Spider-Man: No Way Home to A Knight’s Tale: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Web-slingers assemble in the wildly entertaining Marvel blockbuster, and Heath Ledger excels in the role that marked him out as a leading man
May 2020
Lockdown watch
Claes Bang: 'I've been watching a great Danish show … what was it called?'
'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies
August 2017
Stage direction: North By Northwest takes Hollywood to the theatre
A theatrical adaptation of the Hitchcock classic finds clever ways to rework film techniques – and is the latest example of how the screen is influencing the stage
May 2017
Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown 'changed my life'
At the height of his fame, Cary Grant turned to LSD therapy for help. He later claimed the drug saved him, but did it also spell the end of his career?
May 2015
Goodfellas to Ghost: a movie scout's favourite New York City film locations – in pictures
Classic diners, fake benches and a car chase scene you’d never get permission to shoot today... location scout Nick Carr tours us around his favourite uses of New York City in the movies
September 2013
Why I love ...
Why I love … North By Northwest's crop-duster scene
Tola Onanuga: The suspense of Cary Grant's unflappable businessman on the run from a low-flying plane is the stand-out moment in Hitchcock's stand-out thriller
May 2013
Film blog
Saul Bass title sequences: ten of the best
Saul Bass was the master of the title sequence, working on such films as Anatomy of a Murder, North by Northwest and Goodfellas. Here's ten of his finest
January 2013
The 10 best ...
The 10 best movie manhunts
As the Osama bin Laden pursuit movie Zero Dark Thirty joins the chase for Oscars, we recall other runaway successes
October 2012
Martin Landau: From North by Northwest to Frankenweenie
Assassination at the movies
August 2012
The quiz
The Weekend Quiz
My favourite Hitchcock film
My favourite Hitchcock: North by Northwest
July 2012
My favourite Hitchcock film
My Favourite Hitchcock: The 39 Steps
Tony Paley: Before Psycho and North by Northwest, Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps was serving up some of cinema's most seminal moments. Here is a handful of highlights from the film
March 2011
Source Code delivers visceral thrills as it kickstarts SXSW festival
Film starring Jake Gyllenhaal follows in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock and offers reminders of North by Northwest, the movie that inspired the naming of this Texas festival
(Cert 12A)
October 2010
The 25 best action and war films of all time
North By Northwest: No 2 best action and war film of all time
Alfred Hitchcock, 1959
August 2010
Robert Boyle obituary
Hollywood production designer who worked with Alfred Hitchcock on North By Northwest
June 2009
Film blog
Can we forgive North by Northwest its Da Vinci Code legacy?
The films based on Dan Brown's books owe a serious debt to Hitchcock's classic. But don't overlook North by Northwest's darkness and modernity - not to mention the suits
North by Northwest
Celebrating 50 years of being superb, witty, stylish, yet ever so chilling and strange in a welcome rerelease, says Jason Solomons
North By Northwest
The romcom suspense caper is a recipe that Alfred Hitchcock took to his grave, writes Peter Bradshaw
