Charlie Chaplin à la Française
Louis de Funès may be France’s most beloved actor. The choice tells us a lot about those who love him
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Getting Away With Murder
A new thriller set in late-Stalinist Soviet Union has alarmed Russian authorities
Bad Manors
A pivotal moment in British movie history — and Bob Hoskins’s greatest performance
Farm Agents
The surprising story of Britain's first animated feature, Animal Farm
Very Young Ladies and the Tramp
Peter Ackroyd's new biography shows that Charlie Chaplin was an incorrigible womaniser but a brilliant innovator
The Best Years of American Cinema
The greatest American movie of all time was made in 1946 and you'll never have heard of it
Poetry in Motion
Judi Dench's embattled M in Skyfall at one point reaches not for a Beretta or one of Q's exploding pens but a few lines of Tennyson. Would the words of Carol Ann
A Vintage Year for Acting
A glut of superb performances in 2012 reflects a rising general standard in the actor’s craft
Demons in the Details
Hollywood and physics should be kept apart — pretty much like matter and anti-matter
Exile on Jermyn Street
Blacklisted by Hollywood, my father Carl Foreman made a new life in Britain. But he never forsook the country of his birth, says Jonathan Foreman Funerals feel more natural in the winter.
Bad Beyond Imagination
Bernhard Schlink's novel, The Reader, is both artistically and morally fraudulent. The oscar-winning film that sprung from it is no better
Mumbai: On the ‘Slumdog’ Trail
Standpoint‘s Writer-At-Large visits the slums of Mumbai to assess the Oscar-winning film The Mumbai slums where Danny Boyle shot Slumdog Millionaire are a world of surprises. There are the gaggles of uniformed