Don’t blame us! Are James Bond trigger warnings really for audiences’ benefit?
Peter Bradshaw
Licence to offend: BFI season gives James Bond films trigger warnings
July 2023
Jane Birkin obituary
Singer and actor who duetted with Serge Gainsbourg on Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus in 1969 and went on to a prolific film career
December 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Walkabout and William Hurt?
The DH Lawrence classic inexorably leads to violent UK theatre, a stunning John Barry soundtrack and the erotic thriller Body Heat
July 2022
Ranked
Volcano films – ranked!
Missing the heatwave? With the release of Sara Dosa’s hotly tipped new documentary Fire of Love, we round up the most epic, exploding-mountain movies ever made
April 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why A View to a Kill isn't a bad movie
The latest in our series defending loathed movies is a plea to reconsider Sir Roger Moore’s silly but superb Bond swansong
July 2020
Don Black: 'the Pele of lyricists' on Bond themes, Broadway and Born Free
He’s written songs with everyone from Quincy Jones to John Barry – though his musical about premature ejaculation was a flop. ‘Everyone’s the same when they sit at the piano,’ he reveals
April 2017
This much I know
Jane Birkin: ‘I learned French off a tape recorder. All the French people laughed’
The singer and actor, 70, on sexy pictures, Glenda Jackson and her first concert – at the Bataclan
September 2015
Film blog
Sam Smith's Spectre song could be a return to classic Bond themes
Writing’s on the Wall, first theme by British male solo vocalist since Tom Jones in 1965, could hark back to 60s hits
September 2013
Soundtrack of my life
Bob Stanley: soundtrack of my life
The Saint Etienne co-founder talks to Tom Lamont about the 80s, the joy of sampling, and rediscovering pre-rock'n'roll crooners
January 2013
My family values
Jane Birkin: My family values
The singer and actor talks about her family. By Anita Sethi
October 2012
My favourite Bond film
My favourite Bond film: You Only Live Twice
My favourite Bond film
My favourite Bond film: Goldfinger
December 2011
Obituaries of 2011
John Barry remembered by David Arnold
The veteran composer left millions of movie fans moved by his death in January at the age of 77, writes friend and fellow Bond composer David Arnold
November 2011
Philip French's classic DVD
Hammett
A stylish dose of neo-noir brings writer/detective Dashiell Hammett back to drinking, smoking, typewriter-bashing life, writes Philip French
March 2011
Music blog
Elizabeth Taylor in London soundtrack danced to the rebel screen queen's tune
Rob Fitzpatrick: Composed by John Barry, the 1963 TV film's soundtrack is a fitting tribute to Hollywood's first rock'n'roll starlet
February 2011
Billy no-mates
Letters: Also, it may have launched Michael Crawford's musical theatre career, but it came after Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and Crawford's Billy Liar was pure Frank Spencer
The Northerner
The Northerner: Lake District sticks together over forest sell-off
Welcome to the Northerner, the Guardian's weekly digest of the best of the northern press
Shortcuts
I was John Barry's No 1 fan, says Jerry Sadowitz
The comedian Jerry Sadowitz was thrilled when he could sit in on an album recording with his idol, the late John Barry
January 2011
John Barry, Bond films' man with the golden tunes, dies aged 77
Composer best known for James Bond music won five Oscars and scored more than 100 films
