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The Long Good Friday

March 2024

  • Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    All of Us Strangers to Out of Sight: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Andrew Haigh’s emotionally wrenching ode to regret, love and redemption with an all captivating leads in Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, while George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez sizzle in Steven Soderbergh crime caper

July 2023

  • Curved Air Pop Group In 1971. Darryl Way Sonja Kristina And Francis Monkman.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Phillip Jackson/ANL/Shutterstock (1347194a) Curved Air Pop Group In 1971. Darryl Way Sonja Kristina And Francis Monkman. Curved Air Pop Group In 1971. Darryl Way Sonja Kristina And Francis Monkman.

    Francis Monkman obituary

    Multi-instrumentalist with Curved Air and Sky who composed the soundtrack to The Long Good Friday

April 2023

  • Patti Love in 1978.

    Letter: Patti Love obituary

    Tom Stubbs writes: Patti Love’s two brief appearances in The Long Good Friday are characterised by a remarkably high emotional intensity

April 2021

  • Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren in The Long Good Friday.

    'They cut the beheading scene': The Long Good Friday, remembered by Helen Mirren and co-stars

    Prophetic, frenetic and shockingly brutal, the film became a British classic. For its 40th anniversary, Mirren and other cast members relive their roles in the menacing gangland masterpiece

June 2020

  • Pierce Brosnan in The World is Not Enough

    Ranked
    The greatest film scenes shot on the River Thames – ranked!

    As a new David Attenborough documentary examines the waterway’s history, we rate the river’s finest movie cameos

December 2019

  • The Long Good Friday, starring Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins.

    Barrie Keeffe obituary

  • Playwright Barrie Keeffe

    Long Good Friday writer Barrie Keeffe dies aged 74

July 2019

  • Bryan Marshall as Captain Wentworth in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, 1971.

    Bryan Marshall obituary

    Character actor admired for his role in the London gangster film The Long Good Friday

April 2019

  • Hamming it up … George Harrison cameos in Life of Brian, with Eric Idle and John Cleese.

    How George Harrison – and a very naughty boy – saved British cinema

    The Beatle loved Monty Python so much, he set up HandMade Films to make Life of Brian – and rehabilitated the UK movie industry. But the studio’s fun couldn’t last

July 2015

  • 1980, THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Long Good Friday/Mona Lisa review – captivating visions of London’s underworld

    Bob Hoskins assures his place in cinema history with these complementary visions of London’s underworld

June 2015

  • Jurassic World

    Box office analysis: UK
    Jurassic World claws victory from Potter and Bond to make UK box office history

  • 140x84 trailpic for What to Watch Long Good Friday

    What you should watch this week
    Why you should watch The Long Good Friday this week - video review

July 2014

  • The Long Good Friday starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren

    Role model
    Why I'd like to be … Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday

    I don't want to hang anyone from a meat hook, but I need a bit of Harold Shand's authority. He's a man who gets things done, writes Tim Cooke

October 2010

  • Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday

    The 25 best crime films of all time
    The Long Good Friday: No 20 best crime film of all time

    John Mackenzie, 1980

May 2007

  • Film blog
    The Long Good Friday: to the manor born

    Who cares if it gets remade by Hollywood? The original will always be Britain's greatest gangster movie anyway.

September 2006

  • The Long Good Friday

    (Cert 18)

March 2000

  • Win tickets to The Long Good Friday screening and interview

    A vibrant portrait of London's underbelly as a decade of Thatcherism dawns, The Long Good Friday has established itself as a benchmark for the London gangster movie. Released 20 years ago this year, the movie features Bob Hoskins, who excels himself as East End villain Harry Shand, contending with the American Mafia and gangland wars. Also starring are Helen Mirren, and look out for a brief appearance by none other than Pierce Brosnan.

February 2000

  • So long, Good Friday

  • Hanging around: an iconic scene from The Long Good Friday.

    Hanging around in the hood: the legacy of The Long Good Friday

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