Arts & Culture: Film
In film
Motherhood, madness and melodrama
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 27 November
Heavy-handed direction turns one woman's ordeal into a sensationalist affair
Changeling (15)
dir: Clint Eastwood
Thanks for the memories
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 20 November
An unsettling and inspired exploration of how the trauma of war affects the mind
Waltz With Bashir (18)
dir: Ari Folman
007 Bolivian socialist?
- By Emma Felber
- 14 November
The plot of the Quantum of Solace makes reference to a real struggle carried out by the social movements of Bolivia - but it wasn't an action hero that secured changes, it was ordinary people
The age of uncertainty
- By Tim Adams
- 13 November
The painters and photographers of the First World War were resolutely on the side of the ordinary soldier. Today, artists have an ambiguous attitude to conflict in the Middle East, and struggle to express its true horrors
No place like home
- By Rebecca Davies
- 13 November
Fernando Meirelles has made his name with films inspired by the turmoil in his native Brazil. He tells Rebecca Davies why Hollywood can't compete with this golden age of Latin American cinema
Killing to be cool
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 13 November
Black-leather glam over-romanticises the real story of this 1970s guerrilla gang
The Baader Meinhof Complex (18) dir: Uli Edel
Feature
An odyssey in black and white
A season of vintage South African films takes us on an atmospheric - if occasionally bizarre - journey back through the dark days of apartheid
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Misunderestimating George
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 06 November 2008
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- By Ryan Gilbey
- 30 October 2008
Queen of outrage
- By Alice O'Keeffe
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- By Ryan Gilbey
- 23 October 2008
Creator and critic
- By David Thomson
- 23 October 2008
That superior feeling
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 16 October 2008
An offer you can't refuse
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 09 October 2008


