all serious…
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