Other lives: Leading figure in Contemporary Films, a London-based distribution company that championed arthouse movies
August 2023
20 greatest Venice film festival Golden Lion winners – ranked!
With the 80th instalment of the festival on the Lido around the corner, we sort through the winners of one of cinema’s most prestigious accolades
July 2022
The Big City review – Satyajit Ray’s miraculous look at a new world of possibility
The Guardian view on Satyajit Ray: a genius of cinema
December 2021
Solid Ivory by James Ivory review – an Oscar-winning film director tells all
Though more focused on flirtations and finery than the craft of film-making, there is much to enjoy in this entertaining ragbag
March 2021
The stage on screen
Shakespeare Wallah: Merchant Ivory's bittersweet tale of Bollywood and the Bard
The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupe
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
Day Shall Dawn: rare chance to see Pakistan's lost avant-garde classic
This landmark film, about Bengali fisherfolk fighting to survive in a world of hunger and loan sharks, is finally getting its due
May 2016
Shortcuts
A blagger’s guide to Bollywood for Zac Goldsmith
The Conservative London mayoral candidate – and supposed Bollywood enthusiast – couldn’t name a single film or actor from the genre. Here’s a quick cheat sheet
November 2015
Saeed Jaffrey obituary
Engaging actor known for his many film and TV roles which included parts in The Man Who Would Be King, My Beautiful Laundrette and Coronation Street
October 2015
Cinema now
Nitin Sawhney interview: ‘Pather Panchali was really moving, with incredible acting’
The musician chooses Satyajit Ray’s classic debut as his all-time favourite
July 2015
On my radar
On my radar: actor Greta Gerwig’s cultural highlights
The mumblecore star on Colm Tóibín’s writing about poetry, the surprising allure of Peaky Blinders and the restoration of Satyajit Ray’s cinema classics
May 2015
Back on the little road: Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali returns in all its glory
A new restoration of one of the most important works of world cinema has made a stunning return to the Museum of Modern Art, where it premiered in 1955
August 2014
Richard Attenborough and Satyajit Ray
Charulata review – a vitamin boost for the mind and heart
September 2013
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Guy Lodge's DVDs and downloads
In praise of ...
In praise of … Satyajit Ray
August 2013
Philip French's film of the week
The Big City – review
Philip French welcomes the rerelease of Satyajit Ray's enduring 1963 masterpiece about one woman's struggle for independence
The Big City – review
Satyajit Ray's 1963 film about a Calcutta woman blossoming in the world of work is utterly absorbing, writes Peter Bradshaw
Satyajit Ray's film posters – in pictures
An imaginative collection of poster designs by the Bengali film-maker who transformed the face of Indian cinema
